๐ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: History books,Books,US politics,Donald Trump,Culture,US news โ
**What Youโll Learn**: 'AโAlmost everyone is more or less in love with the United States of America,โ says Edward Sturton in his introduction to Made in America.. Why not? It is a land of dazzle and ideals, of jazz, of Bogart and Bacall, of Harriet Tubman and Hamilton, a nation that was anti-colonial and pro-liberty from its conception, and whose Declaration of Independence declared that "all men are created equal." Why then does this same country so often produce clown…
โจ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Television,Culture,Drama,Television & radio ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Lynley8.30pm on BBC OneLeo Suter (Sanditon, Vikings: Valhalla) dons DI Tommy Lynley heels in this 2000s remake of the series, based on the novels by Elizabeth George. Lynley is paired with working-class DS Barbara Havers (Sophia Barclay), who thinks he's just a "fresh-faced city boy who doesn't know his ass from his elbow." But as the chalk and cheese duo continue to solve the first murder case, can their work prove that they are the dream team? Holly RichardsonCorydale8pm on…
โจ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Podcasts โ
**What Youโll Learn**: Brian Badmond's podcastFonejacker and Facejacker Kayvan Novak is back with this extremely silly series, in which he brings to life one of his most famous characters: failed art critic Brian Badonde. Interviewees include "podcaster" Adam Buxton and singer Ella Eyre, who - despite her podcaster style and inability to correctly pronounce any words that don't start with ab - gives a frank account of her time in the music industry. Hannah J. DavisWidely available, weekly episodesFamily secretsFans of the likes…
๐ฅ Check out this must-read post from Culture Latest ๐ ๐ **Category**: Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,EXPIRED/TIRED/WIRED ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Anyone looking for A lively examination of residents' current sentiments about AI would be best served by checking the walls of New York City's subway system. This fall, along with posters for everything from dating apps to Skechers, a newcomer debuted: the boyfriend. The ads were simple, telling passengers that a โfriendโ is someone who โlistens, responds, and supports youโ next to an image of an accompanying white AI-powered pendant floating on a similar white background.It was the perfect graffiti…
๐ฅ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Horror films,Daisy Ridley,Film,Culture,Zombies,Drama films ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: ShUnlike some other, less malleable horror subgenres, the zombie movie will never truly die. And the filmmakers won't try to add their own twist, which is understandable given how repetitive the die, wake, wood, bite, repeat formula has become. Australian director Zak Hilditch's somewhat subdued attempt, We Bury the Dead, is not quite as striking as it seemed a decade ago and changed a decade ago. Using words like "meditative" and "sad" to describe a movie that includes its…
๐ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Film,Animation in film,Culture,Family films,Theatre,Stage,Lord of the Rings ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: Your latest role is the Squid Queen in The Pout-Pout Fish; If you could be a fish for a day, which one would it be and why?The Blue Groper at Clovelly Beach โ because it looks like an institution, people go there to see it. I think it's great to have a local fish that people go to and see and talk about - it's a special fish.What movie do you always go back to, and…
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**What Youโll Learn**: IIt is difficult to imagine a better path to true philosophical inquiry than spending time in prison. Remorse, causality, and the nature of freedom: these are pressing issues for prisoners. Time is impossibly empty and passes terrifyingly quickly. You experience endless days and nights with only the inside of your head for company. You are at the extreme end of practical philosophy, whether you like it or not. What is life for? Can it be changed for the better?Accordingly, teaching…
๐ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Books,Culture,Fiction,Heart attack,Health ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: HeyOn the evening of Monday 1 February 2021, during the third coronavirus lockdown, my wife Alexa and I sat on the sofa eating hot dogs and chips in front of the TV. The kids were cranky, and we were tired of trying to homeschool them while working from home, me as a music industry lawyer and Alexa as a charity fundraiser. But at least, Alexa told me, we made it through January.Then it started making strange noises. "Are you kidding?" I…
๐ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Music,Pop and rock,Culture โ
**What Youโll Learn**: IIn November, Dominic Harrison, known as Yungblud, received three Grammy nominations. The news that he has become the first British artist in history to be nominated multiple times in the awards' rock categories came as a stunning finale to what has been, by all accounts, an exceptional year for the 28-year-old singer-songwriter.In June, his fourth studio album, Idols, entered the UK charts at number one, beating its closest competitor by 50%. In the same month, his annual festival and…
โจ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Simon Stone,Theatre,Adelaide festival,Stage,Culture ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: IIf Simon Stone had not intended to become a world-renowned theater and film director, he might have followed his parents into science, and might have stayed in Melbourne where he spent much of his childhood.โAustralia would have had everything I needed,โ he says, although the passionate, youthful-looking, bearded writer-director gave the impression during our interview that Europe would still have retained its appeal.Stone, 41, is speaking to me from Vienna, where he lived for eight years until moving to London…
