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Robert Plant Saving Grace review – The self-effacing megastar still looks amazing | Robert Plant

Robert Plant Saving Grace review – The self-effacing megastar still looks amazing | Robert Plant

๐Ÿš€ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Robert Plant,Music,Culture,Pop and rock,Folk music,Led Zeppelin,Southbank Centre โœ… Key idea: forBetween songs, Robert Plant describes his latest project, Saving Grace, as hailing "from the West Side of common sense." It's a self-effacing observation but he has a point. Most rock stars of his caliber and stature (78 next year, somewhere between 200 million and 300 million albums sold with Led Zeppelin) would be there to assert their status by touring hits. But as anyone who followed Plant's post-Zeppelin career will tell you, the live option didn't seem…
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โ€œIf we build it, they will comeโ€: Skovd, the small town that helped Sweden’s video game boom | games

โ€œIf we build it, they will comeโ€: Skovd, the small town that helped Sweden’s video game boom | games

โœจ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Games,Culture,Sweden ๐Ÿ’ก Hereโ€™s what youโ€™ll learn: HeyOn March 26, 2014, a trailer for the video game appeared on YouTube. The first thing the viewer sees is a close-up of a goat lying on the ground with its tongue out and its eyes open. Behind him is a man engulfed in fire, running backwards in slow motion towards a house. These images are interspersed with footage showing goats being repeatedly run over by a car. In the main shot, the goat now appears backwards as well, and flies…
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Playboy of the Western World review โ€“ Nicola Coughlan brings comedy and tragedy to this pub drama | National Theater

Playboy of the Western World review โ€“ Nicola Coughlan brings comedy and tragedy to this pub drama | National Theater

๐Ÿš€ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: National Theatre,Stage,Culture,Theatre,Nicola Coughlan,Siobhรกn McSweeney โœ… Key idea: eWomen love a bad boy, or so the cliche goes. This is where the matter is put to the test when Christy Mahon enters a pub to confess that he killed his father with an agricultural implement. This is not quite the truth, but, to his own surprise, he has turned into a local celebrity. Women flock to see him and men hail him as a hero.John Millington Synge's comically unromantic depiction of a farming community in the west of…
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Review by Pavel Kolesnikov โ€“ Gifted Sound Sculptor | classical music

Review by Pavel Kolesnikov โ€“ Gifted Sound Sculptor | classical music

๐Ÿš€ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Classical music,Culture,Music,Wigmore Hall ๐Ÿ“Œ Key idea: SPavel Kolesnikov, born in Iberia, rose to prominence after winning the Honens Piano Competition in 2012 in his early 20s. More than a decade later, he has created a mixture of standard concerto performances with small-scale, distinct projects: choreographic collaborations, chamber music partnerships, and imaginatively off-kilter concert programming.In his most recent appearance at Wigmore Hall, where he closed out 18th-century French keyboard music with Chopin, Kolesnikov took to the stage largely hidden behind his hair. He sat up suddenly but was…
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Kylie Minogue has 11th UK album as Christmas No. 1 race heats up | Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue has 11th UK album as Christmas No. 1 race heats up | Kylie Minogue

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Kylie Minogue,UK charts,Music,Pop and rock,Culture,Christmas,UK news ๐Ÿ’ก Hereโ€™s what youโ€™ll learn: Kylie Minogue has achieved her 11th number one album in the UK, putting her on par with David Bowie and Eminem on the all-time greatest albums list.The album, Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped), will sound familiar to her fans: it's a reissue of her 2015 album Kylie Christmas (which only reached No. 12), and contains four newly recorded tracks and a revised tracklist. It has been re-released once before, in 2016, as The Snow Queen Edition. However,…
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A jaded, hard-drinking Supergirl? This could be a major blow for James Gunn in the DCU| film

A jaded, hard-drinking Supergirl? This could be a major blow for James Gunn in the DCU| film

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Film,James Gunn,DC Comics,Superman,Culture โœ… Main takeaway: SEver since James Gunn's Superman became the biggest superhero film at the box office this summer, the world has been waiting to see what the rest of the DCU sandbox will look like. Now, with the first trailer for Supergirl, we have our first proper glimpse. Based on this evidence, the new Kara Zor-El lives in a brave new world of gods and monsters, reflecting her loneliness and anger towards her.Millie Alcock's Woman of Tomorrow may be unlike anyone we've seen…
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Lurking for Our Girls: Week of Enthusiastic Reviews | culture

Lurking for Our Girls: Week of Enthusiastic Reviews | culture

โœจ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Culture,Television,Film,Books,Music โœ… Main takeaway: televisionIf you only watch one, do it...Our Girls: Southport FamiliesBBC iPlayerSummarize in a sentence A deeply moving documentary that celebrates the lives of the three girls killed in an attack on their dance class last year - and follows the powerful way their parents coped with the tragedy.What our reviewer said โ€œThere have never been children quite like these three, and it is an honor to get to know them a little through home movies and words from their parents.โ€ Jack SealeRead the…
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LSO/Pappano Review โ€“ Musgrave’s Phoenix Rising and Vaughan Williams’ London Stir the Soul | London Symphony Orchestra

LSO/Pappano Review โ€“ Musgrave’s Phoenix Rising and Vaughan Williams’ London Stir the Soul | London Symphony Orchestra

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: London Symphony Orchestra,Music,Culture,Antonio Pappano,Classical music,Barbican โœ… Key idea: AAntonio Pappano's evangelical embrace of British music continued apace with a concert that included a rare piece by Thea Musgrave, a strangely neglected Viola Concerto by William Walton, and the latest in Vaughan Williams' ongoing cycle, the evocative London Symphony.Musgrave, who is still composing at 97, wrote Phoenix Rising in 1997 for the late Andrew Davis, to whom Pappano dedicated this concert. A 23-minute rollercoaster that pits the black drummer and his stick-wielding allies against the devil's horn player…
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Zoe Ball is leaving her role as presenter of her BBC Radio 2 show Zoe Ball

Zoe Ball is leaving her role as presenter of her BBC Radio 2 show Zoe Ball

๐Ÿš€ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Zoe Ball,Television & radio,Culture,Radio 2,BBC,Media,Radio industry,UK news ๐Ÿ’ก Key idea: Zoe Ball has announced that she will be leaving her role as presenter of her BBC Radio 2 show.Speaking on the programme, the 55-year-old said she would be replaced by presenter Emma Willis. Paul will present her last program next Saturday and will continue to present special programs on the station.โ€œI loved being among my dear friends Romesh [Ranganathan] And Rylan [Clark]"You know, I love you all, but I don't just disappear," she said.โ€œObviously it's going to…
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From Eleanor the Great to Emily in Paris: Your complete entertainment guide for the week ahead | culture

From Eleanor the Great to Emily in Paris: Your complete entertainment guide for the week ahead | culture

๐Ÿš€ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ Category: Culture,Music,Stage,Dance,Theatre,Film,Television,Television & radio,Art,Art and design,Games ๐Ÿ’ก Main takeaway: Exit: cinemaEleanor the GreatOut nowJune Squibb stars in Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut, which premiered at Cannes, and tells the story of Eleanor, a senior citizen recently moved to New York, who befriends a 19-year-old โ€” and then stumbles her way into pretending to be a Holocaust survivor.LurkingOut nowA hit at Sundance, the story of an unassuming retail employee who happens to befriend a rising pop star becomes a Boswell for Johnson, if Boswell were part of the pop star's…
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