๐ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: US news,Young people,Society,Magazines,Media,ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement),US politics,Culture ๐ Hereโs what youโll learn: On a cloudy Saturday afternoon, the Los Angeles Central Public Library was bustling with nearly 100 people making zines: little DIY journals made from a single piece of paper. There was folding and laughter and helping with wounds. Titles such as Narcan 101, Free Palestine and American Zain, filled with illustrations and tips, line a table down the hall.While this may seem like a scene from the 1980s or 1990s โ when music…
โจ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Bob Vylan,Ireland,Defamation law,Law,Europe,Media law,Media,Music,Israel-Gaza war,Glastonbury 2025,Glastonbury festival,Culture,World news ๐ก Key idea: British punk and rap duo Bob Phelan have launched defamation proceedings against Irish broadcaster RTร over its coverage of their Glastonbury performance.The legal action alleges that Irish National Radio defamed the group by claiming they led anti-Semitic chants at the festival last June.The group's lead singer, Pascal Robinson-Foster, known as Bobby Phelan, led a chant of "Death, death to the IDF", a reference to the Israel Defense Forces, making international headlines and prompting a British police…
๐ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Paris,France,Museums,Europe,World news,Culture ๐ Main takeaway: The thieves who stole the Crown Jewels from the Louvre Museum in October managed to evade police with just 30 seconds to spare due to an avoidable security failure at the Paris museum, a damning investigation has revealed.The investigation, ordered by the Ministry of Culture after the embarrassing daylight robbery, revealed that only one of two security cameras was working near the site where the intruders broke into the morning of Sunday, October 19.The report, details of which were made public…
๐ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Books,Sophie Kinsella,Culture,Romance books,Fiction ๐ก Hereโs what youโll learn: Madeleine Wickham, best known for writing the best-selling novel Confessions of a Shopaholic under her pseudonym Sophie Kinsella, has died at the age of 55.Wickham, whom novelist Jojo Moyes called the "Queen of Romantic Comedies," has written more than 30 books for adults, children and teens, which have sold more than 45 million copies.In April 2024, Wickham announced that she had been diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain cancer, at the end of 2022, and underwent radiotherapy…
๐ฅ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Quentin Tarantino,Film,Paul Thomas Anderson,Paul Dano,Culture ๐ Main takeaway: Has Quentin Tarantino put Paul Dano in the alpha league of the world's most beloved and admired film actors?His latest insults targeting Dano have sparked a torrent of defensive praise, publicly endorsed by Daniel Day-Lewis, Dano's costar in "There Will Be Blood." But was Tarantino's statement just a fluffy threat? Will he end up casting Dano in his next film โ a U-turn like Donald Trump did to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after he threatened him with…
๐ฅ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Film,Philippines,China,Documentary films,Asia Pacific,Culture,World news,Fishing industry ๐ Key idea: DDuring a televised debate in 2016, populist presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte made a typically combative statement in which he said he would personally go to Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea and plant a Philippine flag there. Duterte claimed that he was ready to die a hero to keep the Chinese out of the hotly contested maritime region.โHe made millions of Filipino workers and fishermen vote for him because of that one promise,โ says director Babe Ruth Villarama.…
โจ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Games,Culture,Naomi Alderman,Zombies,Mobile games ๐ Hereโs what youโll learn: A A few days ago, I clicked a button on my phone to send money to a company in Singapore, thus taking ownership of the video game I co-created and am the head writer of: Zombies, Run! I'm a novelist who wrote the best-selling, award-winning book Power, which was made into an Amazon Prime TV series starring Toni Collette. What on earth do I do when I buy a gaming company?Good. Firstly. Zombies, run! private. It's special to me…
๐ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Sundance film festival,US news,Charli xcx,Olivia Colman,Salman Rushdie,Brittney Griner,Natalie Portman,Festivals,Culture,Olivia Wilde,Seth Rogen,Penรฉlope Cruz,Ethan Hawke,Marianne Faithfull,Jenna Ortega,Utah ๐ก Hereโs what youโll learn: New films starring Charli XCX, Natalie Portman and Salman Rushdie will make their world premieres at the Sundance Film Festival next month.The festival will be held for the last time in Park City, Utah, before moving to Boulder, Colorado in 2027. Over the years, it has been home to premieres of films including Get Out, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Blair Witch Project, Past Lives, Napoleon…
๐ฅ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: Turner prize,Art,Art and design,Culture,Awards and prizes โ
Key idea: TThe morning after the Turner Prize ceremony, the winner of the UK's most prestigious art award, Nina Callow, was eating toast and drinking a strong cup of tea. Everyone around her was delighted โ only slightly worse after dancing with their feet at the previous night's party in Bradford, and drinking "a couple of brandies" in the hotel bar. I say hello to Kalo, offer congratulations, and admire the 59-year-old's beautifully manicured cream-pink nails. But the interview was…
๐ฅ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ Category: James L Brooks,Film,Culture,Jamie Lee Curtis,Woody Harrelson,Jack Lowden,Comedy films,Rebecca Hall,Comedy,Drama films ๐ Main takeaway: eNo McKay, a new comedy-drama written and directed by James L. Brooks, feels like a relic, and not just because it's set, seemingly arbitrarily, in 2008. It's broadly appealing, well-cast, and neither exactly comedic nor melodramatic, as far as regular people in non-IP circumstances are concerned, it's the kind of mid-budget adult film that regularly appeared in theaters in the 1990s and early 2000s, before the streaming wars gobbled up the market. Even its…
