🚀 Discover this awesome post from Culture Latest đź“– đź“‚ Category: Culture,Culture / Movies,Culture Guides âś… Key idea: Netflix has plenty of movies to watch. Maybe too many. Sometimes finding the right film at the right time can seem like an impossible task. Let us help you. Below is a list of some of our favorites currently on the streaming service—from dramas to comedies to thrillers.If you decide you’re in more of a TV mood, head over to our collection of the best TV series on Netflix. Want more? Check out our lists of the best sci-fi movies, best movies…
✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ Category: Music,Culture,Electronic music 📌 Key idea: IIn 1982, London-based Sikh devotional singer Mohinder Kaur Bhamra recorded True Strangeness. Accompanied by her son Kuljit on early Roland drums and synthesizers, the pair lay down nine tracks of Punjabi folk singing backed by hammering electronic percussion, disco basslines and synth melody. Only 500 copies of the resulting album Punjabi Disco were pressed. It was released amid confusion from a diaspora audience accustomed to bhangra bombast. In the decades since, rare LPs have turned up on resale sites, but Colgate's recent…
✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ Category: Music,Metal,Punk,Culture,Pop and rock âś… Main takeaway: HeyOn a Wednesday evening in September, about 6,000 people crossed footbridges to reach Brown's Island, a country park located in the middle of the James River in Richmond, Virginia. They're here to see Turnstile, the Baltimore band that came from the hardcore punk underground but whose reach extends beyond this world.Turnstile takes the stage to a slew of shimmering keyboards – provided by Never Enough, the lead single from their new album. It's a slow song by Turnstile's standards, a tender…
✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ Category: Theatre,Arcola theatre,Stage,Culture âś… Main takeaway: TThe rosary is whipped within seconds. God-fearing Alanna (Rachel Rooney, her movements angular like a frightened bird) is scrubbing the cook with a toothbrush when her muddy-booted, foul-mouthed, IRA-recruited little sister Vianna (Megan Tyler, also the play's writer, brutality written all over her) bursts through the window of their childhood home. This gritty revenge play has a flair for chaos, transforming poignant domestic drama into surreal and horrific horror.This new production premiered at Edinburgh's Traverse in 2019 and is set during a…
🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ Category: Fiction,Books,Culture,Short stories 📌 Key idea: Drip catcherCarpet hangers disappeared from backyards when wall-to-wall carpeting and vacuum cleaners were introduced—when Persian carpets were bombed, when there was no money to buy new carpets, when the men who used to carry folded carpets down stairs to clean them were killed in the war.The shop where I used to take my tights to be repaired when they were torn, when I was a little girl - a shop called Run Express - disappeared when the wall came down and the…
🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ Category: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Musicals,Music 📌 Main takeaway: TThe piano is filled with feathers to reduce noise. Irving Berlin loved to write at night, and feathers were his way of dampening the strings so as not to disturb the neighbors. It is also filled with feathers, in Jane Livingstone's play on the writing and effect of a White Christmas, to indicate the impending snowfall – although curiously, when the odd ending comes, it is a flurry of regular snow on the stage.It is also strange that a play about the world's…
🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ Category: Music,Americana,Gillian Welch,David Rawlings,Culture âś… Main takeaway: TThe huge Apollo Theater only contains a chair and a table, on which two drinks are placed and a very small speaker, but Gillian Welch and David Rawlings do not need showmanship. Later, when Rawlings plays the harmonica, his musical partner quips: "That's all you get by changing costumes from us." The "show" comes in playing and performance and 23 songs cast a magical spell for (including interlude and encore) just under three hours.After playing on each other's albums for years,…
🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ Category: Stage,Television,Culture,Television & radio,Australian television,TV comedy,Comedy,Comedy âś… Main takeaway: What is the longest word you can form from the letters ARDALOHANLON in 30 seconds?The word "anal" comes to mind, because I was doing a show in Limerick, Ireland and the stage manager actually thought my name was Anal. He contacted me via Tannoy [PA system]: "Can anal come to the stage door?" But there has to be a bigger word than that. I'm usually good at counting down. This is very annoying. This is how I define myself…
🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ Category: Television,Television & radio,Film,Culture,US news 📌 Key idea: Acclaimed actress June Lockhart, known for her work in film and television, has died at the age of 100.She died Thursday night of natural causes, with her daughter, June Elizabeth, and granddaughter, Christiana, by her side, according to People magazine.Family spokesman Lyle Gregory, a friend of 40 years, told the Associated Press: "She was very happy until the end, and she read the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times every day. It was very important to her to…
🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian đź“– đź“‚ Category: Bob Vylan,Israel-Gaza war,British Airways,UK news,Music 📌 Main takeaway: British Airways has stopped sponsorship of Louis Theroux's podcast due to an interview with singer Bob Phelan.The airline pulled its ads from the journalist's podcast after he interviewed Bobby Phelan - whose real name is Pascal Robinson-Foster.In the video, Phelan said he “does not regret” the chants of “Death, death to the Israeli army.” [Israel Defense Forces]during a performance at Glastonbury Festival this summer. He said he would "do it again tomorrow."British Airways told PA Media that the podcast…
