π₯ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Club culture,Bars, pubs and clubs,Clubbing,Music,Culture,Dance music,New York,US news π Hereβs what youβll learn: WWhen Brooklyn metal band Contract performs around New York, they expect a mosh pit: bodies shoving and jumping to the beat of the music. They also want to make sure the lively, drunk crowd always stays hydrated. Without water, the Musher may feel sick, faint, or faint. βYou don't want anyone to get hurt or hurt,β forward Pele Oriel said.Most of the spaces Uriel plays or visits have water stations where patrons can…
π₯ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Michelle Pfeiffer,Christmas,Jason Schwartzman,ChloΓ« Grace Moretz,Felicity Jones,Comedy films,Comedy,Amazon Prime Video,Film,Culture β
Key idea: IIf you've already overindulged in Netflix's overwhelmingly cheap and cheerful Christmas movies this season, Amazon has something meatier to add to your plate. Like Netflix, it also has enough Hallmark rip-offs that are made simple (step forward, Tyler Perry's Finding Joy), but it's also aiming a little higher with Oh. What. Hazar. It's a more forceful attempt at reminiscing about something we're used to seeing on the big screen rather than the small one with…
β¨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Art and design,Culture,Photography,Paralympics,Paris Paralympic Games 2024,Disability and sport,Sport β
Main takeaway: THis portrait is part of a series commissioned by the Italian Paralympic Committee. They asked me to photograph the country's top athletes ahead of the 2024 Paralympics in Paris. I probably covered 30 different people over the course of three days β I'm a fast shooter. I started out shooting with film, which is still my favorite medium. Even when I shoot digitally, I'm very selective and pay attention to every click.Logistically, it was easier for…
π Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Theatre,Musicals,Stage,Sherman theatre,Culture,Lewis Carroll,Children and teenagers,Books,Christmas shows π‘ Hereβs what youβll learn: WHas a hat happened to Alice? Why is she so angry and where is her Alice band? Alice (Eliane Mae West) before us, in a gray skirt suit, acts like a completely boring adult. Then again, it's no longer in Wonderland: it's post-war Cardiff and a single mother facing some serious issues: a bombed house, a husband lost in the war and a free-spirited daughter, Carys (Marie-Flour), on the brink of adulthood, who wants to…
π₯ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Tom Stoppard,Theatre,Stage,Culture,Belarus Free Theatre,Carrie Cracknell,Political theatre,Old Vic Theatre π‘ Hereβs what youβll learn: βTom said if we want to influence politics, we have to write great plays.βNatalia Kalyada and Nikolai Khalezin, He participated in the founding of the artistic directors of the Belarusian Free TheaterIn 2005, we wrote to Tom Stoppard from inside the tightening grip of what has been described as Europe's last dictatorship. We were building a theater that was not supposed to exist in Belarus. Tom replied almost immediately: "You can count on my…
π₯ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Theatre,Christmas shows,Stage,Christmas,Culture,Children's theatre,Puppetry,Theatre Royal Bath β
Main takeaway: TEgg Theater has created a tradition of festive plays about curious animals. Two years ago, Midnight Mall dug up a Chekhov-inspired cherry orchard. Back in 2019, the irresistibly stylish squirrel, which returns to Unicorn in London next month, was absolutely perfect. But the egg's most enduring Christmas creature is Snow Mouse, the puppet star of a popular show in the early years. It has now been doubled for this new hour-long adventure aimed at slightly older audiences, aged…
π₯ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Games,Culture,Red Dead Redemption,Grand Theft Auto,Grand Theft Auto 5,Dan Houser π‘ Key idea: IIt's hard to think of a more modern entertainment format than the open world video game. These sprawling technological endeavors, blending narrative, sociability and complete freedom to explore, are uniquely immersive and potentially endless. But do they represent a completely new idea of ββstorytelling?This week I caught up with Dan Houser, Rockstar co-founder and lead writer on Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, who was in London to talk about his new company,…
π₯ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Film,Scarlett Johansson,Ageing,Culture,Holocaust,Judaism β
Hereβs what youβll learn: IIt's certainly comforting for anyone still waiting for her big break to know that June Squibb was in her mid-80s before she hit her big time. Her role as a foul-mouthed mother in 2013's Nebraska earned her an Oscar nomination, and she landed her first leading role in the action comedy Thelma last year. Now she stars again in the new film Eleanor the Great and She is currently in rehearsals for a Broadway show. Is Squibb, who has…
β¨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Soho theatre π Main takeaway: TRed flags are raised and waved. This bizarre drama from debut playwright Jess Edwards (director of Hotter and Fitter) leads to a chance encounter in an abusive relationship. Shortlisted for several playwriting awards, the special arrives at a physical manifestation of entanglement theory, where two separate particles become inextricably linked. But there is a little romance here. Our nameless women wrap themselves around each other until none of them can breathe, as interdependence soon gives way to coercion.Our tangled pair are…
π Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π Category: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex,Christmas β
Main takeaway: IIn the top corner of the screen, when With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration opens, there is an age rating: βU - No material that is likely to cause offense or harm.β This may be true in the traditional sense. But I would advise any British viewer, who is not an actor and/or not married to the Duchess of Sussex, to take as many antiemetics as is medically recommended, and then get into crash mode.We open with Megan…
