π₯ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Harry Styles,Pop and rock,Music,Culture β
**What Youβll Learn**: THis answers to some small questions are very revealing. We think of it as just small talk, but asking someone's first thing often reveals everything you need to know about who they are today and why. If only I had understood the implications of purchasing Black Lace's Wig Wam Bam as my first music purchase - I'd have known it would shape a lot of future interactions and realized how ridiculous it feels to simply say those words, even…
β¨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Film,Mel Brooks,Comedy films,TV comedy,Larry David,The Elephant Man,Comedy,Culture,Television,Television & radio π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: MThe story of L. Brooks is the story of American comedy, Jews, and Jewish-American comedy. He was born on the kitchen table of a Brooklyn tenement a century ago, the same month that Marilyn Monroe entered her home on the opposite coast. Brooks is the son of European immigrants, and was raised by his mother after his father died when Melvin was just two years old. He was a small, sickly child and the…
π Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Rap,Bad Bunny,Music,Culture,Pop and rock π **What Youβll Learn**: MIn the middle of the biggest British concert ever by a Latin American artist, a giant cartoon frog appears on the big screens and warns the audience who can't speak Spanish: "You're missing the message." The giant cartoon frog has a point. Bad Bunny engages in a lengthy conversation between songs, delivered in his native language, that apparently covers everything from the recent earthquake in Venezuela to what appear to be subtly pointed observations about the importance of…
β¨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Books,Fiction,Miranda July,Culture,Rachel Cusk,Elizabeth Jane Howard,Lucy Ellmann π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: 'TβThere's no place like home,β Dorothy declares at the end of The Wizard of Oz, as she leaves the dazzling Emerald City for Aunt Em's farm in Kansas. It's a powerful metaphor for the way the domestic sphere is often depicted in art: action, adventure and drama happen 'out there' in glorious technicolor tones, with the home contrastingly presented in sober sepia tones. Home may finally be the place we long for, but only once we've left…
π Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: David Sedaris,Books,Culture,Languages,Education,AI (artificial intelligence),Computing,Technology,Apps π **What Youβll Learn**: Hugh and I were driving from Washington, DC, to the Sea Section, our house on the coast of North Carolina, when I noticed a dot with legs traversing the hem of my untucked shirt. βThereβs aΒ tick on me!β I said.He looked down at my lap. βWell, throw it outside. Itβs nothing to get hysterical about.ββIβm not βhystericalβ,β I told him. βI just didnβt expect to find a tick in a rental car, is all.βWe had a long drive…
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**What Youβll Learn**: I I'm six years old, and I watch a man turn into a werewolf. The film is Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, a 1948 comedy. I stare at our black-and-white television as I focus on the werewolf transformation unfolding in slow motion and I begin screaming so unbearably that my parents have to carry me upstairs to calm me down.That night was the beginning of my constant fear of horror movies and supernatural phenomena, of the dark, and of being alone…
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**What Youβll Learn**: The first song I fell in love withWhen I was a little boy, we had a caravan on the Isle of Sheppey, and I remember hearing George Harrison's My Sweet Lord one summer's day. It's about the search for God, and I've always thought the way it goes from Hallelujah to Hare Krishna is really beautiful.First song I boughtBig Time by Rick James of Paul's Music on Cambridge Heath Road, London. Even at a young age, I loved…
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**What Youβll Learn**: M"Chromatic Light (Afterlife)" by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey requires patience. The work, subtitled "Meditation on Morton Feldman's Rothko Church," uses a similar ensemble β percussion, keyboards, viola, chorus, and solo voice β and a similarly abstract dialogue of rhythms and tones for Feldman's 1971 homage to the American painter. But while Feldman's meditative soundscape lasts a half-hour, the monochromatic lightness stretches across 80 minutes and only reveals in its final bars a second vital pillar in African American…
π₯ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Exhibitions,Peckham,London,Society β
**What Youβll Learn**: IIn 1986, an exhibition called Chambres d'Amis took contemporary art beyond the confines of the museum and into the homes of 58 residents in Ghent. Forty years later, a similar experiment is taking place, but in a small street in Peckham, south-east London.Neighbors Rooms is the brainchild of curator Ben Broome, who came across Chambres d'Amis while between corporate functions. With time and a desire to get to know his neighbors better, he began to wonder how he could apply…
π₯ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Television & radio,Culture π **What Youβll Learn**: Taylor: A Love Story11pm on Channel 4The Taylor Swift industry is one of the most interesting cultural phenomena of our time. Ahead of rumors of her marriage to Travis Kelce this month, this documentary is a testament to that: an unashamedly antisocial and at times painfully serious deep dive into Swift's romantic history. From Jonas to Lautner to Styles to Alwyn, there are a few that might inspire Swifties. But it's great to remember the ways in which it served…
