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I was a whiner, a cynic, a misanthrope. Then I saw Harry Styles live – and I’ll never be the same again Polly Hudson

I was a whiner, a cynic, a misanthrope. Then I saw Harry Styles live – and I’ll never be the same again Polly Hudson

πŸ”₯ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Harry Styles,Pop and rock,Music,Culture βœ… **What You’ll 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…
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Still Burning After All These Years: Mel Brooks at 100 | film

Still Burning After All These Years: Mel Brooks at 100 | film

✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Film,Mel Brooks,Comedy films,TV comedy,Larry David,The Elephant Man,Comedy,Culture,Television,Television & radio πŸ’‘ **What You’ll 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…
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Bad Bunny Review – Dynamic Latin Star Hosts a Hot Party | rap

Bad Bunny Review – Dynamic Latin Star Hosts a Hot Party | rap

πŸš€ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Rap,Bad Bunny,Music,Culture,Pop and rock πŸ“Œ **What You’ll 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…
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Home is where the art is: The rise of the epic domestic novel books

Home is where the art is: The rise of the epic domestic novel books

✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Books,Fiction,Miranda July,Culture,Rachel Cusk,Elizabeth Jane Howard,Lucy Ellmann πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: 'Tβ€œThere's no place like home,” 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…
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David Sedaris on his Duolingo obsession: β€˜β€œToday is the last day,” I told myself – but I was powerless to stop’ | David Sedaris

David Sedaris on his Duolingo obsession: β€˜β€œToday is the last day,” I told myself – but I was powerless to stop’ | David Sedaris

πŸš€ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: David Sedaris,Books,Culture,Languages,Education,AI (artificial intelligence),Computing,Technology,Apps πŸ“Œ **What You’ll 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. β€œThere’s aΒ tick on me!” I said.He looked down at my lap. β€œWell, throw it outside. It’s nothing to get hysterical about.β€β€œI’m not β€˜hysterical’,” I told him. β€œI just didn’t expect to find a tick in a rental car, is all.”We had a long drive…
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I am a psychiatrist who was afraid of horror movies – until I learned about β€œcinematoneurosis”. Horror movies

I am a psychiatrist who was afraid of horror movies – until I learned about β€œcinematoneurosis”. Horror movies

πŸ”₯ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Horror films,Film,Culture,Psychiatry,Psychology βœ… **What You’ll 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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β€œI was only addicted to two things – funk and praise”: Eddie Marsan’s Honest Playlist | Eddie Marsan

β€œI was only addicted to two things – funk and praise”: Eddie Marsan’s Honest Playlist | Eddie Marsan

✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Eddie Marsan,Culture,Music,Pop and rock βœ… **What You’ll 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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Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) Review – Tayshaun Sori’s Meditations Slowly Reveal Her Secrets | classical music

Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) Review – Tayshaun Sori’s Meditations Slowly Reveal Her Secrets | classical music

πŸ”₯ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music,Barbican βœ… **What You’ll 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…
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‘A new world has opened up’: How a London street was filled with art – and brought the neighbors together | Art and design

‘A new world has opened up’: How a London street was filled with art – and brought the neighbors together | Art and design

πŸ”₯ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Exhibitions,Peckham,London,Society βœ… **What You’ll 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…
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TV Tonight: A Northern Ode to Taylor Swift’s Love Stories | TV and radio

TV Tonight: A Northern Ode to Taylor Swift’s Love Stories | TV and radio

πŸ”₯ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Television & radio,Culture πŸ“Œ **What You’ll 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…
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