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Family Man Review by James Lasdun – The Killings That Shocked America | True crime books

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💥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: True crime books,Books,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn March 2023, 54-year-old Alex Murdaugh received two life sentences for killing his wife and youngest son at the family's hunting lodge in Colleton County, South Carolina. Since the early twentieth century, three generations of his family have been elected state prosecutors in the “Low Country,” a sprawling region of fertile, rotten swamps on the southeast coast, characterized by extreme economic and social inequality. The Murdoughs were the kind of people who could send you to prison or the…

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‘Rude, hard-drinking, committed communist’: the Frida Kahlo you can’t buy in a gift shop | Frida Kahlo

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🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Frida Kahlo,Art and design,Culture,Tate Modern,Exhibitions,Art 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I I spend a lot of time in museum gift shops, and no matter where I am in the world, I will see Frida Kahlo. Its shape appears on socks, toys, puzzles, water bottles, pillows, jewelry, mugs, egg cups, phone cases, shopping bags, votive candles, notebooks, key chains — almost any consumer goods, in fact, that can be molded or printed.Her face has been pared down to a recognizable abbreviation of unibrow, red lipstick, and an extravagant pink…

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Glastonbury Film Review – Thirty Years Later, The Sunset of a Hippie Dream in All Its Glory | film

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✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Glastonbury festival,Culture,Festivals,Music,Music festivals 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WAt Glastonbury, in a year off, anyone missing their dose of West Country bacchanalia will have to make do with this fascinating documentary, remastered in 4K and re-released for its 30th anniversary. Filmed at the 1993 festival, it's a powerful antidote to today's digital saturation: no mobile phones, no corporate logos, just tens of thousands of people unconsciously possessing a large volume in one of those blessed years when the sun god smiled upon the people of Glastonbury. If…

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I am a soldier. I don’t have a weapon, but I have a pen and a camera’: Mahnaz Mohammadi talks about fighting the Iranian regime | film

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💥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Iran,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: MAhnaz Mohammadi is a survivor. The Iranian director and women's rights activist has been arrested on numerous occasions and imprisoned several times. In 2011, she was held for several months in solitary confinement and tortured. In 2014, she was sentenced to five years in prison and spent several months in prison. A few years ago, she met one of her first interrogators after her early arrest."Do you know what he told me?" She says. "He said he told his colleagues that after…

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Ai Weiwei pushes Manchester buttons, potter makes it personal, frames are reshaped – The Week in Art | Art and design

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Painting,Ai Weiwei,Photography,Art,Exhibitions 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Exhibition of the weekAi Weiwei: Up button!If any artist could fill Factory International's spacious house, it's Ai Weiwei, with an installation about world history, colonialism... and buttons. Aviva Studios, Manchester, from 2 July to 6 Septemberalso appearLindsey MendickThis artist, who can create wild and delightful ceramics with the same ease with which most people burn toast, explores personal trauma. Carl Friedman Gallery, Margate, from 28 June to 30 AugustAnne HardyA curious figurative sculpture in an installation that mixes bronze,…

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UK teens ‘stuck’ reading primary level books as girls’ tastes expand | books

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Literacy,Education,Young people,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A new study shows that teenage boys are "stuck" reading primary school books such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid, while girls their age are moving on to a wider range of novels.Among the 11- to 14-year-olds surveyed, eight of the 10 most-read books were from Jeff Kinney's "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series. Girls' reading has spread across a wide range of authors and genres including "Heartstopper" by Alice Ozman, "A Good Girl's Guide to Murder" by Holly Jackson, and…

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Madonna and Graham review – It’s ‘gay heaven’ when Kylie arrives | television

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🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Madonna,Graham Norton,Pop and rock,Music ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: toOndon, May 26. Tower Bridge spans the River Thames, like Madonna in Like the Virgin. Piccadilly lights. Ray of light feelings. Graham installed him in a black cab. (Forget Norton: such is the superpower of tonight's subject that its mere presence expels any need for epithets.) To all of this - London, the dance floor, Graham, you, me, the universe - Madonna whispers "Thank you for coming." I feel so free. And so it begins.The openings…

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From Supergirl to Muse: Your complete entertainment guide for next week | culture

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Music,Stage,Dance,Theatre,Film,Television,Television & radio,Art,Art and design,Games 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Checkout: cinemaSupergirlOut nowMillie Alcock dons spandex to play Kara Zor-El, AKA Supergirl, in the second film in the DC Universe (a soft reboot of the DC Extended Universe from James Gunn and Peter Safran), which sees the Man of Steel's cousin travel across the galaxy and embark on a quest for revenge.Donkey: the best and the lastOut nowWhat can Jackass do now that the gang is completely middle-aged? One answer: Robotic prostate examination. You can't accuse Johnny…

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From Jon Snow: One Last Big Story to Muse: The Week in Rave Reviews | culture

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✨ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Television,Film,Books,Music ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: televisionIf you only watch one, do it...Jon Snow: One last big storyChannel 4; Available nowSummarize in a sentence A journalist sets out to make a documentary about his Alzheimer's diagnosis - then discovers that the disaster in Zambia has been underreported... and old instincts kick in.What our reviewer said "This gentle but unsentimental smartwatch gives the journalist his laurels and the man his dignity, all while acknowledging the cruelty and sadness behind illness. If this is Snow's swan song, it's as great…

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TV Tonight: The stunning finale of the hit summer holiday drama | TV and radio

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Two weeks in August9pm, BBC OneThe frenetic and funny holiday drama from hell starring the excellent Jessica Reign ends with another double bill. Nothing in this show is understated and the finale is no exception. Zoe disappeared, and when things couldn't get any worse, a massive fire threatened the island. Very silly fun and very good. Phil HarrisonThe Royal Family: Uncensored5.05pm, Channel 5After millions of views on YouTube, journalists Katie Nicholl and Joe Elvin are taking their analysis of…

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