💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Animation in film,Science fiction and fantasy films,Natalie Portman,Mark Ruffalo,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: THis animated feature has a lot going for it: expressive character design, delicately melancholy music, and plenty of strong emotional beats, but the script is a touch too derivative for its own good. Younger children aren't likely to notice or care much about the stealing of low-level plot points, and little ones will be positively charmed by the over-saturated palette of rainbows swirling throughout. It's like the cartoon equivalent of the classroom art lesson…
✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Fiction,Books,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: MShe, Emily Haworth Booth's brilliant debut novel for adults, is about a woman facing three life-altering crises. The first is premature menopause, which means she can now not have a baby at all. Second, after years of success as a children's book writer, she finds herself bereft of ideas. The third has to be the least important by all accounts: passion for a horse that isn't even hers. She pays to ride, feed and care for the animal several times a week.…
🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,Art and design,Culture,Painting 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: HeyLast February morning, in a cold studio in Brussels, 28 people in white coats gathered to watch Sylvie van der Keelen paint the sky. “The first touch of the brush is generally the best,” Van der Kelen said as the light pink clouds began to appear. “It is best not to make any modifications.”For a few days this winter I was allowed to attend classes at the Van der Keelen-Louglan School, a legendary drawing school in Brussels unlike any other…
🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Rap ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TThe past five years have been punishing for Isaac Borquay, also known as British rapper Jovna B. In 2021, he was left blind in one eye for several months after being targeted in an unprovoked racist attack at his local cafe in east London. It left him shaken, but it also motivated him to write his poignant 2023 album The Village Is on Fire, which questioned structural racism. The album cover showed a close-up of his bloody eye.In the opening verse,…
🚀 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Rap,Music,Culture,US news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: US rapper Afroman has been cleared of wrongdoing after Ohio police sued him, alleging defamation, emotional distress and invasion of privacy after the artist used footage of a police raid on his home in a series of parody videos.In 2022, police searched the rapper's home for evidence of drug possession, trafficking and kidnapping. No evidence was found and no charges were filed.His wife filmed the raid on her phone, and the video was recorded on the home's surveillance cameras. Afroman…
💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Dance,Theatre,Sadler's Wells,Television,Pet Shop Boys,Russell T Davies,Culture,Media,Music,Stage,Television & radio,UK news,Aids and HIV,Society 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: It's a Sin, the award-winning television series about friendship during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, will be adapted for the stage as a dance show. The new production is being developed by Rambert who had a huge hit in 2022 with the prequel to the Peaky Blinders TV series.It's a Sin creator Russell T Davies is executive producer of the new production, which will be conceived and directed by Rambert's artistic…
🚀 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Black Water: The Sea Empress Disaster9pm on BBC Two"Horror. Absolute horror." It has been 30 years since the Sea Empress oil spill disaster caused one of the UK's most serious marine pollution incidents. Within hours of hitting rocks in the port of Milford Haven in Wales, 70,000 tonnes of oil flowed into the sea and spread across the Pembrokeshire coast. In this documentary, those who witnessed this horrific event tell their stories. Human resourcesTonight: Supermarket prices – does loyalty pay?At…
🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Kim Gordon,Music,Sonic Youth,Culture,Film,Pop and rock,Experimental music,Kristen Stewart,Zohran Mamdani,LL Cool J,Punk,Jean-Michel Basquiat,Art and design 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Do you plan to change rock music forever? Did you envision a career that would last decades, or was it all a bit random? NaphtsolimWhen Sonic Youth first started, there was a high level of music that did something people had never done before, and it was hard to know how to add to that. There was the Velvet Underground, who cast a huge shadow, and then all the non-wave…
✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Dance,Ballet,Royal Ballet,Stage,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A A dancer's debut in one of ballet's great leading roles is always an event, but it is especially notable when that dancer is a senior artist—three ranks below principal in the ballet hierarchy. Twenty-five-year-old Mariana Tsimpinhoy is clearly tipped as a future star, and the Royal Ballet's faith in her seems well placed on the basis of her debut as the tragic peasant girl Giselle.From her first entrance, floating on stage, the Ukrainian dancer (who came to train in…
💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Pop and rock,Music,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: ABrielle Gray is an American bedroom producer who is beloved by an impressive array of other artists – experimental pop duo 100 Gecs are fans, as are rapper Danny Brown and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker – but until now it's been difficult to pinpoint her exact niche. It's a challenge to sum up the sound of the debut album she recorded under the name Underscores, 2021's Fishmonger, or its follow-up, a concept album about three young women residents of a…
