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Principe Discos: How black DJs from the Lisbon suburbs made it the hottest record label in Europe | Dance music

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Dance music,Music,Culture,Portugal,Europe ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIt was just after 11:30pm on a Friday in early March, and the air at Lux Frágil was already thick with excitement. Groups of people stream down the stairs of the Lisbon Club, past a giant disco ball, and local DJ and producer Xexa dazzles the crowd with a live set of tracks. Soon, the disco downstairs will be filled with sweaty dancers of scene heroes DJ Marvox, DJ Nervoso, and Dariovox, their bodies colliding with the pulse-racing batidas.Come the early…

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Through the Centuries: Review of Madeleine Dring’s Song Album – dismisses any notion that she was not a serious composer | classical music

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🚀 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Music,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: forMadeleine Dring was born in 1923 and studied at the Royal College of Music, where her teachers included Herbert Howells and Vaughan Williams. An unconventional career, including stints in theatre, pantomime and cabaret, ended with her death of a brain aneurysm at the age of 53. Already a maverick, the fact that much of her music remained unreleased until the late 1990s threatened to condemn her to obscurity.Album artwork Through the Centuries: The Songs of Madeleine Dring Photo: ChandosEnter Kitty Whately…

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Audiobook review of The Barbecue at No 9 by Jenny Godfrey – Suburban Secrets and Lies | books

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIt happened in July 1985, two days before the historic Live Aid charity concert held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. Goth teen Hannah Gordon was asked by her mother, Lydia, to distribute invitations to their neighbors to meet at their house to "help the kids." Hannah suspects that Lydia's intentions may not be entirely charitable and that she wants to show off her new barbecue. But Hannah's long-suffering father, Peter, is not enthusiastic, complaining…

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‘My taste is superb. My eyes are exquisite’: Dianne Wiest’s 20 best film performances – ranked! | Film

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🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,Woody Allen,Comedy films,Oscars 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Every great performer should have at least one baffling movie on their CV, and this curio, produced by Ismail Merchant, is Dianne Wiest’s. The plot is bananas: she plays an opera singer leading her gay teenage son to believe that his father (Simon Callow) is dead, by taking the boy to visit a fake grave each year. Guess what? He’s alive! Not for long, though: he’s soon murdered by his own gay pickup, with his son witnessing it all from…

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“Our lead actor doesn’t know he’s on a TV show!” The return of an incredible TV hoax | television

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🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Reality TV 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: If there was ever a TV show that you thought should be left behind for one season, it would be Jury Duty.The Amazon series became a slow, word-of-mouth hit until 2023 for pulling off a frankly unbelievable stunt: it succeeded in convincing one man, Ronald Gladden, that he was participating in a documentary set in a Los Angeles courtroom, when in reality, everything about the operation was shown and he was the only participant who wasn't an actor.Despite constant…

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In the deadly world of online gaming, there are no more successes – only survivors games

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Games,Shooting games,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: What does success look like for online video game developers? In 2026, the answer couldn't be clearer: no one has a clue.Consider Highguard, the first major flop of 2026. Signs were promising when it launched on January 26, with Steam hitting 100,000 concurrent players — in addition to those enjoying the game on PlayStation and Xbox, which doesn't announce player counts. As a free-to-play game, the barrier to entry for Highguard was low. And thanks to a major ad placement…

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Eight of the best podcasts of 2026 so far

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🚀 Check out this trending post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: In the creation myth, de Groot considers the question: shall we reproduce or shall we not reproduce? It's a raw, compelling audio memoir, moving from the present to the past and back again as it documents its creator's deepest fears about motherhood. Now, from the perspective of her 40s, de Groot finds herself questioning her own convictions and weighing the impact her decision will have on herself, her friendships, and her marriage.Listen in cbc.ca 7. The best is yet to comeSeniors have been underserved…

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A Strange Inheritance by Michael Hall Review – The National Trust’s LGBTQ History Revealed | History books

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: History books,Books,Culture,The National Trust,LGBTQ+ rights,Society 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen it emerged that the National Trust had put vegan scones on the menu, some newspapers seized on it as a marmalade dropper – or perhaps a strawberry jam dropper – as evidence that the trust had woken up. Wait until they hear about all the gay men and women who helped make the Fund what it is today. The charity's 5.4 million members and others visit its grand estates for a lovely day out and a…

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Midwinter Break Review – A sad, prickly, and brilliantly acted portrait of rupture and ecstasy | film

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Drama films,Lesley Manville,Film adaptations,Niamh Cusack,Books,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: MMovies about aging empty-nesters who go on a bittersweet vacation and unexpectedly have to confront something about their relationship are common enough. Roger Michell's Le Weekend starred Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan as an older couple spending their Eurostar break in Paris; And in Paolo Virzi's succulent The Leisure Seeker, Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren dash off in a Winnebago. There's often something soft, mysterious and sinfully depressing about the indulgent sentimentality of sunset in these films…

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‘The world was hard – this film was meant to be a hug’: Ugo Bienvenu on his intimate environmental novel ‘Arco’ | Animation in the movie

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🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Animation in film,Film,Culture,Oscars 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: THere are gray clouds over Los Angeles, and the sky is spitting. “It never rains in Los Angeles,” says Ugo Bienveno. “But every time I come here, it rains.” For the past eight months, the French animator has been on the campaign trail, in Los Angeles and elsewhere, with Arco, which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards on Sunday. It's a great family animation, combining the big heart of ET with the artistry of Studio…

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