💥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,LGBTQ+ rights,San Francisco ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: CEnnifer M Kroot's Hunky Jesus, narrated by George Takei, is the opening event of this year's BFI Flare, an LGBTQ+ filmmaking festival. It revolves around a gruesome annual talent contest for the most Jesus-like figure, in which the contestants are often anointed with oil, with some kind of buttocks not mentioned in the New Testament, and sometimes engage in a pole dance circling the cross, declaring that they want to be nailed and rise again.It is staged every Easter in…
💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Prince,Music 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I I grew up loving Prince's music and I remember thinking, "I'm going to work for this guy someday." Throughout high school and college I photographed local bands. I would say I worked at a newspaper but I didn't tell them it was my high school newspaper, so they would give me passes to U2 or Boy George. One time, when I went to photograph Lionel Richie, I was supported by Sheila E., who I knew had a connection to…
💥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Games,Culture,Indie games,Microsoft,Computing,Palestine,Middle East and north Africa,Activism 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: VIntellectual games are suffering from a funding crisis. Investor money flowed freely during the pandemic gaming boom, but now the well has run dry. It has become increasingly difficult, for independent developers in particular, to obtain the capital needed to make games. It is very unusual to hear about a developer Return Investor money. However, that's what the speculative agency, the developers of All Will Rise, have just done.Last year, All Will Rise, a deck-building game about…
🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Oscars,Aaron Sorkin,Awards and prizes,Culture,Film,Octavia Spencer,Andrew Garfield,Jack O'Connell,Sebastian Stan ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WAlthough this time last year we may have already been aware of Oscar-winning films like One Battle After Another and Hamnet, Sunday's ceremony showed that the race isn't always easy to predict just yet. Horror films like Sinners, Wilms, Frankenstein and the KPop phenomenon Demon Hunters were not all competitive, while international films continued to surprise.It makes this annual game increasingly difficult, but here again are some ridiculous early picks for next year's Oscars:Aaron Sorkin…
🚀 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Val Kilmer,AI (artificial intelligence),Native Americans,Film,Technology,Culture,US news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Val Kilmer is set to be the latest Hollywood star to be brought to life by artificial intelligence. The acting legend, who died last year at the age of 65, will star in the drama As Deep As the Grave.Kilmer was associated with the project before his death from throat cancer.The late actor will play Father Fintan, a Native American spiritualist and Catholic priest. Speaking to Variety, director and writer Corti Voorhees said the role was designed…
💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Electronic music,Punk,Dance music,Pop and rock,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IAt Belfast's Kelly's Cellars, a bar that has been bringing the city's people together since 1720, traditional music oozes from somewhere deep inside when Ross Cullen and Benedict Goddard arrive from the street. They settle down in a corner corner and eat pints of tough meat.Together they form the duo Chalk. When the Kneecap exploded outside Belfast, Chalk's longer fuse was quietly burning alongside them. Formed when they met while studying film at university, the duo have…
💥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: K-pop,Life and style,Music,Pop and rock,Culture,Hobbies 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When I heard the surprising news that BTS would be releasing a comeback album, it took me back to a previous version of myself, a version that was extremely consuming in its obsession, but equally characterized by shyness.When I was 14, I mastered the art of lowering the brightness of my screen and switching tabs to hide my shameful secret from any passer-by or seat-sharer.While schoolchildren would gather around computer screens and shamelessly watch live cricket matches at…
🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Opera,Classical music,Culture,Music,Royal Opera House,Richard Wagner 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe first thing we see is the feet. They sway gently, back and forth, as the curtain slowly rises on the third installment of Wagner's Ring cycle to reveal their owner, who is seated on a swing suspended from a gnarled tree. Sitting precariously in its scorched branches is the treehouse where the dwarf Mime raised the hero-in-waiting Siegfried.Who are their feet? If you've been following Barrie Kosky's production of Ring since it began with Das Rheingold…
💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,West End,Gillian Anderson,Nica Burns,Sonia Friedman,UK news,Edward Albee,Marianne Elliott ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Gillian Anderson will return to the West End in the role she has coveted "for decades". The Sex Education star will appear opposite Billy Crudup in a revival of Edward Albee's marital breakdown classic Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In the fall. The production will be staged in a carousel by Marianne Elliott in the intimate @sohoplace theatre.Anderson will play Martha, who quarrels with her professor husband, George, over drinks with a young couple in…
🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Metal,Music,Pop and rock,Germany,Culture,Europe 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe noise may have been building since the early 1980s, but 1986 was the year thrash metal exploded – exploding like oil on a teenage metalhead's swollen chin. Slayer, Megadeth and Metallica have all released landmark albums, with the latter trading sparse rock clubs for a series of arena dates supporting Ozzy Osbourne. But while these California acts would change the course of rock music forever, a group of like-minded teenagers were forging their own path 5,500 miles from…
