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Abigail Spanberger thinks Democrats need to listen more

Abigail Spanberger thinks Democrats need to listen more

✨ Read this must-read post from The New Yorker πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: News / The Political Scene πŸ“Œ Main takeaway: Every four years, a familiar pattern emerges in Virginia, where governors are limited to one term at a time, and elections are held twelve months after the last presidential election. A semi-substantial campaign erupts, but the outcome is driven by the national mood. Only once in the past half-century has the president's party won the governor's mansion in Richmond. Unlike in New Jersey β€” where Spanberger's old congressional colleague, Mikie Sherrill, is running in the state's other gubernatorial race this…
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Paintings by the UK’s pioneer of abstract art will be displayed in the West Country | art

Paintings by the UK’s pioneer of abstract art will be displayed in the West Country | art

πŸ”₯ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Art,UK news,Mark Rothko,Somerset,Painting,Art and design,Culture πŸ’‘ Here’s what you’ll learn: The story of one of the UK's greatest abstract painters drawing inspiration from the ordinary - and the extraordinary meeting he had with an American art giant - is told in a new exhibition in the West Country.Three large-scale paintings by William Scott (1913-1989) have been loaned to the Somerset Museum in Taunton, near the artist's home and studio in the countryside south of Bath.Visitors will also learn about a trip taken by American artist Mark Rothko…
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Louvre jewel stolen by petty criminals, not organized professionals, says Paris prosecutor | Paris

Louvre jewel stolen by petty criminals, not organized professionals, says Paris prosecutor | Paris

πŸ”₯ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Paris,Museums,France,Europe,World news,Culture πŸ“Œ Main takeaway: The Paris prosecutor said that the daytime robbery at the Louvre Museum was carried out by petty criminals rather than professionals from the world of organized crime, and described two of the suspects as a couple with children.The confirmation comes two weeks after thieves parked a stolen truck outside the world's most visited museum, used a furniture lift to reach the first floor, and then broke into one of the museum's most ornate rooms. Less than seven minutes later, they fled on…
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Halloween in South Park: Final episode destroys Trump for tearing down the White House | South Park

Halloween in South Park: Final episode destroys Trump for tearing down the White House | South Park

πŸ’₯ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: South Park,Animation on TV,Television,US television,Television & radio,TV comedy,Comedy,Culture,US politics,US news βœ… Main takeaway: TThe second episode of South Park's surprise 28th season was supposed to air last Wednesday (the immediately preceding Season 27 was only five episodes) but it ended up being pushed back to Friday. This worked to the show's advantage, since tonight's episode, titled "The Woman in the Hat," is very Halloween-specific.After the closing of Tigredy Farms, the Marsh family finds themselves rudderless, living in hotels while patriarch Randy looks for work (thanks to the…
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Thai cave rescue diver Richard Harris devised an experiment. If he succeeds, he will be a hero. If not, it may explode Australian film

Thai cave rescue diver Richard Harris devised an experiment. If he succeeds, he will be a hero. If not, it may explode Australian film

πŸš€ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Australian film,Documentary films,Diving,Exploration,New Zealand,Australia news,Extreme sports,Film πŸ“Œ Main takeaway: Deep in a valley in the New Zealand wilderness, cold, clear water rushes through moss-covered rocks.In the morning the fog rises and extends across the valley. In the afternoon, the sun sparkles on the Pierce River, shafts of light filtering through the native tree canopy. It is a fertile, primitive place. The water flowed through tunnels at Mount Arthur, in the northwest of the South Island, to meet at its base at Pearce Resurgence. On the surface it…
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Girlbands Forever Review – An Exciting Slice of Must-Watch TV | television

Girlbands Forever Review – An Exciting Slice of Must-Watch TV | television

✨ Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Spice Girls,All Saints,Little Mix,Sugababes πŸ’‘ Key idea: AIn a pop culture moment, the girl group boom at the turn of the millennium was not bathed in formal evaluation and analysis. Wisely, this fantastically entertaining three-part documentary doesn't attempt to correct that. Instead, Girlbands Forever reminisces in a way that is equal parts flesh and foam. And yes, it's often as nauseating as this combination sounds.At the heart of this series β€” the female-focused follow-up to 2024's Boybands Forever β€” is a lot of old ground.…
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β€˜The world said I was dead – in so many ways I was’: Paul McCartney on the lost years after the Beatles | Paul McCartney

β€˜The world said I was dead – in so many ways I was’: Paul McCartney on the lost years after the Beatles | Paul McCartney

✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Paul McCartney,The Beatles,Music,Culture βœ… Main takeaway: The strangest rumour started floating around just as the Beatles were breaking up – that I was dead. We had heard it long before, but suddenly, in that autumn of 1969, stirred up by a DJ in America, it took on a force all its own, so that millions of fans around the world believed I was actually gone.At one point, I turned to my new wife and asked, β€œLinda, how can I possibly be dead?” She smiled as she…
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Dead Man Walking review – The searing honesty and humanity in ENO’s presentation of Heiji’s compelling opera | Opera

Dead Man Walking review – The searing honesty and humanity in ENO’s presentation of Heiji’s compelling opera | Opera

✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Opera,English National Opera (ENO),Classical music,Culture,Music,Capital punishment πŸ’‘ Here’s what you’ll learn: pRestaged in 2000, Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking is the most performed opera of the 21st century, yet surprisingly this co-production with Opera North and the Finnish National Opera is its first full professional performance in the UK. Based on Sister Helen Prejean's 1993 memoir of the same name, it depicts her experiences as a spiritual advisor to a convicted murderer on death row: Joseph De Rocher (a composite character based on two men in…
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Romesh Ranganathan: ‘I Want Your Soul’ by Armand van Helden is so catchy that I’m sick of it” | Culture

Romesh Ranganathan: ‘I Want Your Soul’ by Armand van Helden is so catchy that I’m sick of it” | Culture

πŸš€ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Culture,Music,Romesh Ranganathan πŸ’‘ Main takeaway: The first song I fell in love withWhen I was growing up, every weekend we would visit the home of a different Sri Lankan family in London. One of the kids got Michael Jackson's Thriller, and I fell in love with Billie Jean. I then ripped up my brother's bad Michael Jackson poster in retaliation, for which I now officially apologize.The song I play at karaokeI've never done that. If someone had my family and said, β€œPick a song to release,”…
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Lynne Ramsay on pushing Jennifer Lawrence to the brink in her twisted motherhood drama: β€˜I make films my way’ | Lynne Ramsay

Lynne Ramsay on pushing Jennifer Lawrence to the brink in her twisted motherhood drama: β€˜I make films my way’ | Lynne Ramsay

πŸ”₯ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Lynne Ramsay,Film,Jennifer Lawrence,We Need to Talk About Kevin,Culture βœ… Main takeaway: Several years ago, Martin Scorsese read Die, My Love in his book club. The novel, by Argentinian author Ariana Harwicz, follows an unnamed woman who moves with her husband to the middle of nowhere in France. Isolated and frustrated, she battles the confines of marriage and motherhood. She introduces herself to the reader as β€œa nutcase”, as β€œsomeone beyond repair”. She sets fire to ants, swears at her child, complains of its β€œconstant clucking and grousing”.…
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