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Two skinheads preparing what was seized from a neo-Nazi party: Best photo of Leo Reagan | Art and design

Two skinheads preparing what was seized from a neo-Nazi party: Best photo of Leo Reagan | Art and design

🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Far right,Photography 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn 1990, I was working in photojournalism but I was doing music photography to make money. At the time, there was a rise in neo-Nazi music, with bands like Skrewdriver and the Blood and Honor movement. I initially intended to write a magazine article about it, but it grew into a much larger project and I ended up spending two years following these people around the country. This led to a book and a documentary.It was a difficult project…
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Phil Collins, Mariah Carey and Lauryn Hill among those nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | music

Phil Collins, Mariah Carey and Lauryn Hill among those nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | music

🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Pop and rock,Phil Collins,Mariah Carey,Lauryn Hill,Sade,Wu-Tang Clan,R&B,Hip-hop,Shakira,Iron Maiden 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Phil Collins, Mariah Carey, Lauryn Hill, INXS, Iron Maiden, Luther Vandross and Shakira are some of the 2026 nominees for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a broad network that includes rap, metal, R&B, hip-hop, Britpop, blues-rock and pop.The hall revealed a list of 17 nominated artists on Wednesday, a list that also includes Melissa Etheridge, Jeff Buckley, Pink, New Edition, Sade and Wu-Tang Clan.Billy Idol and Joy Division/New Order return to…
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Taliban burn musical instruments in the name of morality. It is an attack on the entire culture music

Taliban burn musical instruments in the name of morality. It is an attack on the entire culture music

✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Classical music,Folk music,Afghanistan,Taliban,Islam,Culture,South and central Asia,Middle East and north Africa,World news,Human rights,Law,Religion 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe horrors of Taliban rule in Afghanistan are universal. New laws effectively legalizing domestic violence mean that every woman in the country now lives with the threat of state-sanctioned violence. In the context of the dual tragedies of the Taliban's fundamentalist zeal, and the silence of the rest of the world in the face of the atrocities committed by this movement, the fate of cultural life in Afghanistan may seem like…
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Why Xbox’s corporate change is important for everyone who plays games | games

Why Xbox’s corporate change is important for everyone who plays games | games

🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Games,Culture,Xbox,Microsoft,AI (artificial intelligence),PlayStation,Halo,Fortnite,Minecraft ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AAnd so everything changes on Xbox. It was announced last Friday that Microsoft's gaming chief executive, Phil Spencer, will retire, while its president, Sarah Bond, will resign. In its place is a new partnership: Matt Botti, head of Xbox Game Studios, has been promoted to chief content officer, while the new CEO is Asha Sharma, who moves from her position as head of Microsoft's CoreAI product.In a company-wide email, Spencer said he would stay on through the summer in an…
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‘The biggest commercial force of all time’: Why did the Oscars peak in 1998?

‘The biggest commercial force of all time’: Why did the Oscars peak in 1998?

✨ Check out this awesome post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Although Titanic was exceptional, it was part of a broader pattern: many of the best picture winners of the 20th century were also among the most profitable films of their respective years. “From 1927 to 1976, nearly 90% of Best Picture Oscars were awarded to films that were also in the 10 highest-grossing pictures of the year,” film historian Gene Del Vecchio wrote in the Huffington Post in 2014. "Academy voters and audiences alike enjoyed serious romantic dramas like Casablanca, adventures like Around the…
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Marty Supreme’s ping pong grip is exciting but the stage plot really breaks it | stage

Marty Supreme’s ping pong grip is exciting but the stage plot really breaks it | stage

💥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Marty Supreme,Film,Culture,Timothée Chalamet,Gwyneth Paltrow,Broadway,Table tennis,Sport,Acting 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: CMarty Supreme, the nerve-racking ping-pong player played by Osh Safdie, races through ambition, vanity, humiliation, deceit, soaring glory, crushing failure and the timeless allure of an eleventh-hour comeback. I realized all this after hours of playing table tennis in our local park. But I also realize it from nights spent at the theater – perhaps not the plays themselves, but the theater as the crucible for the careers of those involved. The film's subplot, revolving around the charged…
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Tracey Emin: Second Life review – This display of undiluted love, heartache and pain left me a tearful wreck | Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin: Second Life review – This display of undiluted love, heartache and pain left me a tearful wreck | Tracey Emin

✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Tracey Emin,Art,Art and design,Culture,Tate Modern 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IDon't feel as if you're intruding. Stepping into Trace Emin's massive exhibition curated by Tate Modern is like walking into her crying, naked, sobbing and snotty, as if you've stumbled upon something painfully private.It's not easy to achieve in the cavernous spaces of our leading contemporary art institution, but that's what makes Tracey - it doesn't seem right to call her a curator, she brings you so close to knowing her, it's Tracey, right? - Such a distinguished…
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I was at the BAFTA Awards – and while hearing the word ‘nigger’ is unsettling, all the anger should be directed at the BBC | Jason Okundaye

I was at the BAFTA Awards – and while hearing the word ‘nigger’ is unsettling, all the anger should be directed at the BBC | Jason Okundaye

💥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Baftas 2026,Race,Tourette syndrome,Delroy Lindo,Michael B Jordan,Awards and prizes,Film,Culture,UK news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I He attended the BAFTA Awards on Sunday. I arrived early enough to hear an introduction to John Davidson, the Tourette's syndrome campaigner on whom the biopic I Swear was based. He stood to wave and receive applause, and we were told that because of his TS, we might expect to hear involuntary vocal outbursts, known as tics, and that we should understand that the Baftas are an inclusive space where all people are…
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Crazy Old Lady Review – Carmen Maura excels as a red hot poker wielding murderous retiree | film

Crazy Old Lady Review – Carmen Maura excels as a red hot poker wielding murderous retiree | film

🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Horror films,Spain,Dementia,Culture,Europe,Mental health,Health,Society,World news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: ShUnderstandably, we tend to think of older women as being among the most vulnerable in society, which means they make excellent enemies in horror movies because no one would think an old dear could do so much damage. Unless she has a fiery poker game, a house full of useful chaos, dementia, and a violent streak, as is the case with Alicia, played here by the wonderful Carmen Maura, once the lead in Pedro Almodovar's Women on the Verge…
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TV TONIGHT: Kayla Harris’s hit comedy about best friends returns | television

TV TONIGHT: Kayla Harris’s hit comedy about best friends returns | television

🔥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: We may regret this10pm on BBC TwoWelcome back to this great comedy from Kayla Harris and Lee Getty. Freya (Harris) is now somewhat reluctantly engaged – but she misses her best friend/BA Jo (Elena Sorel) and filming disability awareness ads doesn't quite meet her artistic needs. Then there are her agents who want her to meet a designer who only wants to design a wedding dress for a wheelchair user... Holly RichardsonCelebrity languageAt 7.30pm on ITV1Big names compete for…
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