π₯ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: The Bear,Ebon Moss-Bachrach,Television,Television & radio,Culture π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: eBon Moss-Bachrach is currently starring in the popular Broadway production of Dog Day Afternoon, but after he takes his bow, there's only one thing audiences want to talk about. βEvery time I leave the stage door, there are a few hundred people screaming βMy cousin!ββ he laughs.That's his catchphrase as eccentric Professor Richie Jeremiah Jeremiah in The Bear, of course. And now the culinary comedy-drama is back on the menu. One of the most influential TV shows of…
π₯ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Pitlochry Festival theatre,Comedy,Comedy β
**What Youβll Learn**: THere's a clever conceit that lies behind Douglas Maxwell's sexy romantic comedy. He imagines the possibility of continuing a sexually charged relationship without physical contact. This improbable idea is brought to life on stage, and it reaches two levels.Two students meet at a twenty-first birthday party in 1995, one in law and the other in media studies, and agree to maintain the exciting anticipation of their first meeting by never touching each other. If they did, the relationship would end.We…
π Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Dance,SinΓ©ad O'Connor,Stage,Culture,Music β
**What Youβll Learn**: SOnya Tayeh remembers watching βSaturday Night Liveβ in October 1992, at her home in Detroit, when a young woman with a shaved head behind a microphone tore up a picture of Pope John Paul II, saying, βFight the real enemy.β"It felt like the whole world stopped," recalls Tye, who is still amazed by Sinead O'Connor's protest against abuse in the Catholic Church, and the defiance in "those eyes that seep into your soul and burn... It was like I could feel…
β¨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Architecture,Australia news,Art and design,Culture,Design,Housing,Melbourne,Victoria β
**What Youβll Learn**: A redesigned St Kilda Pier has added more accolades to its thriving trophy cabinet, scooping some of the best gongs in the 2026 Australian Institute of Architects Victorian Awards.The $53 million Victorian Government project by Jackson Clements Burrows Architects, along with Site Office Landscape Architecture and AW Maritime, was awarded the Victorian Architecture Medal on Friday, the award given to the most outstanding project of the year.It also won the Dimitty Reed Melbourne Award and the Joseph Reed Urban…
π₯ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Film,Italy,Europe,World news,Culture β
**What Youβll Learn**: Bologna will be transformed into an open-air cinema museum on Saturday, as a nine-day festival dedicated to restored and rediscovered neglected films - some dating back more than a century - kicks off in the northern Italian city.Now celebrating its 40th anniversary, Il Cinema Ritrovato has evolved from its niche origins into an influential international gathering captivating a new generation of cinephiles.Last year's edition, which included a revival of Charlie Chaplin's 1925 film "The Gold Rush," attracted a record 140,000…
π₯ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Culture,Music,Indie π **What Youβll Learn**: AAt the end of July, Durutti Column will release their first new music in 16 years: the stunningly beautiful Renascent. It's prime time for the return of Vini Reilly, Bruce Mitchell and Keir Stewart as Durutti's influence is everywhere: sampled by Blood Orange on his latest album Essex Honey; Harry Styles cited it on his new LP Kiss All the Time. Disco, sometimes, as well as Mark William Lewis and Young Lin; Played on the bear.Not that the group needs endorsements:…
π₯ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Film,Luca Guadagnino,OpenAI,Sam Altman,Culture,Technology,Amazon π **What Youβll Learn**: Luca Guadagnino's controversial Sam Altman biopic, Artificial, which is set to take home awards next year, has been dropped by its distributor, Amazon.In a statement first reported by Puck, Amazon said it believes "Artificial will be better served if released by a different studio, and is working closely with the film's making team to find a new home for the film."Amazon's decision to leave the project follows an important partnership between Amazon and OpenAI, of which Altman serves as CEO.…
π Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Exhibitions,Frida Kahlo,Tate Modern,National Gallery,Art,British Museum,Museums,Art and design,Culture,UK news β
**What Youβll Learn**: WWhen the Tate Modern announced a major exhibition dedicated to Frida Kahlo, no one doubted that it would be popular. The Mexican artist has become one of the world's most recognizable cultural figures, with her image adorning everything from tote bags to T-shirts.But even Tate wasn't prepared for the scale of the demand. More than 41,000 tickets have already been sold for the exhibition Frida: The Making of an Icon, which opens on June 25,…
β¨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Film,Culture,Refugees,World news,Documentary films,Drama films β
**What Youβll Learn**: AWith World Refugee Day approaching on Saturday, this year's Refugee Week offers several events taking place across the UK, including a film festival that takes audiences from Ain al-Hilweh β the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon β in Mehdi Fleifel's film A World Not Ours and to a migrant deportation center in Dreamers, directed by Joey Garuru-Akpogotor.The UK asylum system is the focus of Allies in Exile, a first-person documentary by Syrian directors Hassan Kattan and Fadi…
β¨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Opera,Classical music,Culture,Music,Claudio Monteverdi π **What Youβll Learn**: toIt seems lightning could strike the Chiltern Hills twice. In 2022, director John Caird and conductor Lawrence Cummings collaborated on a staging of Monteverdi's Orfeo, a seminal work from 1607. Four years later came Il Ritorno d'Ulisse, another fine slice of Baroque musical theatre. Like Ulysses, it took Monteverdi decades to find his way back to the genre he had helped define during his middle period in Mantua. Inspired by the new world of commercial opera in Venice in the…
