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TV tonight: Star Trek’s upbeat introduction with a fresh-faced Spock | TV and radio

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✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television & radio,Culture 💡 Key idea: Star Trek: Strange New WorldsAt 10.20pm on ITV1What was life like on the USS Enterprise before Captain Kirk? That's the question answered in this delightful Star Trek series, with new versions of Spock (Ethan Peck) and Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding). After debuting on Paramount+ in 2022, the first season has now aired on ITV1 in double-billed installments. The opening episode sees the return of Captain Pike (Anson Mount), who has been granted leave to the Enterprise to lead a risky rescue…

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Ace Frehley, lead guitarist and co-founder of the band, dies at 74 Kiss

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✨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Kiss,Music,Culture,Pop and rock 💡 Main takeaway: Ace Frehley, lead guitarist and co-founder of the rock band KISS, has died at the age of 74.The musician, who inspired a generation of guitarists and played on Kiss' first nine albums, died on Thursday in a hospital in New Jersey after suffering injuries during a recent fall, his family said in a statement.“We are absolutely devastated and devastated,” the Frehley family said. “In his final moments, we were fortunate enough to be able to surround him with loving, caring and…

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Mr. Scorsese’s review – Five hours is not long enough to do justice to the greatest film director of all time | television

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🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Martin Scorsese,Film,Documentary 📌 Key idea: TThe world does not lack documentaries about Martin Scorsese. Those who want to see his inspirations and methodology can actually search for a personal journey with Martin Scorsese through 1995's American Films, 2004's Scorsese on Scorsese or any of the endless biographies that fans have collected on YouTube.But all of this is incomplete, either frozen in the middle of Scorsese's career or lacking direct input from the man himself. Rebecca Miller's sprawling Apple TV documentary Mr. Scorsese is an attempt…

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The blue plaque will be unveiled at the home of Thomas the Tank Engine creator | legacy

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💥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Heritage,Children and teenagers,UK news,Gloucestershire,Culture,Rail transport,Books,Children's TV 📌 Key idea: Eighty years after the first much-loved train fleet was introduced to the world, a patriotic blue plaque has been unveiled at the red-brick house in Gloucestershire where the Reverend W Awdry worked on his railway stories.The blue plaque will be placed at Audrey's former home in Stroud. Image: Press Office/Historic EnglandThe addition of a new Historic England plaque to Wilbert Odry's old address in Stroud is expected to prompt fans of Thomas the Tank Engine and his fellow…

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BBC Phil/Cell: Bliss, Miracle in the Gorps/Transformers Album Review – Plenty to Enjoy | classical music

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✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Classical music,Opera,Culture,Music 📌 Key idea: A The ballet is set among Glasgow tenements where a girl who throws herself at Clyde is revived by a Christ-like figure, only to see him murdered by a barbershop gang, an unlikely task for the Queen's future music teacher. Miracle in Gorbals, commissioned by Sadler's Wells in 1944, was one of Arthur Bliss's most daring projects, although somewhat conventional in terms of orchestration. Highlights include the almost Parisian waltzes of two young lovers and a troubled sex worker, a haunting…

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Lawrence Fox’s defamation suit over allegations of racism will be retried | Lawrence Fox

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💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Laurence Fox,Law,Court of appeal,UK news,Social media,X,Digital media 📌 Key idea: The Court of Appeal has ruled that Lawrence Fox's defamation suit should be retried after he was called a racist on social media.The former actor was successfully sued by Simon Blake, who is now CEO of Stonewall, and drag artist Crystal, over a spat on the social media platform Twitter, now called X.Fox, 47, described Blake and the former RuPaul's Drag Race contestant, whose real name is Colin Seymour, as "pedophiles" in an exchange over Sainsbury's resolution…

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Oggy Oggy Oggy! Tacular dance music in Hull’s huge entertainment city | Dance music

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💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Dance music,Electronic music,Music,Culture,Hull,Yorkshire,UK news ✅ Main takeaway: The scent of fried onions wafts through the pink glow of candy floss, while lights explode, smoke billows, and songs play simultaneously at a deafening volume: walking into a Hull gallery is sensory overload.Spanning 16 acres and more than 300 attractions, it is one of Europe's largest traveling fairs and will attract around 600,000 people over a week-long period ending on Sunday. However, despite the countless thrills, including the UK's longest fairground ride, there is one attraction that remains king:…

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Stormzy was elected an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge Stormzy

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✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Stormzy,University of Cambridge,Philanthropy,Higher education,Culture,Education,Society,UK news,Cambridge,Music,Race,Grime,Hip-hop,World news,Race in education 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: Popular musician and philanthropist Stormzy has been elected an honorary fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge University.The 32-year-old, whose full name is Michael Ebenezer Kwadjo Omari Owo Junior, was nominated in recognition of his cultural influence and charitable work, after he launched the Stormzy Scholarship at the university in 2018.It is the second award Stormzy has received from Cambridge. In June, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree for the scholarship programme, which…

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Women Riot into Sunlight: The Week in Rave Reviews | culture

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Culture,Television,Film,Books,Music 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: televisionIf you only watch one, do it...Riot womenBBC iPlayerRiot women. Image: BBC/PASummarize in a sentence Sally Wainwright returns with a lively drama about a group of middle-aged women who form a punk band.What our reviewer said “It is, of course, in Wainwright's usual way, absolutely full of humour, from the lightest to the darkest... Like all her best work, it covers a lot of ground without faltering or leaving the viewer feeling shortchanged.” Lucy ManganRead the full reviewFurther reading Inside…

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Six Great Reads: The Story of Virginia Giuffre, The Truth About Chat, and Peter Thiel’s Search for the Antichrist |

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🚀 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: 1. 'Prince Andrew thought it was his birthright to have sex with me': Virginia Giuffre speaks out about her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King's brotherA photo of Virginia Roberts Giuffre as a teenager, around the time she met Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Photo: Courtesy of Virginia Roberts Giuffre“Then one hot day a few weeks before my seventeenth birthday, I was walking toward the Mar-a-Lago spa, on my way to work, when a car behind me slowed down. Inside…

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