✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Documentary,Cryptocurrencies ✅ Key idea: II've never met a billionaire before. This is not the way I imagined things would go. Don't get me wrong: His brightly lit Manhattan office is nice, but not unusual. The pipes are very hot. As his assistant leads me into the conference room, I'm pretty sure I can see the discarded paper plates of pizza slices sticking out of the kitchen basket. In other words, it's like most workplaces in the city.I'm here to interview Jim McKelvey, someone Forbes will…
🚀 Explore this awesome post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: As MTV takes its last breath, closing its last music channels in the UK, it's strange to look back to the days when multiple TV channels broadcast music videos for hours every day, but gave rise to pop as a product in the 2000s and the era of influencers in which we now find ourselves. Artists are meant to be seen while being heard. Not every artist was drawn to gravity at that time. Some made their videos weird or humorous, like Busta Rhymes' clips or…
✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Games,Culture,Action games,Battlefield,Shooting games 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: AAnd so Battlefield is back. The long-running military shooter series, which specializes in massive multiplayer online conflicts involving dozens of ground troops, tanks and aircraft, is back for its sixth major installment – and it's exciting, epic and compelling.Aside from the single player campaign mode, which I absolutely hated. It's another all-too-familiar tale of supernaturally gifted soldiers just doing their jobs to defend the free world from evil private military companies, terrorist organizations, or CIA double agents. It…
🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Daniel Day-Lewis,London film festival 2025,Film,Culture,Acting,Stage 📌 Key idea: Actor Daniel Day-Lewis criticized the decision to keep audiences out of cinemas, and what he saw as a continuing disdain for UK cinema at an event at the London Film Festival.Speaking to critic Mark Kermode for a lengthy talk in front of an audience at the BFI Southbank, Day-Lewis said he felt "there is still an elitism in this country that theater is the superior form". His dramatic training at the Bristol Old Vic School encouraged him to feel…
✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Theatre,Jermyn Street Theatre,Stage,Culture,#MeToo movement ✅ Key idea: yourAtherine Moar's gripping drama is inspired by American heiress Patty Hearst who served a prison sentence for a bank robbery organized by the far-left guerrilla group, the Symbionese Liberation Army. The group had kidnapped her months earlier and in court testimony she told how she was locked in a closet and raped during captivity.This memory play traces the aftermath of such a case through a fictional encounter between heiress Holly (Abigail Cruttenden) and the lawyer Robert (Nathaniel Parker) who lost…
🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Architecture,Art and design,Football,Sport,Culture,The RIBA,Liverpool,Tate Liverpool,Design,Art,UK news 📌 Key idea: forOne day, an ailing Shankly, a man so beloved by Liverpool that there is now a hotel in the city bearing his name, said: “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed in that attitude. I can assure you it is much more important than that.”Inevitably, Shankly appears in Home Ground, an exciting new exhibition about the architecture and social culture of football grounds. The legendary manager was pictured enjoying the…
✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Robert De Niro,Al Pacino,Film,Culture ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: RReaders of a certain age will remember the massive nuclear impact of Michael Mann's Heat upon its release in 1995. The film was not only officially ambitious and hugely influential, but it also marked the first time Al Pacino and Robert De Niro shared the screen.This, more than anything else, was the film's big draw. Two men, each believed to be the greatest actor of all time in the medium, battle against each other in real time. Their…
💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Film,Tessa Thompson,Henrik Ibsen,Culture 💡 Key idea: nia DaCosta and Tessa Thompson recall the first time they met, at Sundance Film Labs where DaCosta was working on her first film, Little Woods. “Honestly, Tessa had a great vibe,” DaCosta says. “She was so outgoing, so generous, so smart.” A smile creeps onto her face. “Like – that was a fucking relief.”Thompson gives a mock offense look. “I really like working with smart actors,” DaCosta adds, filling the silence. “Why did you assume we were stupid?” Thompson asks,…
🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Photography,Art and design,Culture,Environment,Animals,Art 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: THis photo captures a moment of fragile hope: the world's first rhino pregnancy via artificial insemination, a tiny embryo that has ignited optimism among scientists fighting to save the northern white rhino from extinction. There are only two female northern white rhinos left on the planet - Najin and her daughter Fatu. Neither of them can get pregnant due to health complications. The last male died in 2018, making the species functionally extinct.For the past 15 years, the BioRescue…
🚀 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Art,Art and design,Culture ✅ Here’s what you’ll learn: TClaire Fontaine's works are full of rich and complex objects and images whose state and meaning are constantly changing. There are jokes. There is handwritten watercolor text, copied over and over again, freeing the writer from the oppression of his predecessors (the book concludes with I am free). There's a raucous take on Marcel Duchamp's moustachioed, arched Mona Lisa, his salacious but baffling 1919 LHOOQ caption replaced with LGBTQ+. There are book covers about the devastated Palestinian environment and…
