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Add to playlist: Duo Ear’s weird, distorted electronics and the best new tracks of the week | music

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🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: from Hudson Valley, New York and LondonRecommended if you like Books, Lily, World Peace DMTthe next Rumspringa was released on May 29Jonah Paz and Yaelle Avtan recorded their first-ever song "Ear" on an iPhone in the Bard College library. That song, “Nerves,” pits their whiny voices against weightless strings and barely perceptible drums. Just as it seems about to float away completely, the track is suddenly overtaken by a screaming bass synth that splits the agonizing call of the first act into…

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‘I shouldn’t be allowed to do interviews’: Nish Kumar on controversy and clashes with comics | Nish Kumar

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Nish Kumar,TV comedy,Comedy,Culture,Television,Stage 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: nIsh Kumar - a mop of curly hair, wearing a Jimi Hendrix T-shirt, a sumptuous cake in hand - sits centimeters from me in the conference room of his advertising offices in Soho, central London. However, there is another comedian who is turning heads. On the wall is a huge poster promoting Prime Video's Last One Laughing UK - and looming above us from the center of the frame is the show's host, Jimmy Carr.This seems, let's just say, a…

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‘It’s shocking the amount of times I’m called a pedophile online’: Inside Russell T Davies’s chilling drama about rising hatred | television

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Russell T Davies,Alan Cumming,David Morrissey,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: toWe ate at night on Manchester's Canal Street, the heart of the city's famous gay scene, where two neighbors were at war. The escalating feud between gay bar manager Leo (Alan Cumming) and reserved neighbor Clive (David Morrissey) shows no sign of abating. Leo's screams are so loud that they echo down the canal. The street isn't closed to the public while their altercation breaks out, so you can't tell who is the employee in the…

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‘I Lived Near a Serial Killer’: Stephen Shearer on Turning Teenage Angst and Death Metal into High Art | coloring

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Painting,Art,Art and design,Culture,Metal ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: STen Shearer is a quiet man. He's also distant, shy and aloof. It is difficult to schedule an interview. Once you do that, it will be difficult to get him to talk. The Canadian artist probably thinks his work—which spans 40 years and multiple media, including striking paintings of long-haired teens, custom photo collages, and billboard-sized poetry inspired by heavy metal lyrics—speaks for itself. But Shearer's work does not express reality, at least not clearly; He awkwardly mumbles under his…

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Don’t: Camille Henrot Review – A Surreal Psychosexual Drama for the Digitally Weary | art

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🚀 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,Art and design,Culture,Digital art,Painting,Drawing 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: CEmile Henrot is accustomed to dealing with the vast and the unknown. She was asking the big questions. Who are we? Where did we come from? Why do we do what we do? Her 2014 show at Chisenhall in London was about the origins of humanity and Darwinism, and her film Gross Weariness is about the creation of the universe. But in her latest work, the French artist has moved towards the introspective, the quiet, the small and the…

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ONCE REVIEW – Gorgeous romance transcends spectacle and defies jazz | platform

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Culture,Theatre,Pitlochry Festival theatre,Musicals ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: When “Once” opened on Broadway in 2012, later to enjoy a run in London’s West End, it was greeted with a degree of surprise. You can see why. In terms of the Great White Way, it is anti-music.Based on the 2007 John Carney film, with a book by Enda Walsh and songs by Glenn Hansard and Marketa Irglova, it's unusual not only to have a stripped-down production by John Tiffany set in a pub room created by Bob Crowley…

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If CMAT is an affront to the male gaze and Olivia Rodrigo indulges in it, how exactly should women dress? | He punched

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💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: CMAT,Olivia Rodrigo,Music,Pop and rock,Culture,Women,Society 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: FOr an eye-catching look for Spring/Summer 2026, why not try one of the fun ways you can dress for misogyny? There is false concern with buttons. Highly skilled arrogant nose glasses. Feather snakes scattered in anger. If you're really so bold, why not wear a full Christmas suit of naked disgust? There seem to be far more acceptable options than there are for dressing like a famous pop star in 2026. And between the parallel hype over the very…

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‘I laughed out loud dozens of times’: authors choose books to make you fall back in love with reading | Books

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Malala YousafzaiActivistI have loved going to the theatre ever since I saw my first musical (Matilda in London, when I was 15 years old) – and I love reading about it, too. In Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad, a British-Palestinian actor travels to the West Bank to see family and finds herself pulled into a local production of Hamlet. I was moved by the rehearsal scenes: arguments over translations, personal relationships, the question of whether a performance is even possible under Israeli…

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‘I want to hit 100’: Derek Jacobi on Aids, ageing and failing to boil an egg | Film

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💥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Derek Jacobi,Culture,Stage,Television,Francis Bacon,Lucian Freud,William Shakespeare,Television & radio 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Derek Jacobi is chatting to the photographer in the living room. His voice is unmistakeable – rich, buttered, every sentence beautifully parsed and phrased. I’m in the kitchen with his husband, Richard Clifford, who is making coffee. He tells me they have been together 47 years. “We met when I was 22 and he was 39.”“I’m a child snatcher,” guffaws Jacobi from the lounge.While Clifford is an actor and director who has enjoyed some success, Jacobi…

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‘Depraved in all the right ways’: why forgotten no wave visionary Gordon Stevenson is about to take off | Art

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💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,Art and design,Culture,New York,Punk 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Gordon Stevenson was a mover and a shaker within late-70s New York, back when the city was, in the words of photographer Julia Gorton, “a nihilistic playground for people with trauma”. Tall, rail-thin, hair cut into a severe widow’s peak, Stevenson was an artist, jewellery designer, musician and the auteur behind one of no wave cinema’s most notorious works, Ecstatic Stigmatic.Four decades after his death, however, he’s best remembered as a footnote in other people’s stories. That’s all about…

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