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‘It screws with your mind’: Jennie Garth on 90210 fame in her 20s – and speeding up in her 50s | Film

‘It screws with your mind’: Jennie Garth on 90210 fame in her 20s – and speeding up in her 50s | Film

✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,Podcasts ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A few years ago, Jennie Garth was feeling lost. Her three daughters were growing up – her eldest had already left home – and Garth was bored and unfulfilled. In March 2023, she noted in her diary that potential acting jobs were “few and far between, if at all really”. She rarely heard from her agent, and she didn’t want to get in touch with him “just to hear how different the business has become, how they just aren’t looking for a…
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‘I told him, “Go ahead, do it”’: Juliette Binoche on how a strangling attack as a teen inspired her directorial debut | Juliette Binoche

‘I told him, “Go ahead, do it”’: Juliette Binoche on how a strangling attack as a teen inspired her directorial debut | Juliette Binoche

🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Juliette Binoche,Documentary films,Film,Drama films,Culture,France,Dance,US theater,Theatre,Leos Carax,Akram Khan,World news,Stage ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Starring in more than 70 movies is all well and good, but Juliette Binoche can still get the jitters. Right now, the Oscar-winning actor is biting her lip on the third floor of a Manhattan high-rise. In 20 minutes, she will step into a sold-out movie theater to introduce her directorial debut at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Titled In-I In Motion, the vérité-style documentary follows Binoche’s late-2000s plunge into the world of contemporary…
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Female nudity and stinky art: key takeaways from the 2026 Venice Biennale | Venice Biennale 2026

Female nudity and stinky art: key takeaways from the 2026 Venice Biennale | Venice Biennale 2026

💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Venice Biennale 2026,Art and design,Culture,Art,Exhibitions,Protest,Pussy Riot,Russia,Italy,Europe,World news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Every two years the art world gathers in Venice for a sprawling celebration of the visual arts as countries 'compete' against each other for the award for best national pavilion. It is a barometer of taste, a shop window for artists, and the industry's greatest rendezvous – art historian Lawrence Alloway once described it as “a party of connection and communication.”This year, 99 countries are participating, including Somalia and Qatar, among seven first-time participants in…
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Joseph Fiennes on parenting, politics and banning children from social media: ‘Stand up, Keir, this is your kids’ generation’ | Joseph Fiennes

Joseph Fiennes on parenting, politics and banning children from social media: ‘Stand up, Keir, this is your kids’ generation’ | Joseph Fiennes

✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Joseph Fiennes,Culture,Film,Television,Theatre,Shakespeare in Love,Stage,Television & radio,The Handmaid's Tale,Ralph Fiennes,Gareth Southgate,James Graham,Rupert Goold 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: We are at a corner table in a breakfast place in Chelsea, Joseph Fiennes opposite me on the banquette with his jack russell, Noa. “Dog duty,” he says, apologetic. Noa looks at me, brown eyes also apologetic. They’ve been in Hyde Park, he says, he lost track, didn’t have time to take her home. Nature is where he’s at his best, where he feels cleansed, connected, observant – his sentences are…
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‘We’re not Lady Gaga and Elton John’: unmasking Angine de Poitrine, the year’s buzziest, dottiest band | Music

‘We’re not Lady Gaga and Elton John’: unmasking Angine de Poitrine, the year’s buzziest, dottiest band | Music

💥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Pop and rock,Culture,TikTok,Internet,Experimental music ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Recently, Angine de Poitrine had to get new heads. The alien-looking rock duo were not in fact born with the monochrome polka-dotted complexions and extruded faces that millions of listeners have obsessed over since they went viral this spring. Guitarist Khn has a long, twangable nose and double-necked guitar/bass; drummer Klek’s dangly proboscis bounces along to his stone-cold playing. Both are apparently 333-year-old time travellers primarily inspired by a solemn musical quartet of monkeys from Borneo. Over months of…
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Harriet Clark spent a lifetime visiting her mother, an ex-Weather Underground member, in prison: ‘The US has always used family separation to destabilize’ | Books

Harriet Clark spent a lifetime visiting her mother, an ex-Weather Underground member, in prison: ‘The US has always used family separation to destabilize’ | Books

🚀 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,US prisons,US news,Culture,Family,Children,Society 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: In Harriet Clark’s debut novel, The Hill, a nun explains what it’s like for babies born in prison. “They don’t know that they are in prison,” she says, “but they know when we force them to leave.”The book’s child protagonist is Suzanna, whose mother has been serving a life sentence for as long as she can remember. There is no expectation that Suzanna and her mother will have a relationship outside the prison’s walls. And yet, they do have a…
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‘Men are so frightened of being too cuddly or affectionate’: Danny Dyer on going from hardman to heart-throb in Rivals | Danny Dyer

‘Men are so frightened of being too cuddly or affectionate’: Danny Dyer on going from hardman to heart-throb in Rivals | Danny Dyer

🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Danny Dyer,Film,Culture,Television,Television & radio 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Danny Dyer is dressed in white and carrying a huge bouquet of flowers when I drop in on his Guardian photoshoot. “Hello, baby,” he says to me in a voice so bad-boy East End, so fabulously filthy, that he sounds like a parody of Danny Dyer. We’ve never met before, but you wouldn’t guess.Dyer has been in the limelight for 30 years, but never like this. As he approaches 50, he has become a middle-aged heart-throb. The week…
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‘We have to laugh at the site’s craziness’: Comedian Tim Heidecker on the appeal of becoming Infowars’ new president | comedy

‘We have to laugh at the site’s craziness’: Comedian Tim Heidecker on the appeal of becoming Infowars’ new president | comedy

🔥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Comedy,Culture,Internet,Media,Digital media,Law (US),Law,US press and publishing 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Tim Heidecker on Onion's potential takeover of Infowars: 'I think it'll be fun to play with for a while' [Jones] "And he kept reminding people how stupid he was." Composite: The Guardian/Getty ImagesIf you've followed Infowars over the years, you've probably heard a very angry man screaming about how the 2020 election was stolen for Joe Biden's "reanimated corpse," or chemicals in the water that make frogs gay, or the Sandy Hook school shooting, which killed 20…
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The death of the prince made me turn my life upside down and move to his hometown | Prince

The death of the prince made me turn my life upside down and move to his hometown | Prince

✨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Prince,Pop and rock,Music,Minneapolis,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I distinctly remember the first time I heard Prince. I was a dreamy, artistic kid growing up in rural Australia in the 1980s, and I felt completely out of place. One day, I turned toward the cassette radio in my bedroom, and heard something very different from the rock music I grew up with — upbeat, energetic music. It was the prince. My body moved. From that moment on, he became my secret soulmate, his music carrying a powerful mix…
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Strength in numbers: what have union documentaries over 50 years shown us? | Documentaries

Strength in numbers: what have union documentaries over 50 years shown us? | Documentaries

💥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Documentary films,Film,US unions,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: “W"We'd better start banding together, or they'll bury us, by God," says a meatpacking worker during a union meeting in Barbara Koppel's 1990 documentary "American Dream." It's a desperate plea for survival; "they" are the Hormel Foods Company, which took advantage of union chaos to replace a large portion of its workforce during a costly strike. 1985-1986 in Austin, Minnesota, as a symbol of the organized labor state of the United States - they called it an alternative to…
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