🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Drama films,Film,Allison Janney,Culture,Comedy films,Comedy 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: HHollywood is currently in a strange but strangely exciting place, where no one is quite sure what kinds of “movies they don't make anymore” that they should start making again. We've seen period epics like Oppenheimer, sultry thrillers like The Housemaid, and female-led workplace comedies like The Devil Wears Prada 2 all become huge hits, and we're in the middle of a blockbuster year at the box office, trending toward pre-pandemic totals.But around the edges or between the cracks,…
🔥 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…
✨ 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…
✨ 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…
🚀 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…
🚀 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…
💥 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…
💥 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…
💥 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…
💥 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…
