π Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture π **What Youβll Learn**: Gordon Ramsay's Secret ServiceAt 10pm on Channel 4In a series that premiered in the US last year, Chef Ramsay returns with his brand of hard-hitting home truths on how to save struggling restaurants. This time, he uses surveillance to secretly gather information about what goes wrong before dredging. It begins at a family-run Greek place in Washington, D.C., where hygiene standards are said to be seriously lacking. Holly RichardsonOur dream of a Welsh church8pm on Channel 4Dealing with fate... Keith…
β¨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Culture,Black British culture,V&A,Art and design,Art,Music,Arlo Parks,Slick Rick,AJ Tracey β
**What Youβll Learn**: 'Can they play?' Can they bury people? Yes'Goldie: Chemistry and the Storm (Binary) by Eddie Otchery (1995)βThere is a picture of her in my studio in Thailand.β Photo: Β© Eddie OtchereI remember riding my bike down Camden High Street and passing Red or Dead. I saw this girl Kimmy, or Kimestry. She was mixed race, like me, and had blonde braids. incredible! We ended up going for coffee and started dating. She and her…
β¨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Documentary films,Film,Birds,Environment,Wildlife,Radio,Animals,Culture π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: IDuring his lifetime, the voice of pioneering German recordist Ludwig Koch was as familiar to British audiences as the voice of David Attenborough is today. His tireless passion for capturing bird sounds and introducing them first into the German language and, after his exile from Nazi Germany, into British homes via audiobooks and BBC radio, made him a household name from the late 1930s onwards.The Guardian's journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you purchase something through an affiliate…
π₯ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Olivier awards,Theatre,Rachel Zegler,Stage,Culture,Awards and prizes,West End,UK news,Andrew Lloyd Webber,Jamie Lloyd,Tim Rice π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: It was the most talked-about theatrical spectacle of the year: Rachel Ziegler performing Don't Cry for Me, Argentina from the balcony of the London Palladium to crowds gathered in the street below. At the Olivier Awards on Sunday night, Ziegler delivered the song from Evita again β this time on the stage of the Royal Albert Hall β and took home the award for Best Actress in a Musical.Host Nick Muhammad said…
π₯ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Edgar Wright,Simon Pegg,Nick Frost,Comedy films,Film,Comedy,Culture,Action and adventure films β
**What Youβll Learn**: WWith the endless movie library we all have at our fingertips, in our DVD collections and on any cloud, finding the best feel-good movies can be a deceptively difficult task. Although it seems obvious now, mine was so familiar to me that it somehow managed to hide in plain sight. Eventually, I had to ask my partner which movie she thought would be my comfort. She replied firmly: Hot Fuzz. And she is absolutely right.…
π₯ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Fiction,Books,Culture β
**What Youβll Learn**: WWhat happens when a novelist cares more about his plot or message than his prose? Plot and message have a lot in common: they travel more smoothly on corny lubricant. Thus you may find yourself enjoying, at the level of story or argument, a novel that ranges through groups of novels such as the following: βManicured Gardens,β βThe Apple of Their Fatherβs Eye,β βThe Reverend Patriarch,β βLittle did I know then,β βWatching the weather,β βMoney was tight,β βHardly words came out…
π₯ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: I, Daniel Blake,Film,Culture,Ken Loach,Drama films,Poverty,Food poverty,Benefits,Hayley Squires π **What Youβll Learn**: Ken Loach, directorIn 2016, we were β and still are β living in a time of meanness. If you were weak or needed support, you were punished, and there was constant denigration of people who needed help. I, Daniel Blake, was counting on it. It's a movie about the cruelty of a system that says, "Poverty is the fault of poor people. You don't struggle enough. You don't get enough job interviews." Dave Jones' character, Daniel…
π Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Film,Culture,Sam Neill,Drama films,Jurassic Park β
**What Youβll Learn**: TThere aren't many actors here who have gone down in cinema history simply by taking off a safari hat and a pair of sunglasses. But when you think of Sam Neill, you probably think of that moment in Jurassic Park when he stands in the Jeep, pulls down his shades, and stares slack-jawed at the towering Brachiosaurus. Don't let the explanation of how CGI worked in the '90s spoil you. "What I'm actually looking at is Steven Spielberg holding…
π Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Comedy,Stage,Comedy,Culture,Soho theatre,IVF,Fertility problems,Health,Society,Theatre,Parents and parenting π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: 'I βI know this show can be uncomfortable,β says Rikki Lindhome, sitting down at the keyboard after a song about pregnancy loss. But if Dead Inside is never a comfortable show, it's also funny, entertaining and highly emotionally involving. Hardcore viewers of shock comedy, a staple of fringe festivals lately, may be weary of the prospect of a βone-woman musical comedy about my fertility journey.β Their faith in form will be completely refreshed by this beautiful American's hour…
π₯ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Coachella,Karol G,Festivals,Music,Culture,Pop and rock β
**What Youβll Learn**: toDining on the final night of Coachella's first weekend, after more than a dozen songs, several stunning costume changes and some of the most beautiful dancing ever seen in a headlining set, Colombian superstar Karol G finally introduced herself in English: "I'm Carolina Giraldo from Medellin, Colombia, and today, I'm the first Latina to headline Coachella," she said to deafening cheers from a crowd dotted with Mexican and Puerto Rican flags. Venezuela, Colombia and other Latin countries. She added:…
