🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Deborah Levy,Gertrude Stein,Fiction,Books,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe narrator of Deborah Levy's clever story of "fiction"—"fiction" is not the right word for this uncategorizable book—believes that Gertrude Stein would have loved Sigmund Freud. She imagines them enjoying cigars together while their wives make small talk. Could Frau Freud have exchanged her recipe for boiled beef with Alice B [Toklas]“Hashish candy recipe”? They never met (although, with her interest in the “underpersonality” and his interest in the “unconscious,” Stein and Freud had much to talk about), but…
🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music,Opera ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TIn the morning I met Oliver Merz, director of the opera at Covent Garden, and I still walked on air. The other day I saw Wagner's epic Siegfried, part three of the Ring Cycle. Clocking in at nearly six hours, the film is an immersion into the world of gods and giants, heroes and warrior women – but also deep and poignant human relationships. With the wonderful Andreas Schager in the title role among a wonderful cast, this is Royal Opera…
🚀 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture 📌 **What You’ll 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…
✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Black British culture,V&A,Art and design,Art,Music,Arlo Parks,Slick Rick,AJ Tracey ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 'Can they play?' Can they bury people? Yes'Goldie: Chemistry and the Storm (Binary) by Eddie Otchery (1995)“There is a picture of her in my studio in Thailand.” Photo: © 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…
✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Documentary films,Film,Birds,Environment,Wildlife,Radio,Animals,Culture 💡 **What You’ll 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…
🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Olivier awards,Theatre,Rachel Zegler,Stage,Culture,Awards and prizes,West End,UK news,Andrew Lloyd Webber,Jamie Lloyd,Tim Rice 💡 **What You’ll 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 — this time on the stage of the Royal Albert Hall — and took home the award for Best Actress in a Musical.Host Nick Muhammad said…
💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Edgar Wright,Simon Pegg,Nick Frost,Comedy films,Film,Comedy,Culture,Action and adventure films ✅ **What You’ll 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.…
💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Fiction,Books,Culture ✅ **What You’ll 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: “Manicured Gardens,” “The Apple of Their Father’s Eye,” “The Reverend Patriarch,” “Little did I know then,” “Watching the weather,” “Money was tight,” “Hardly words came out…
💥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: I, Daniel Blake,Film,Culture,Ken Loach,Drama films,Poverty,Food poverty,Benefits,Hayley Squires 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Ken Loach, directorIn 2016, we were – and still are – 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…
🚀 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,Sam Neill,Drama films,Jurassic Park ✅ **What You’ll 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…
