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Crime 101 for the Little Prophets: Week of Enthusiastic Reviews | culture

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Television,Film,Books,Music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: televisionIf you only watch one, do it...Minor ProphetsBBC iPlayerLauren Battle as Casey and Pierce Quigley as Michael in Little Prophets. Image: BBC/Treasure Trove/Blue House ProductionsSummarize in a sentence Mackenzie Crook follows up Detectorists with a brilliant slice of gentle, supernatural-themed comedy about a man's attempts to find out what happened to his girlfriend who disappeared seven years ago.What our reviewer said "Little Prophets is pure, unadulterated fun." Jack SealeRead the full reviewFurther reading “Watching The Office Lately, My Heart Just Sank” -…

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From Wuthering Heights to Mario Tennis Fever: Your complete entertainment guide for next week | culture

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✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Music,Stage,Dance,Theatre,Film,Television,Television & radio,Art,Art and design,Games ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Checkout: cinemaWuthering HeightsOut nowIn the Cunning and Windswept Moors, writer-director Emerald Fennell has constructed a new interpretation of Emily Brontë's classic. Margot Robbie stars as Cathy, while Jacob Elordi plays Heathcliff, and as you might expect from the film director behind Saltburn, the passionate duo are prepared to leave no high unturned.It's never over, Jeff BuckleyOut nowVery few musicians have had the impact that Jeff Buckley has had over such a short period of time. This documentary from…

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Labubus to the burkini: V&A unveils updated design exhibitions for the 21st century | Victoria and Albert

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: V&A,Art and design,Culture,Exhibitions,Design,Heritage,Museums,London,UK news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: What do the first-ever baby monitor, Nigeria's 2018 World Cup paraphernalia, a streaming device from the 1980s, the smashed parts of Edward Snowden's computer, a "Please Give Me a Seat" badge and a Labobo device have in common? They are all included in the V&A's Design 1990-Now galleries, which will reopen to the public this week.The galleries, which extend across two rooms on the upper floors of the museum, house a collection of antique books. The presentations cover…

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‘Stabbed in the Face soundtracked an incredibly joyous time’: the weirdest songs we find romantic | Music

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💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Valentine's Day,Culture,Pop and rock,Experimental music,Electronic music,John Lydon,Gary Numan,Amy Winehouse,Einstürzende Neubauten,Leona Lewis,Stephen Malkmus,Public Image Ltd 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Wolf Eyes – Stabbed in the FaceBy Easter 2004, I’d been in a relationship with my partner, Maria, for four months and I was just realising how deeply in love I was. We had become inseparable. A magazine sent me to the ATP festival at Pontins in Camber Sands to interview “the Beastie Boys of noise”, Wolf Eyes. The interview fell to pieces when the band, in a state…

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‘I took it down one little house at a time’: Trucker who spent decades building tiny replica of New York City | art

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,New York,US news,Art and design,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn 2003, Joe McCain built a scale model of a bridge out of popsicle sticks. He wanted it to look like a "hybrid" of the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg Bridges. Soon after, McCain, who grew up in Middle Village, Queens, moved his family to a small town upstate, more than 160 miles from the city. McCain loaded his bridge onto the moving truck. Didn't make the trip.“It was destroyed, and I felt kind of upset,” said McCain, now…

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‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform | Tracey Emin

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Tracey Emin,Art,Art and design,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: There is a long buildup before I get to see Tracey Emin – her two cats, Teacup and Pancake, preceding her like a pair of slinky sentries as she walks into the white-painted basement kitchen of her huge Georgian house in Margate. The lengthy overture is because – though I’ve been invited for noon – Emin is a magnificently late riser. Her average working day, her studio manager Harry tells me, runs from about 6pm to 3am. And so, while…

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PETA calls for pork-free menus as Peppa Pig show begins in Grimsby | Children’s theater

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Children's theatre,Peppa Pig,Television & radio,Theatre,Farm animals,Stage,Peta,Culture,Vegan food and drink,Veganism,Vegetarian food and drink,Vegetarianism,Life and style,Food,Children's TV,Lincolnshire,UK news,Farming,Environment,Animal welfare,Animals 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Campaigners are calling on theater bosses to stop serving bacon, sausages and ham in their cafes - at least while Peppa Pig and her family are performing in the same building.Grimsby Auditorium in Lincolnshire said this week it would remove pork from the menu when Peppa Pig's Big Family Show opens next month, following a request from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta UK).…

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My Cultural Awakening: “Thirteen affected my enjoyable youth, until a psychotic episode ended it” | culture

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💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Film 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: AAt the age of 13, it felt like almost overnight, I went from a happy, musical theater-loving kid to a sad, lonely teenager. The things I cared about only yesterday suddenly became irrelevant, as I realized that nothing and no one mattered, least of all me. It is a worry that adults often have difficulty remembering or understanding; As the famous line from the movie The Virgin Suicides says: “Clearly, Doctor, you were never a 13-year-old girl.”When I went to an all-girls…

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How America’s Next Top Model turned into a horror TV show

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✨ Read this trending post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Looking back at it with a 2025 lensIt will be interesting to see how the concept of the show changes again with the streaming of the Netflix series. Banks takes the opportunity to express some remorse for what happened: "I knew I went too far. I lost her..." she says of her infamous moment of rage. Mock also feels remorse: “I take full responsibility for this photo shoot,” he says of the popular “Crime Scene” challenge. "It was a mistake. I look back now and…

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‘There’s only one bed’, ‘fake dating’ and ‘opposites attract’: how tropes took over romance | Romance books

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🚀 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Romance books,Books,Fiction,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Opposites attract. He falls first. Coffee shop. Forced proximity. Sports romance. University sports romance. Ivy League university sports romance! Best friend’s brother. Brother’s best friend. Slow burn. Age gap. Amnesia. Wounded hero. Single father. Single mother. Language barrier. The bodyguard. Fake dating. Marriage of convenience.If this list means nothing to you, you’re not a romance reader. Tropes, as these bullet-point ideas have come to be known, have taken over romance. Those who write, market and read romantic fiction use them…

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