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My cultural awakening: Leonardo da Vinci made me rethink surgery – I’ve since repaired over 3,000 hearts | Leonardo da Vinci

My cultural awakening: Leonardo da Vinci made me rethink surgery – I’ve since repaired over 3,000 hearts | Leonardo da Vinci

🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Leonardo da Vinci,Art and design,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIf I had asked my teenage self, growing up in a small village in Shropshire, what I wanted to do with my life, I would have been talking about art and music long before I was talking about scalpel blades and operating theatres. When I was 18, I was going to go to art school, until my mother sat me down and told me flatly that being an artist wouldn't make me a lot of money. As she…
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TV Tonight: Bill Bailey is an amazing tour guide in Vietnam | TV and radio

TV Tonight: Bill Bailey is an amazing tour guide in Vietnam | TV and radio

✨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Vietnam Bill Billy7.15pm, Channel 4Amid a deluge of celebrity travel stories, Bill Bailey is actually an entertaining guide as he explores Vietnam (“I think of a sandwich I had in 1982,” he admits during one meditation session). Billy begins in Hoi An, an old international trading port, where he meets Chef Duc - an asylum seeker during the war who is now famous for his food. Next, it's time to get a jazzy suit made by the tailor in…
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Brigitte Bardot’s tribute at Cesar Awards ceremony greeted with boos | film

Brigitte Bardot’s tribute at Cesar Awards ceremony greeted with boos | film

🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Brigitte Bardot,France,Culture,Europe,World news,Awards and prizes,Islamophobia 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Brigitte Bardot's tribute at Cesar, France's version of the Oscars, on Thursday was met with boos. In a video clip posted on social media, boos can be clearly heard among the applause and tributes, and shouts of “racist!” Also audible.Bardot, who died in December at the age of 91, became the most famous figure in post-World War II French cinema for films such as “And God Created Woman” and “Contempt,” but after retiring from acting in the early…
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Kids & Teens Roundup – Best New Picture Books and Novels | Children and adolescents

Kids & Teens Roundup – Best New Picture Books and Novels | Children and adolescents

✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Children and teenagers,Books,Culture,Young adult 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Wonderland By Tom Percival, Simon & Schuster, £12.99It seems like Daniel's gray, wet day will never get better - until he hears music and everything changes. A subtly beautiful picture book about finding small moments of joy and wonder.The Big Green by Ken Wilson Max, Outer Barry, £12.99Maryam and Issa head into the desert to plant seedlings with their family and neighbors, and help build Africa's Great Green Wall in this rhythmic and colorful picture book, a rich…
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Add to playlist: Idrissi’s cliché-corrected medieval music and the best new tracks of the week | music

Add to playlist: Idrissi’s cliché-corrected medieval music and the best new tracks of the week | music

🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Folk music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: from London via Corsica/OccitaniaRecommended if you like Arooj Aftab, Maria Callas, The Choral Tragedy of Prioritizing Self-Esteem in an Age of Pleasurethe next New single “Dieus Sal la Terra” is out nowThe Idrissi Ensemble is a useful corrective to the stereotype of medieval music as smooth, pious, and serene. Hearing the howls of this London-based group – sometimes backed by up to 19 members – you are reminded of song's inexhaustible ability to conjure new pain.In 2016, Thomas Fornell, a Corsican…
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Tracey Emin’s lust for life, the gaudy Egyptian treasure, and Don McCullin at 90 – The Week in Art | Art and design

Tracey Emin’s lust for life, the gaudy Egyptian treasure, and Don McCullin at 90 – The Week in Art | Art and design

✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Art,Culture,Painting,Photography,Exhibitions,Tracey Emin,Don McCullin 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Exhibition of the weekTracey Emin: A second lifeThe most serious, intelligent and passionate artist of her generation proves that art can still touch us all and express the meaning of life. Tate Modern, London, until 31 Augustalso appearRamses and the Pharaoh's goldEgypt's most ambitious pharaoh, Ramesses II, brings his positive Trump vision to London in a megalomania-filled wonderland show. Rose Wylie: The picture comes firstThis cheerful, frenetic, and sometimes convincing painter struts her stuff. But it gets a…
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‘You’re cute – and I’m old!’: Billy Porter and Sam Morrison talk about collaborating on a comedy about love and death | comedy

‘You’re cute – and I’m old!’: Billy Porter and Sam Morrison talk about collaborating on a comedy about love and death | comedy

🔥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Comedy,Billy Porter,Stage,Diabetes,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Sugar Daddy is a one-man show about "love, grief and insulin" presented by 31-year-old Sam Morrison. An autobiographical monologue that turns tragedy into comedy, it tells how Morrison fell in love with Jonathan, who was 24 years his senior, after meeting him at the Gay Bear Festival in Provincetown, Massachusetts. In 2021, two and a half years into their relationship, Jonathan died of Covid.For the past four years, Morrison has been performing "Sugar Daddy" around the world; Next month, he…
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Spider-Man’s existence without Spider-Man makes no sense at all. Why won’t Sony include him? | film

Spider-Man’s existence without Spider-Man makes no sense at all. Why won’t Sony include him? | film

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Superhero movies,Sony Pictures,Spider-Man,Venom,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe old saying goes that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. This week's news that Sony is planning to reboot its much-vaunted, and now downright laughable, "Spider-Man Universe" shows that there must be a few Hollywood executives who still believe in it.Speaking on The Town podcast this week, Tom Rothman, the studio's CEO and head, was asked about the future of the bewildering superhero franchise that gave us three…
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Neil Sedaka, pop singer and hitmaker, has died at the age of 86. Neil Sedaka

Neil Sedaka, pop singer and hitmaker, has died at the age of 86. Neil Sedaka

✨ Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Neil Sedaka,Music,Pop and rock,Culture,US news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Neil Sedaka, the singer-songwriter behind Breaking Up Is Hard, Oh! Carole, Calendar Girl and Bad Blood, as well as numerous hits by other artists, including Stupid Cupid and Love Will Keep Us Together, has died at the age of 86.An actor confirmed his death to Variety on Friday, hours after he was taken to a hospital in Los Angeles. The cause of death was not mentioned.“Our family is devastated by the sudden death of our beloved husband, father…
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Review of A Thing of Beauty – Imogen Stubbs is radiant as roasted Nazi preacher Leni Riefenstahl | platform

Review of A Thing of Beauty – Imogen Stubbs is radiant as roasted Nazi preacher Leni Riefenstahl | platform

🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Theatre,Culture,Imogen Stubbs 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: SSince Peter Morgan's "Frost/Nixon" 20 years ago, there have been articles about famous TV interviews - James Graham's "The Best of Enemies", Doug Wright's "Good Night", an Oscar, and a TV drama about Emily Maitlis and Prince Andrew. A play about Michael Parkinson's studio bouts with Muhammad Ali is being prepared.Now A Thing of Beauty by Wendy Oberman and Jonathan Lewis imagines Leni Riefenstahl, director of Hitler's propaganda films (Triumph Of The Will) and lover of rumours, in London in 1972…
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