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Review of Ibram X. Kendi’s Thought Series – Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory | books

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture,The far right,Far right,Far right (US),Politics books 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Additional information? Weltschmerz? I've been searching and I don't think even the Germans have a word for how dominant the news cycle is right now. The area is well and truly flooded. Just as you start trying to process a traumatic event, something new hits the headlines.The Ideas Series, a new book by Professor Ibram X. Kendi, does not offer a one-world summary of our modern problems. But, in 500 meticulously researched pages, it establishes a…

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Grace Ives: Girlfriend review – Bedroom pop auteur turns to widescreen for a brilliant sobriety saga | music

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✨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Pop and rock 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: nNew Yorker Grace Ives broke out as a bedroom pop artist, self-producing No. 2, her 2019 debut, on her Roland MC-505 and carefully expanding her sound for 2022's catchy Janky Star. Her third album throws caution to the wind on hyper-detailed, windswept songs that pop like big-city street lights and shimmer with cosmic awe.A friend's artworkEve fled her bedroom in more than one sense. Junky Starr reflected her development into a healthy relationship with substances, yet she reached new…

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LIVE REVIEW – A family saga that races through six decades of life in Sheffield | stage

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Sheffield Theatres,Leo Butler,Sheffield 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: THere are some of the things they like to do at pantomime when an audience member seems to be arriving late. To get them going, there's a high-speed replay of the first ten minutes. Leo Butler's family saga creates something of the same effect—except that instead of bringing us up to speed in some scenes, it races boldly and comprehensively through the past six decades.We get 1969 and Neil Armstrong; 1971 and the decimal system; 1974 and Wombles; 1979…

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The best modern crime and thriller films – Review Report | books

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Crime fiction,Thrillers,Culture,Fiction 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 'Killing Me Softly' by Christy Watson (Phoenix, £20)In her second psychological thriller, Watson, a former nurse, perfectly captures the frenetic atmosphere and biting humor of a city hospital's under-resourced A&E department. The plot revolves around three strongly drawn characters: senior nurse Aoife, whose extramarital experiences with clinical leader Michael help keep her sane, and whose new intake includes the naive and hypocritical Eden and the more experienced but worryingly sarcastic Sophie. After they arrive, the death rate rises: long waiting times…

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Add to playlist: Femcels’ sharply observed electro track and the best new tracks of the week | music

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Indie,Pop and rock 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: from LondonRecommended if you like Celestial, CSS, Teensthe next I must be getting hotter nowFemcels' music is cheerful and melancholic, sometimes sarcastic but often sincere, often up-tempo, all delivered with wiry, unadorned vocals. In this sense, he is a reincarnation of the 1980s and 1990s; Go beyond their band name, and you'll find that Rowan Miles and Gabriella Turton have a lot to offer when it comes to exploring the chills and thrills of young womanhood in 2020s London.Following…

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The Secret Garden review – The classic children’s novel remade into a haunting musical | stage

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💥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Children's theatre,Musicals 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn this version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's book, the garden that bears her name is nowhere to be seen. York Theater Royal's revival of Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon's musical begins with the stage covered in dust sheets, setting the tone for what comes next. This is a bleak interior space, full of ghosts and secrets, where young newcomer Mary Lennox finally begins to shed some light.The ever-present spirit... Joanna Hickman as Lily and Dexter Bowling as Colin in…

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Don’t Mention the M Word: Are mutant X-Men about to appear en masse in Spider-Man: Brand New Day? | film

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✨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,Marvel,Spider-Man,Spider-Man: No Way Home,X-Men,Tom Holland,20th Century Fox 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThis was a time when even mentioning the term "mutant" in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was frowned upon. Rival studio 20th Century Fox owns the rights to the X-Men and with it the whole idea of ​​a parallel branch of humanity, meaning superheroes are contractually obligated to get their powers from elsewhere. Radiation accidents, experimental serums, Infinity Stones, and an unusually committed spider bite: Marvel has tried them all, but left the mutation alone. Sometimes, comic…

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‘She seemed to breathe the universe’: David Byrne, Flying Lotus and more on the greatness of Alice Coltrane | Alice Coltrane

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🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Alice Coltrane,Music,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt's been 19 years since Alice Coltrane's death and more than half a century since her most famous albums, but only now has her first autobiography, Andy Petta's Cosmic Music, been published. The first major exhibition dedicated to it was held last year also in Los Angeles, and musicians from the mainstream to the left have supported it, so much so that there are now an abundance of cosmic jazz guitarists on festival lineups. “For a long time it seemed like…

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‘We Didn’t Want to Play the Game’: How Ladytron Became an Unlikely Pop Survivor | music

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Indie,Ladytron,TikTok,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt was October 2001 in New York City, and Mira Arroyo and bandmate Robin Wu were invited to a new DJ party. The daring 200-meter Luxx on Brooklyn's Grand Street specialized in forgotten electro sounds from the 1980s. Party name? Electric clash.“It was us, the Peaches, the people from Berlin,” Arroyo recalls. Atlanta DJ and RuPaul collaborator Larry T booked them for their love of gems that Jenna X or Bobby O had overlooked. “It was fun, non-binary and joyful.”Back in Liverpool,…

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The Little Island Review – The Windrush Saga speaks to our times with startling clarity | stage

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Leeds Playhouse,Andrea Levy,Stage,Culture,Books,Matthew Xia ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A A novel more than two decades old, telling a story that began more than a century ago: what can an adaptation of Andrea Levy's Little Island tell us in the year 2026? Much of this is evident, as Helen Edmondson's adaptation is engagingly brought to the stage and speaks to our current times with startling clarity.Rufus Norris was head of the original production of the play at the National Theater in 2019. With its regional premiere, director Matthew…

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