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‘A Statement on Shifting Power’: Why Bad Bunny Wore Zara to His Super Bowl Parade | Bad bunny

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💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Bad Bunny,Super Bowl,Super Bowl LX,Fashion,Life and style,Music,NFL,Culture,Sport,Zara ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: HeyAmong the many cultural flashpoints of Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime performance on Sunday, one that few observers expected was his decision to wear not one but two outfits from the Spanish brand Zara.As the most-watched event on American television, the halftime performance represents a marketing moment for the stars. From Rihanna's pregnancy reveal to Kendrick Lamar's show-stealing jeans, the 13-minute show was often filled with luxurious fashion.Bad Bunny performs during Apple Music's halftime show at…

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Review of Ann Lee’s Testament with Danielle Bloomberg and Amanda Seyfried – Screams, Bells and Bruised Beauty | Experimental music

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Experimental music,Jazz,Classical music,Music,Culture,Film 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A A few days ago, Amanda Seyfried was on Graham Norton's sofa alongside Strictly's Margot Robbie and Johannes Radebe. Tonight, the Mean Girls, Les Misérables and Mamma Mia star sits among a different group of superstars: key figures from London's avant-garde jazz scene.The link here is to composer Daniel Blomberg. When he accepted an Oscar last year for his extraordinary score for The Brutalist, Blomberg chose the name Otto's Café, the Dalston venue whose impromptu musicians have long been…

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Melania drops 67% at US box office as Rotten Tomatoes defends record audience scores | Melania

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Melania,Film industry,Amazon,Business,US news,Melania Trump,Film,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Melania, Brett Ratner's authorized documentary that follows the First Lady in the 20 days leading up to Donald Trump's inauguration in January 2025, fell 67% in its second week of US release.The film exceeded expectations during its first weekend, earning $7.2 million domestically and leading Amazon to expand its rollout from about 1,500 venues to just over 2,000. But indications are that appetite has already diminished, with Sunday's forecast standing at $2.3 million, meaning a drop from third to…

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Sony Pictures CEO calls Trump’s racist video “despicable” in rare intervention | film

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🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Sony Pictures,Culture,Donald Trump,Barack Obama,Michelle Obama,Awards and prizes,Race,US news,World news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In an unusual intervention, Hollywood studio boss Tom Rothman has described Donald Trump's posting of a racist video featuring former US President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as "despicable".The comments were reported by The Hollywood Reporter and were made as Rothman was speaking at the African American Film Critics Association Awards, where he accepted an IMPACT Award on behalf of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, of which Rothman serves as president…

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The amazing discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb

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✨ Explore this insightful post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Listen to a 1939 BBC recording of Tutankhamun's trumpets found in his tomb.Tutmania was reborn in the 1970s with the international success of the Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition. Its most important attraction, the Golden Mask, attracted more than 1.6 million visitors to the British Museum in 1972, and remains the most popular exhibition of all time. The show then traveled to the Soviet Union for two years. It then toured six US cities between 1976 and 1979, where it created such a sensation that it…

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Larry (they/them) Review – A Photographer’s Colorful Creative Journey into Everyday Life | film

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🔥 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Transgender,Canada,Photography,Americas,Art and design,Culture,Society,World news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: FOr non-binary photographer Lawrence Philomene, art, life, and identity are intimately intertwined. Although drawn from art history, their photographs have a distinct pastel touch. Capturing whimsical subjects, including Philomene herself, in relaxed poses, these images bloom in soft hues of pink, purple and blue – the full rainbow. This style seems to seep into Catherine Legault's intimate documentary, which vividly depicts not only the artist's creative process, but also their daily lives.Philomene's home, just like their work, is…

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‘The music can’t stop for three days’: How Sirat went on a road trip into the dark heart of rave | film

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🔥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Thrillers,Drama films,Music,Culture,Dance music,Music festivals,Electronic music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn the opening scene of Oliver Lax's existential mystery thriller Sirat, a crowd of partygoers assemble a sound system to party in the southern Moroccan desert, where the film's protagonists' paths cross for the first time. Lax explains that the most important thing is that the revelers were not just ordinary extras. Most of them were devotees who had traveled their whole lives to attend the temporary festival from all over Europe. One of the DJs who played,…

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‘I don’t blame Bond for ruining my career’: Meriem Dabo plays a stage-thief writer – and a sniper cellist in 007 | platform

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Theatre,Film,James Bond,Culture,The Living Daylights,Documentary films,Books ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: SPanish Oranges, Alba Arekha's twisty drama about artistic creativity and the price of fame in married life, begins with a prickly confrontation between a famous writer and the journalist interviewing her. The novelist, Fiona, is disturbed when the recording begins, and balks when he questions whether her novel is autobiographical. She squirms and pauses until he ends up asking questions with his back turned, to make it less serious.Things were not going well in our video call when…

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Two Women, No Limits, No Rules: This Week’s Best Podcasts | TV and radio

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Podcasts ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Choose the weekIgnore this feeling“Obviously the theme of this podcast is that we try to talk about a topic and immediately get sidetracked.” So say comedians Alison Spittle and Fern Brady about their new show. It's a highly entertaining journey through topics including Lily Allen's "narcissist breakup album" West End Girl, sex ("more people freeze in England than in Ireland") and the length of pigs' orgasms (up to 90 minutes!). Lots of fun. Alexey DugginsWidely available, weekly episodes, from…

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TV Tonight: Mackenzie Crook’s Beautiful New Supernatural Sitcom | television

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Mackenzie Crook ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Minor Prophets10pm on BBC TwoA new supernatural comedy series from Mackenzie Crook. Oddball Michael (Pearce Quigley) is the bearded Miss Havisham, who lives in the house his partner left seven years ago and never returned to. But his father, Brian (Michael Palin), who has moved into foster care, says he knows a way to finally find answers — and it involves using a little chemistry to grow humans (little humans). Brian just needs to find the recipe to conjure…

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