✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TThe second series of Dinosaurs begins on the Isle of Wight – just a seven-hour drive and ferry from our heroine's beloved Glasgow. my darling. Nina (Ashley Storey) has spent eight months excavating, the job she got at the end of series one, and despite her discovery of a metazoan dung beetle and connection with an old American man called Clayton who is so charming that he can call her 'Scotland' and get away with it, she is homesick.She…
🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,Coen brothers,Sam Mendes 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Roger Deakins – cinematographer to the Coen brothers, Martin Scorsese and Sam Mendes, whose work has earned him 14 Oscar nominations and two wins, five Baftas, a knighthood and a reputation for being the greatest practitioner of his craft alive – is struggling to explain just exactly what he does. “Argh!” he exclaims, when confronted by the question: what is cinematography?“Well, I started off trying to be a still photographer, someone like Don McCullin. And it’s been a whole arc through…
✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump,Books,Culture,US news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn February of last year, Donald Trump held his first full Cabinet meeting of his second term in the White House. He has proudly announced his intention to impose sweeping tariffs on the United States' closest allies in Europe. When a reporter asked him whether Europe might respond, Trump seemed confident. “They can't,” he said. Pressed to clarify, he continued, "We are a pot of gold. We are the one everyone wants. They can take revenge, but it cannot be…
🔥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Opera,Classical music,Culture,Music,English National Opera (ENO),Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: nFor a long time, Così Fan Tutte seemed full of pitfalls. On the surface, Mozart and Da Ponte's operas are full of cynicism, cruelty and outdated sexual politics: if the production hovers above these, isn't that a retreat? Now, though - and this week in particular - you could argue that Phelim McDermott's 2014 ENO is a relief, presenting these issues with witty embellishment and presenting them as pure entertainment.The prologue sets up what's to…
💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Bad Bunny,Super Bowl,Super Bowl LX,Music,US news,Puerto Rico,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe morning after the January 3 US military operation in Venezuela, in which Nicolás Maduro was captured, the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily closed airspace in parts of the Eastern Caribbean, extending my stay in St. Kitts by an unexpected additional week. At the mercy of regulations that determine which lanes will open when, and who will be directed where, a busy customer service agent suggested that I charter a boat to nearby St. Maarten, fly to…
🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Fyodor Dostoevsky,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: DOstoyevsky wrote his 1866 novella, The Gambler, in 30 days to pay off his gambling debts, having bet the publishing rights to his past and future works upon the book's completion. It is difficult to imagine the frantic effort of such an endeavor. But watching this adaptation from Kyoto-based Chiten Theater Company will give you a sneak peak: It's a stunning and challenging 90 minutes — especially for those unfamiliar with the plot.Compiled from fragments of Dostoyevsky's text — which charts…
✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Pop and rock,Music,Culture,Maximo Park ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TRelby prepares to dance with his suit pulled up, Paul Smith leaps from a drum riser with a scissor kick, and for just one moment, as the singer dangles in the air, he could be a cover of A Certain Player – the album being celebrated in Glasgow tonight.Debut for Maxïmo Park at the age of 21. Has he reached the age of majority? Not exactly. It sounds like a lot for its time, all raspy riffs and…
💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WIts pieces together fragments. Distorted voice notes, the depth of a comments section, and snippets of conversation make up James Nash's Little Nightmare. By deconstructing the internet and the violence it hosts, The Guidelines traces the aftermath of a murder filmed on a phone, as its impact ripples outward into real life and onto our screens.Pip Williams' clean direction is immediately unsettling. Rachel Leah Husker and Alex McCauley oscillate between social media social guidelines with constant, fierce smiles, playing a pair…
💥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Chadwick Boseman,Culture,Stage,Music,Black Panther,Film,Marvel,Cancer,Health 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Simone Ledward Boseman is reflecting on the five years that have passed since the death of her husband, actor and writer Chadwick Boseman. “The edges of grief get less sharp over time,” she says. “Five years definitely feels like a marker. I’ve had to gradually figure out how I talk about Chad. What do I want to share, and what do I feel comfortable sharing? Can I find something that I might want to share in the midst of something…
💥 Explore this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture,Science and nature books,Philosophy books,Science,Psychology 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Several years ago, Michael Pollan had a disturbing encounter. The relentlessly curious journalist and author was at a conference on plant behaviour in Vancouver. There, he’d learned that when plants are damaged, they produce an anaesthetising chemical, ethylene. Was this a form of self-soothing, like the release of endorphins after an injury in humans? He asked František Baluška, a cell biologist, if it meant that plants might feel pain. Baluška paused, before answering: “Yes, they should feel pain.…
