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TV Tonight: The horror of the devastating Sea Empress oil spill, 30 years on | television

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Black Water: The Sea Empress Disaster9pm on BBC Two"Horror. Absolute horror." It has been 30 years since the Sea Empress oil spill disaster caused one of the UK's most serious marine pollution incidents. Within hours of hitting rocks in the port of Milford Haven in Wales, 70,000 tonnes of oil flowed into the sea and spread across the Pembrokeshire coast. In this documentary, those who witnessed this horrific event tell their stories. Human resourcesTonight: Supermarket prices – does loyalty pay?At…

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‘The male ego is more fragile than it has ever been’: Kim Gordon on shyness, artificial intelligence and Zahran Mamdani | Kim Gordon

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🚀 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Kim Gordon,Music,Sonic Youth,Culture,Film,Pop and rock,Experimental music,Kristen Stewart,Zohran Mamdani,LL Cool J,Punk,Jean-Michel Basquiat,Art and design 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Do you plan to change rock music forever? Did you envision a career that would last decades, or was it all a bit random? NaphtsolimWhen Sonic Youth first started, there was a high level of music that did something people had never done before, and it was hard to know how to add to that. There was the Velvet Underground, who cast a huge shadow, and then all the non-wave…

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The Royal Ballet: Giselle Review – Mariana Tsimpinhoy soars in an indelible debut | Dance

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✨ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Dance,Ballet,Royal Ballet,Stage,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A A dancer's debut in one of ballet's great leading roles is always an event, but it is especially notable when that dancer is a senior artist—three ranks below principal in the ballet hierarchy. Twenty-five-year-old Mariana Tsimpinhoy is clearly tipped as a future star, and the Royal Ballet's faith in her seems well placed on the basis of her debut as the tragic peasant girl Giselle.From her first entrance, floating on stage, the Ukrainian dancer (who came to train in…

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Underscore: U Review – A super-fantasy author with the smartest pop wit | Pop and rock

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💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Pop and rock,Music,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: ABrielle Gray is an American bedroom producer who is beloved by an impressive array of other artists – experimental pop duo 100 Gecs are fans, as are rapper Danny Brown and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker – but until now it's been difficult to pinpoint her exact niche. It's a challenge to sum up the sound of the debut album she recorded under the name Underscores, 2021's Fishmonger, or its follow-up, a concept album about three young women residents of a…

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Principe Discos: How black DJs from the Lisbon suburbs made it the hottest record label in Europe | Dance music

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Dance music,Music,Culture,Portugal,Europe ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIt was just after 11:30pm on a Friday in early March, and the air at Lux Frágil was already thick with excitement. Groups of people stream down the stairs of the Lisbon Club, past a giant disco ball, and local DJ and producer Xexa dazzles the crowd with a live set of tracks. Soon, the disco downstairs will be filled with sweaty dancers of scene heroes DJ Marvox, DJ Nervoso, and Dariovox, their bodies colliding with the pulse-racing batidas.Come the early…

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Through the Centuries: Review of Madeleine Dring’s Song Album – dismisses any notion that she was not a serious composer | classical music

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🚀 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Music,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: forMadeleine Dring was born in 1923 and studied at the Royal College of Music, where her teachers included Herbert Howells and Vaughan Williams. An unconventional career, including stints in theatre, pantomime and cabaret, ended with her death of a brain aneurysm at the age of 53. Already a maverick, the fact that much of her music remained unreleased until the late 1990s threatened to condemn her to obscurity.Album artwork Through the Centuries: The Songs of Madeleine Dring Photo: ChandosEnter Kitty Whately…

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Audiobook review of The Barbecue at No 9 by Jenny Godfrey – Suburban Secrets and Lies | books

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIt happened in July 1985, two days before the historic Live Aid charity concert held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. Goth teen Hannah Gordon was asked by her mother, Lydia, to distribute invitations to their neighbors to meet at their house to "help the kids." Hannah suspects that Lydia's intentions may not be entirely charitable and that she wants to show off her new barbecue. But Hannah's long-suffering father, Peter, is not enthusiastic, complaining…

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‘My taste is superb. My eyes are exquisite’: Dianne Wiest’s 20 best film performances – ranked! | Film

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🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Culture,Woody Allen,Comedy films,Oscars 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Every great performer should have at least one baffling movie on their CV, and this curio, produced by Ismail Merchant, is Dianne Wiest’s. The plot is bananas: she plays an opera singer leading her gay teenage son to believe that his father (Simon Callow) is dead, by taking the boy to visit a fake grave each year. Guess what? He’s alive! Not for long, though: he’s soon murdered by his own gay pickup, with his son witnessing it all from…

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“Our lead actor doesn’t know he’s on a TV show!” The return of an incredible TV hoax | television

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🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Reality TV 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: If there was ever a TV show that you thought should be left behind for one season, it would be Jury Duty.The Amazon series became a slow, word-of-mouth hit until 2023 for pulling off a frankly unbelievable stunt: it succeeded in convincing one man, Ronald Gladden, that he was participating in a documentary set in a Los Angeles courtroom, when in reality, everything about the operation was shown and he was the only participant who wasn't an actor.Despite constant…

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In the deadly world of online gaming, there are no more successes – only survivors games

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Games,Shooting games,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: What does success look like for online video game developers? In 2026, the answer couldn't be clearer: no one has a clue.Consider Highguard, the first major flop of 2026. Signs were promising when it launched on January 26, with Steam hitting 100,000 concurrent players — in addition to those enjoying the game on PlayStation and Xbox, which doesn't announce player counts. As a free-to-play game, the barrier to entry for Highguard was low. And thanks to a major ad placement…

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