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Evening Review All Afternoon – Erin Keleman makes her stage debut as the prickly stepdaughter | stage

Evening Review All Afternoon – Erin Keleman makes her stage debut as the prickly stepdaughter | stage

✨ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Donmar Warehouse,Wallace Stevens,Books,Poetry 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: THere are many clever insights into Anna Ziegler's spare and sensitive film, which features the exciting theatrical debut of screen star Erin Keleman. She couldn't be more confident as Delilah, the posh half-American daughter in mourning, who has a prickly relationship with her conceited British stepmother, Jennifer (Anastasia Healy).Brilliantly directed by Diane Zora, the play is both a narration (narrated by the women in the third person) and a representation of their developing relationship within an onstage circle, which…
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Source close to Rolling Stones disputes Melania producer’s claim that Mick Jagger ‘gave his blessing’ to use song | film

Source close to Rolling Stones disputes Melania producer’s claim that Mick Jagger ‘gave his blessing’ to use song | film

🚀 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Melania,Melania Trump,Mick Jagger,The Rolling Stones,Pop and rock,Culture,US news,Guns N' Roses,Grace Jones,Prince,Music,World news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A source close to Mick Jagger has questioned the veracity of Mick Jagger's claims Melania's producer Mark Beckman said his team was closely involved with the singer over the use of the Rolling Stones song in the film.The film, which follows the First Lady in the 20 days leading up to Donald Trump's second inauguration in January 2025, begins with a sequence set to the Mar-a-Lago soundtrack by the Rolling Stones'…
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‘We Friend at the Bar – With Lyrics Attached’: Black Box Recorder’s Dazzling Comeback, Thanks to Billie Eilish | Pop and rock

‘We Friend at the Bar – With Lyrics Attached’: Black Box Recorder’s Dazzling Comeback, Thanks to Billie Eilish | Pop and rock

🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Pop and rock,Indie,Music,Culture,Luke Haines ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: COn Moore, guitarist for Black Box Recorder, adopts a weary tone as he tells this story. "Our daughter said to us, 'Have you heard of Billie Eilish?' His reaction was not what she expected. He said: “Yes.” “You ruined our retirement.” This spring, he, Luke Hines, and singer Sarah Nixie (the mother of said daughter, though long separated from Moore) will return to the stage for the first time since 2009, thanks in part to their stratospheric streaming numbers…
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Two skinheads preparing what was seized from a neo-Nazi party: Best photo of Leo Reagan | Art and design

Two skinheads preparing what was seized from a neo-Nazi party: Best photo of Leo Reagan | Art and design

🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Far right,Photography 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn 1990, I was working in photojournalism but I was doing music photography to make money. At the time, there was a rise in neo-Nazi music, with bands like Skrewdriver and the Blood and Honor movement. I initially intended to write a magazine article about it, but it grew into a much larger project and I ended up spending two years following these people around the country. This led to a book and a documentary.It was a difficult project…
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Phil Collins, Mariah Carey and Lauryn Hill among those nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | music

Phil Collins, Mariah Carey and Lauryn Hill among those nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | music

🔥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Pop and rock,Phil Collins,Mariah Carey,Lauryn Hill,Sade,Wu-Tang Clan,R&B,Hip-hop,Shakira,Iron Maiden 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Phil Collins, Mariah Carey, Lauryn Hill, INXS, Iron Maiden, Luther Vandross and Shakira are some of the 2026 nominees for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a broad network that includes rap, metal, R&B, hip-hop, Britpop, blues-rock and pop.The hall revealed a list of 17 nominated artists on Wednesday, a list that also includes Melissa Etheridge, Jeff Buckley, Pink, New Edition, Sade and Wu-Tang Clan.Billy Idol and Joy Division/New Order return to…
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Taliban burn musical instruments in the name of morality. It is an attack on the entire culture music

Taliban burn musical instruments in the name of morality. It is an attack on the entire culture music

✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Classical music,Folk music,Afghanistan,Taliban,Islam,Culture,South and central Asia,Middle East and north Africa,World news,Human rights,Law,Religion 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe horrors of Taliban rule in Afghanistan are universal. New laws effectively legalizing domestic violence mean that every woman in the country now lives with the threat of state-sanctioned violence. In the context of the dual tragedies of the Taliban's fundamentalist zeal, and the silence of the rest of the world in the face of the atrocities committed by this movement, the fate of cultural life in Afghanistan may seem like…
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Why Xbox’s corporate change is important for everyone who plays games | games

Why Xbox’s corporate change is important for everyone who plays games | games

🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Games,Culture,Xbox,Microsoft,AI (artificial intelligence),PlayStation,Halo,Fortnite,Minecraft ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: AAnd so everything changes on Xbox. It was announced last Friday that Microsoft's gaming chief executive, Phil Spencer, will retire, while its president, Sarah Bond, will resign. In its place is a new partnership: Matt Botti, head of Xbox Game Studios, has been promoted to chief content officer, while the new CEO is Asha Sharma, who moves from her position as head of Microsoft's CoreAI product.In a company-wide email, Spencer said he would stay on through the summer in an…
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‘The biggest commercial force of all time’: Why did the Oscars peak in 1998?

‘The biggest commercial force of all time’: Why did the Oscars peak in 1998?

✨ Check out this awesome post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Although Titanic was exceptional, it was part of a broader pattern: many of the best picture winners of the 20th century were also among the most profitable films of their respective years. “From 1927 to 1976, nearly 90% of Best Picture Oscars were awarded to films that were also in the 10 highest-grossing pictures of the year,” film historian Gene Del Vecchio wrote in the Huffington Post in 2014. "Academy voters and audiences alike enjoyed serious romantic dramas like Casablanca, adventures like Around the…
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Marty Supreme’s ping pong grip is exciting but the stage plot really breaks it | stage

Marty Supreme’s ping pong grip is exciting but the stage plot really breaks it | stage

💥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Marty Supreme,Film,Culture,Timothée Chalamet,Gwyneth Paltrow,Broadway,Table tennis,Sport,Acting 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: CMarty Supreme, the nerve-racking ping-pong player played by Osh Safdie, races through ambition, vanity, humiliation, deceit, soaring glory, crushing failure and the timeless allure of an eleventh-hour comeback. I realized all this after hours of playing table tennis in our local park. But I also realize it from nights spent at the theater – perhaps not the plays themselves, but the theater as the crucible for the careers of those involved. The film's subplot, revolving around the charged…
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Tracey Emin: Second Life review – This display of undiluted love, heartache and pain left me a tearful wreck | Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin: Second Life review – This display of undiluted love, heartache and pain left me a tearful wreck | Tracey Emin

✨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Tracey Emin,Art,Art and design,Culture,Tate Modern 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IDon't feel as if you're intruding. Stepping into Trace Emin's massive exhibition curated by Tate Modern is like walking into her crying, naked, sobbing and snotty, as if you've stumbled upon something painfully private.It's not easy to achieve in the cavernous spaces of our leading contemporary art institution, but that's what makes Tracey - it doesn't seem right to call her a curator, she brings you so close to knowing her, it's Tracey, right? - Such a distinguished…
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