✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,JS Bach,Classical music,Music ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen I found a cassette tape of Bach-Busoni Chaconne, at the age of seven, this is how I imagine a child would feel when he sees Messi playing football and thinks: I should do that with my life. By then, I had been sexually abused by a teacher for two years, and despite showing all the signs of trauma—night terrors, tremors, bed-wetting, persistent stomach aches—I obediently kept his secret. For me, the world was a war zone of pain. I…
🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,Television 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: CFar-flung stories, from Cast Away to The Martian, are often feel-good classics. They are tales of a brilliant person overcoming enormous odds, a triumphant metaphor for the human spirit. Here's a funny thing: Outcast stories that depict large groups of people do exactly the opposite. Forced to self-organize, they ended up eating each other. Exception missing; I don't know what that was about. Polar bears?Needless to say I love them all. So it's exciting to see a new kid on…
💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Wuthering Heights,Yorkshire,Film,Travel,Margot Robbie,Jacob Elordi,Emily Brontë 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThe four-mile track from the village of Haworth to Top Withens in West Yorkshire is well known; Many footprints crushed in the muddy ground by those searching for the view said to have inspired the setting of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. The landscape rolls in desolate waves of brown fern. A lone tree punctuates the scene. It's bleak and hauntingly beautiful.With the release of Emerald Fennell's new take on the gothic masterpiece starring Margot Robbie and…
🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Film,Games,Melania,YouTube 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TTwo very unusual films were released last weekend. You've almost certainly heard of it: Melania, the documentary centering on the biography of the First Lady of the United States, which was screened in thousands upon thousands of often completely empty movie theaters around the world by Amazon and Jeff Bezos in what is widely seen as a White House push. Melania's $7 million in the US was a little better than expected (and much higher than the film's staggering numbers elsewhere), but…
🚀 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Bad Bunny,Super Bowl LX,Music,Puerto Rico,Culture,Super Bowl,US sports,US news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A few days after Christmas 2022, Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican reggaetonero, appeared without warning on one of the most unlikely of stages: the roof of a Gulf Oil gas station in San Juan. To a massive crowd singing every word, he performed a surprise concert, along with friend and collaborator Arcángel, that was part hype-y music video shoot, part exultant post-tour homecoming, and part pointed critique. He ended the set with El Apagón (“The…
🚀 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: US television,Television,Jack Whitehall,Culture,Television & radio,TV comedy,Comedy ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WWe're a little past the worst of the often terrible trend, where studio-owned streamers desperately search through back catalogs to find over-watched movies that they can unnecessarily turn into barely-watched TV shows. Paramount did that with Fatal Attraction, American Gigolo, and Shiver, Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies; Warner has given us animated spin-offs for Gremlins and Aquaman, Universal has tried its hand at Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin and a mini-vehicle from Lionsgate's The Continental:…
🚀 Read this trending post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Known for its shocking moments of violence and groundbreaking visual approach, Taxi Driver is packed with unforgettable scenes that go beyond Bickle's famous scene in the mirror. In particular, there's another, shorter scene that's really the film's most significant moment of visual specificity; Displaying a distinctly European sensibility in what is ultimately a very American drama, as well as encapsulating the insular gloom that runs throughout.Reject with a differenceA third of the way through the film, at the conclusion of the first act, the film…
💥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,Jan van Eyck,Italy,Philadelphia,Belgium,Art and design,AI (artificial intelligence),Culture,Europe,US news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: An analysis of two paintings in museums in the United States and Italy by the 15th-century Flemish artist Jan van Eyck raised a profound question: What if van Eyck had not been?Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, the name given to the nearly identical, unsigned paintings that hang in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Royal Museums of Turin, represent two of a small number of surviving works by one of the…
🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: David Foster Wallace,Books,Fiction,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: II'm not what you would consider Infinite Jest's target demographic. The novel's reputation precedes it as a notorious book that few finish, and those who do tend to belong to a certain breed of college-age young men who talk to you, a sect of pedantic, misunderstood young men for whom, over the course of 30 years, "Infinite Jest" has become a rite of passage, much as "Little Women" or "Pride and Prejudice" might do for aspiring literary young women.Most…
🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Culture,Theatre ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TThe three adult sisters in Sheelagh Stevenson's Olivier Award-winning comedy have something in common. After their mother's death forces them to live together, they each struggle with the need of a child. But they are divided about what they need or who they need.What Teresa, the eldest, needs is respect for her devotion, especially as the primary caregiver in her mother's final days of dementia. Played by Victoria Brazier, tough and fragile, she is trapped in a story of martyrdom, a woman…
