💥 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Storyville: Portrait of a Confused Father10pm, BBC4A delightful but tragic introduction to the film by its Norwegian creator and narrator, Gunnar Halle Jensen, as he explains that the little boy in the home videos we watch - his son Jonathan - is now dead. Jensen continued to capture their relationship on camera for over 20 years, which he reflects candidly here, until Jonathan began to withdraw and distance himself from his father before he was murdered at the age of…
🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Photography,Yorgos Lanthimos,Culture,Art and design,Film 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: IIn the center of Athens, a completely new temple appeared. Walk around the tall white columns surrounding it and you will eventually find the entrance to its inner sanctuary. It may not be quite as old as the nearby Parthenon, but it contains a unique kind of treasure: self-portraits by director Yorgos Lanthimos.Taken over the past few years as he wandered his homeland, it offers a glimpse of Greece through the author's absurdist eye. We see a coffin leaning…
🚀 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Howard Jacobson,Fiction,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: HHoward Jacobson writes characters at their wits' end; These characters are usually men, and these men are usually Jews. In addition, and problematically for them and for everyone around them, their collective intelligence is capacious: it can be easily expanded to allow idiosyncrasies to turn into neuroses, and busyness into obsession. Jacobson's men do the opposite of suffering in silence (although they do that too); They frequently indulge in exhausting and exhausting arguments, arguing their point of view long after…
🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Fiction,Books,Culture,Anne Brontë,Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: 7 The Professor (written 1846, published 1857) by Charlotte BrontëThis was the first novel Charlotte Brontë completed. It was rejected by publishers nine times. Written in the voice of the male narrator, William Crimsworth, it presents a downbeat story of everyday middle-class struggle as the protagonist travels to Brussels to establish his career as a teacher. But the last publisher who saw it thought it was promising, despite being too short and not "striking and exciting" enough. Did the…
💥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Dance,Ballet,Stage,Theatre,Culture,Film ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WIt was a pleasure to find Jessica Wright and Morgann Runacre-Temple in full operation of their luxurious Chateau Garnier. The flamboyant duo from London, known as Jess and Morgs, bring their bold mix of choreography and live photography to an engaging new creation, Arena, with video design by Jakub Lech. It culminates in a bravura sequence in which Loup Marcault-Derouard leaves the stage and appears on a huge screen, racing around the halls and stairs of the majestic opera house. Arena gives…
💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Documentary films,Film,Swimming,Swimming,Culture,Fitness,Life and style,Sport 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TAt first glance, the title of this invigorating documentary about open water swimming seems to be a self-ironic remark regarding something competitors essentially have no control over: the possibility of becoming shark food. But, as practiced by Australian navigator Mark Sowerby, it has turned out to be a surprisingly profound and empowering principle about choosing to accept fears and anxieties, and not be carried away by one's inner weaknesses.Surbhi is the type often spotted: an investment banker seeking…
✨ Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Games,Culture,Shooting games,Science,Robots,Consciousness,Neuroscience,Technology ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: IIt sounds like the opening of a science fiction movie, but US scientists recently uploaded a copy of the brain of a live fly into a simulator. In San Francisco, biotechnology company Eon Systems has created a virtual insect that knows how to walk, fly, groom and feed in its virtual environment. Meanwhile, researchers in Australia taught a petri dish containing 200,000 human brain cells to play the popular 1990s shooter Doom. One experiment pushed the brain into a computer; The…
💥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Oscars 2026,Jessie Buckley,Ireland,Film,Culture,Micheál Martin,William Shakespeare,Europe ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Jesse Buckley's Oscar win has sparked great joy across Ireland and prompted an early start to St Patrick's Day celebrations.Politicians, artists and commentators expressed their joy and pride after they woke up on Monday to images of actor Kerry holding the Best Actress statue in Los Angeles.Irish President Katherine Connolly said: “The Jesse Buckley Award is an historic moment.” “This achievement is a well-deserved testament not only to Jessie’s outstanding performance in Hamnet, but also to her performances…
✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Pop and rock,Music,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWhen Les Claypool wrote his first song for Primus in 1984, he faced a crisis of self-confidence. “I felt too embarrassed to sing in my apartment,” he said in a video call. “But my roommate at the time was dating the preacher’s daughter, and she had the keys to the church across the street.” In the dead of night, the crazed guitarist and singer took his recording equipment to the empty church, set up on the stage, and sang for…
🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Oscars 2026,Film,Norway,Culture,World news,Sweden,Denmark,Stellan Skarsgård 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Sentinel Value's win at the Oscars on Sunday was hailed in Norway as the moment the country emerged from the film industry shadow cast by its Scandinavian neighbors Sweden and Denmark.Joachim Trier's film became the first Norwegian film ever to win an Oscar when it was named Best International Film at the ceremony in Los Angeles.Set around a family home in Oslo and telling the story of a film director estranged from his adult daughters, the film was…
