π₯ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Kim Gordon,Music,Sonic Youth,Culture,Pop and rock,Experimental music π **What Youβll Learn**: She's one of the icons of American alternative rock, a heroic example of someone who maintains the perfect balance when she has one foot in the mainstream and the other in the underground. After decades with Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon continues her impressive career as an individual β and she'll answer your questions.Born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, she returned to New York where she immersed herself in the non-wave scene in the…
β¨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Books,Literary festivals,Festivals,Culture,France,Amazon,Paris π **What Youβll Learn**: Amazon has withdrawn from the Paris Book Festival after a boycott by the French Booksellers Association sparked a dispute over the company's sponsorship of the event.The festival, scheduled to be held from April 17 to 19, will continue without support from the US retailer, after a mutual decision between the organizers and Amazon to end their partnership.The dispute began after French booksellers' association Syndicat de la Librairie FranΓ§aise (SLF) announced it would boycott the festival in protest over Amazon's participation.The SLF…
β¨ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Theatre,Children's theatre,Stage,Culture,Books,Refugees π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: II had never heard of The Boy at the Back of the Class before I was asked to edit it in 2023. My son had just turned one when Unjali Q Rauf's novel came into my life. While I could read every Julia Donaldson book in my sleep at the time, this He would have been a little advanced for his age in reading.Since then, of course, I have read the book and its impact has been extraordinary. The film's events…
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**What Youβll Learn**: AThe first big pop moment of 2026, it's all about Harry Styles' new album Kiss All the Time. Disco, at times feels appropriately hip. At last weekend's Brit Awards, Styles premiered the lead single, Aperture, alongside a troupe of dancers and an extravagant chorus, while the actual album launch party for "One Night Only" on Friday takes place in a 20,000-capacity arena.This is a "heartwarming" affair for Styles, who is taking to the courts this summer - and the…
π₯ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Sheffield Theatres,Women's football,Football,Sport π **What Youβll Learn**: TInterest in women's football continues to grow off the field in this play by Stefano Masini, adapted by Tim Firth for Sheffield Theatres. Like Amanda Whittington's The Invincibles and Sabrina Mahfouz and Holly McNish's Offside, Women's Football Club tells the incredible story of the game's development during the First World War. While the men fought away, the women took their places in the factory and on the football field - before being rudely kicked out of both after peace…
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**What Youβll Learn**: televisionIf you only watch one, do it...VladimirNetflixSummarize in a sentence Rachel Weisz is unfailingly gorgeous in this pitch-perfect adaptation of a 2022 black comedy novel that sees her college professor fall in love with Leo Woodall as a younger colleague.What our reviewer said βVladimir is that rare visitor to the screen β the right television for the right adults.β Lucy ManganRead the full reviewChoose from the restDTF St. LouisSky Atlantic and nowJason Bateman and David Harbor at DTF St. Louis. Photo: Sky…
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**What Youβll Learn**: Checkout: cinemaBride!Out nowMaggie Gyllenhaal directs this gothic romance set in Chicago and starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale. In James Whale's 1935 classic Bride of Frankenstein, on which it is loosely based, a lonely monster wants a mate and manipulates scientist Dr. Euphronius (Annette Bening) to create her.Peaky Blinders: The Immortal ManOut nowJust as The Rachel was for women who watched Friends in the 1990s, Peaky Blinders was for male audiences. Will the return of the Birmingham…
β¨ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Louis Theroux,Men,Men's health,Young people,Violence against women and girls,Mental health,Society,Gender,Documentary,Factual TV,Television,Television & radio,Culture,Netflix β
**What Youβll Learn**: On the pavement outside the Netflix office, I stand in the rain, confused. Was that interview a little off? Louis Theroux seemed not to like my questions, which were typical interview questions, related to him and his big glossy Netflix debut, Inside the Manosphere. He seemed, I donβt know, prickly? AΒ bitΒ testy? IβmΒ prone to rumination, soΒ perhaps I am overthinking. Because Louis Theroux is a good guy, right? HeΒ skewers the badΒ guys. And yet…
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**What Youβll Learn**: IIn all of her previous novels and short story collections, Irish writer Mary Costello has revealed the inner vastness hidden in even the quietest life. Her latest book, Beautiful Loan, goes even further, with a heartfelt poetic exploration of the multitudes we contain and what it means to be human.From the beginning, in the introduction to the novel, Anna tells us that she is determined to sacrifice herself and her life. But we do not expect any ordinary narrative, concerned only with…
π₯ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Television & radio,Culture,TV comedy π **What Youβll Learn**: HThere's something funny. When talented actors in comedy turn βstraight,β and take on dramatic roles without any laughs, the world falls at its feet to offer them flowers. You might not realize it by looking at every acting award ever handed out, but comedy is a lot harder than drama. They both share techniques and aim for truth. But in comedy, rhythm and originality are crucial, and the spotlight is unforgiving. (Fart noise.)From Robin Williams to Jim Carrey,…
