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‘People are picking the dumbest fights’: the tortured history of America’s culture wars | Books

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💥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Books,Culture,Art,Art and design,History books ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Isaac Butler is limbering up for an event at Politics and Prose, an independent bookshop and venerable Washington institution, but still has time to explain his arm tattoos.They variously depict: a logo from his grandparents’ company in the 1960s; a satellite that his father worked on at Nasa; a “jaunty crab” for his wife, who finds crabs “hilarious”; an iris by Japan’s Utagawa Hiroshige for Butler’s daughter, Iris; a drawing of a scene from a production of The Seagull…

Bite my shiny metal ass! Best TV robots ever | television

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🔥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Culture,Television & radio,Science fiction TV,Doctor Who,Red Dwarf,South Park,Star Trek,Battlestar Galactica,The Mandalorian,Black Mirror,Westworld,TV comedy,Animation on TV,Comedy,Fantasy TV ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TIt's robots coming. And one of them happens to look a lot like Philomena Kanke in a wig. This week sees the arrival of Anne Druid, the BBC's new couple comedy. Diane Morgan plays an elderly care robot, imposed on skeptical pensioner Sue Johnston.Ann Droid is the latest in a long line of TV heads. We're tentatively celebrating the rise of machines with a countdown of the…

Oresteia Review – Simon Stone’s patchwork tragedy is a gripping and exasperating epic | stage

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Bridge theatre,Simon Stone,Aeschylus,Stage,Culture,David Morrissey 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: AAlthough writer-director Simon Stone has called his play "Oresteia," the credits state that this is a drama "after Aeschylus and others." Aeschylus is recognizable here, particularly in the first of the three most faithful and engaging parts. But the “others” are also important, with many shades of Greek tragedies appearing, from Antigone to Medea, and perhaps even Oedipus Rex.Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter, Iphigenia, his murder by his wife, Clytemnestra, and then her murder by their vengeful son,…

‘More real than anything you’ll see while scrolling’: The radical return of UK fanzines, 50 years after punk | music

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💥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Culture,Punk,Indie,Hip-hop,Magazines,Newspapers & magazines ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 'T"The most important part of the word 'fanzine' is 'fan,'" says John Marsh, a London-based zine maker. "Existing outside of mainstream media, free from the demands of release cycles and SEO, it is an obsession that turns into tangible things; self-published primarily for the maker's enjoyment, but with the potential to forge relationships with like-minded people."In the 1970s, punk music like Sniffin' Glue, Alternative Ulster, and Ripped & Torn allowed fans to share news and enthusiasm quickly and cheaply. Half…

Zombies, blood, and terrifying children – why we can’t stop playing horror games | games

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Games,Culture,Horror films,Resident Evil,Horror (TV) 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: HHorror is so hot right now. There's Obsession, Evil Dead Burn and Hokum in cinema, Widow's Bay, From and Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen on TV, and of course a variety of horror games including Resident Evil Requiem (pictured above) and Reanimal, soon to be joined by Silent Hill: Townfall, Silver Pines and Dreadmoor. We're also seeing a strange cross-pollination, where horror studio Blumhouse makes games, while the games themselves become horror movies and the entire…

Odyssey review – Nolan rises to the level of gods with a breathtaking epic of men, monsters, and moral transformation | film

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✨ Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,The Odyssey,Christopher Nolan,Homer,Matt Damon,Anne Hathaway,Tom Holland,Lupita Nyong'o,Elliot Page,Samantha Morton,Charlize Theron,Zendaya,Robert Pattinson,Books,Culture,Drama films 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: CChristopher Nolan reinvents the Homeric myth as a massive origin myth story of post-war disillusionment, an epic ordeal of pain witnessed by the dead and presided over by fickle gods who participate almost as equals with mortals. It speaks to the generational pain caused by PTSD. Many soldiers return home personally after any war quickly enough, but returning to their pre-war emotional or spiritual state may take years or decades and…

Hit Machine Review – Great musical drama hits a lot of wrong notes | stage

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✨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Soho theatre,Music,Pop and rock,Music industry,Business 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: HeyOn paper, Jonathan Karen's Whack Machine has all the makings of a major success. Featuring the London stage premiere of Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother) and Noah Galvin (Dear Evan Hansen), with direction from Danielle Bailey (Red Pitch) and music by Grammy Award-winning blues musician Ben Harper, the trio examines themes of masculinity, appropriation and buried familial trauma through the prism of the creative process.Set in the softly furnished home of music mogul Wes (Radnor), the…

Review by Karim Soliman/Shaun Shippy – Tenor and guitarist bluff in a wide-ranging, joyful recital | classical music

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🚀 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Classical music,Culture,Music 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: TTogether, tenor Karim Soliman and guitarist Sean Shippy bring a microcosm of world heritage to the concert stage: English, Japanese, Scottish, Lebanese and American. Their EP "Broken Branches" similarly offers a multitude of perspectives, both remembered and imagined. Its title is inspired by a poem written by Sinan Antun about being an Iraqi refugee in New York, composed by Layali Shaker in 2022 – a song that came at the end of a series that begins with “Le Beirut,” a powerful…

Brazilian World Cup legend Jairzinho takes a photo: Best photo of Michael Donald | Art and design

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✨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Culture,Football,Sport,Brazil,Rio de Janeiro,World Cup ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: II'm not a crazy football fan. What I love most about the game is its universal appeal – it's all about the ball crossing the goal line, and a goal is a goal whether it's two shirts in a park or the goal that decides the outcome of the World Cup. But when I realized in 2007 that only 58 people had scored in a World Cup final and only 34 of those guys were still alive,…

From the Jungle to the Star Trio and the Fires of Hell – my pick for new music coming to concerts this year | music

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🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Classical music,Proms 2026,Culture,Proms 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TThree heatwaves, but summer doesn't really start until the Proms start, and on Friday, Radio 3 and the BBC Symphony Orchestra lit up the blue touch sheet for eight weeks of music-making at the Royal Albert Hall and beyond. Like me, you may have looked through our Prom Guide to identify the concerts you want to hear most, but what always surprises us as the summer of music unfolds are the concerts that we couldn't have predicted would be great;…