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More Lord of the Flies than Love Island, less Robinson Crusoe than Castaway 2007, the first original Thai series made by Netflix comes with enough suspense, supernatural twists and cliffhangers to keep viewers rooting for characters who are, mostly, just tiresome teenagers. That they turn out to be much more engaging human beings is testament to the screenwriters on the The Stranded, a rite-of-passage adventure yarn about the pupils of a prestigious island school. Just as they are about to… from South China Morning Post https://ift.tt/35McZvB

In this regular feature series on the best of Hong Kong martial arts cinema, we examine the legacy of classic films, re-evaluate the career of its greatest stars, and revisit some of the lesser-known aspects of the beloved genre. We begin this week with a never-before-published interview with Jackie Chan during the peak of his career.Jackie Chan worked as a stuntman during the early 1970s, notably on the Bruce Lee film Fist of Fury in 1972, before working his way up to stunt coordinator and… from South China Morning Post https://ift.tt/2P0RkZJ

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Adam Gopniks remembers the writer Clive James, who died this week, at the age of eighty. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/33FUqb7

It’s musicals week, and the five remaining couples will be tackling everything from Oliver! to Hairspray. Jazz hands at the ready! 6.59pm GMT You’d think it would be quite tough to make a prime time pop music quiz on BBC truly terrible, but this one really nails it. 6.51pm GMT This week’s Strictly Come Bingo – have a swig of warm interval wine (please place your order at the bar now) for any occurrence of the following: Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2qOy9uh

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Events to mark the centenary of the birth of Merce Cunningham, one of the 20th century’s greatest choreographers, are being held all around the world. from https://ift.tt/33x9RC3

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Finborough, London A Welsh teenager is hailed as the second coming in this fascinating revival of Emlyn Williams’ long-forgotten play This enterprising theatre struck gold in 2011 with its revival of Emlyn Williams’s Accolade . They now turn to an earlier Williams work, unseen since its London premiere in 1945, that deals with an outbreak of religious fervour in a Welsh mountain village just after the Crimean war. It’s a weird piece, chiefly fascinating today for what it reveals about Williams himself. He originally played the pivotal figure of Ambrose Ellis, a renegade Welshman who owns a circus in Birmingham and is drawn back to his birthplace by rumours of magic and music in the air. He discovers that a 13-year-old boy is believed to have miraculous powers, which include curing a cholera epidemic, and is thought to be the new Christ. Having arrived as an exploitative businessman, Ellis turns into a dedicated evangelist. Although Williams never explains the credulity of the village

Royal Opera House, London Francesca Hayward sparkles in this twee revival, a luminous presence in an inconsequential story about a lifesize doll There are ballets of magical otherworldliness, of stirring drama, technical fireworks or formal daring. And then there’s Coppélia. Originally created in 1870 – this production by Royal Ballet founder Ninette de Valois dates from 1954 – Coppélia is a ballet with the thinnest of plots. Against a picturesque Germanic backdrop, Swanilda’s caddish fiance Franz will flirt with anything, even the mysteriously placid girl sitting in Dr Coppélius’s window … who turns out to be a lifesize doll. What larks! Spread over three acts, there’s very little to work with. But if anyone could make this twee set-up worth watching it’s Francesca Hayward, a natural actor with luminous presence on stage. As Swanilda, she is spiritedly teenage, jumping down steps, huffing at Alexander Campbell’s Franz and his wandering eye, and conning Coppélius with her own doll-li

The K-pop industry is known to have strict rules for its stars – including dating bans, spartan training regimens and diets, and sometimes slave-like and unfair contracts. But, say experts, the industry has additional requirements for its female artists – unspoken rules that are reflective of South Korea’s patriarchal society.This increased pressure faced by female K-pop stars was again highlighted this week when South Korean singer and actress Goo Hara was found dead at her home in Seoul.Goo’s… from South China Morning Post https://ift.tt/2OAp2GI

Sam Spero and Patrick Goodney write a humorous argument for one wedding guest’s receipt of a plus-one. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/2DwwufG

Your wedding day should be one of the happiest days of your life, yet it can also be one of the most stressful. From the months of planning, to interfering relatives, to the meticulously orchestrated celebrations, the day itself is a ticking time bomb of potentially expensive disasters.Motivations for getting married can also vary wildly, from family pressure to financial stability to immigration status, but should always be grounded in love and mutual respect. All of this makes marriage, and… from South China Morning Post https://ift.tt/2OXUiOF

FRANCE 24 this week explores the subject of exceptionally high levels of domestic violence in France, discovers how France truly is a civil servant's paradise, learns how e-scooters are provoking ire from Paris metro workers ahead of the December 5 strike and listens to former Cambridge Analytica employee Brittany Kaiser claim democracy is under threat. from https://ift.tt/2qYwaDv

A piece of wood worshipped as part of the manger in which Jesus was born has been returned to the Holy Land. The relic — an early Christmas present from the Vatican — will go on display at a church in Bethlehem. from Deutsche Welle: DW.com - Culture & Lifestyle https://ift.tt/2OvIAf5

Keaton Patti writes a satirical oral history of a beloved comedy movie from 1999, with memories from the cast and crew. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/37L5fvA

They're key actors in the world of fashion – but rarely seen or heard. It’s the job of press officers to come up with innovative communications strategies to get the media to relay their brand's messaging. And then there's the small matter of getting customers to believe the brand is worth those hefty price tags. It’s complicated work that requires diplomacy, a way with words and audacity. FRANCE 24 finds out more. from https://ift.tt/34yHQeH

Hungary has pulled out of the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest that will take place in Rotterdam. No reason was given, but many people are speculated that the decision is related to the government's homophobic stance. from Deutsche Welle: DW.com - Culture & Lifestyle https://ift.tt/2Dt4pG4

Margaret Atwood writes about the influence that the “Little Lulu” comics had on her as a young writer and storyteller. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/2XZNX9K

Carrie Battan writes about Pardison Fontaine, a rapper from New York balancing material released under his own name with the ghostwriting he does for artists such as Cardi B and Kanye West. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/2qNbqyK

The well-drilled ensemble, whose trebles hail from all over the world and entertain audiences on five continents, comes to Carnegie Hall for its annual holiday concert. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/2XXKrMQ

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After recognising a sinister Latin inscription on the sculpture in Jesus College, Cambridge, I began a campaign to return it I remember seeing the gold plaque in Latin on the stand of the okukor – a bronze sculpture of a cockerel – in the dining hall when I started at Jesus College, Cambridge, in 2013. I was a classics student at the time, and had secured a place on the four-year classics degree that enabled students from more diverse backgrounds to learn Latin and Greek; I was one of very few black classicists at Cambridge. As my language skills developed, I noticed the Latin on the sculpture’s plaque used the verb rapere (“to seize”), instead of dare (“to give”) – suggesting it did not arrive at the college in a positive way. As I began to investigate, I learned of its bloody history and, as somebody of Jamaican descent, my interest in returning the okukor to its rightful home was immediately piqued. Related: Bronze cockerel to be returned to Nigeria by Cambridge college Cont

Managers of PJ Harvey, Mumford & Sons and others warn deal would hand firm monopoly in UK ticket resale The UK competition watchdog should intervene in the $4bn (£3.1bn) takeover of ticket resale website StubHub by its controversial rival Viagogo , according to the managers of artists including PJ Harvey, Little Mix and Mumford & Sons. In a letter to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), music industry group FanFair Alliance – which includes the managers of a host of top-selling acts – warned the deal would hand Viagogo a monopoly in UK ticket resale, with “significant and damaging implications” for the live music industry. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2R0IVrP

(XL Recordings) Back after 10 years, Peñate’s tuneful new songs are a literate, spiritual exploration of the soul, but it’s undoubtedly a bit beige Jack Peñate’s back, and this time it’s spiritual. Part of his decade away from music was spent – consults notes – indulging in mind-expanding ritual, looking to mysticism and mythology for answers, and reading Hesse, Rilke and Huxley. The suspicion that he’s gone full ayahuasca holiday is further heightened by the news that the album’s closer, Swept to the Sky, was written “because there was a sound that reminded me of a feeling I had being in the jungle while in Peru”. Shall we consult the lyrics to see what feeling that might have been? “Then a mist from the lovers of sin / Slowly crept to my skull through my skin / And my body was carried up high / And I felt myself swept to the sky.” No more questions, your honour. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/34y3xvv

The illustrated city: artist Jack Hurley explains why his satirical railway posters are really a celebration of the glorious mediocrity of Britain’s cities and towns So, my name’s Jack Hurley, I’m 40 and I guess I’m an illustrator. I say “guess” because this all came about through expedience rather than design after I rather rashly threw in the towel on my career as a mental health worker without much of a plan as to what I was going to do next. The last five years have been a seat-of-the-pants crash course in learning on the fly, screaming at Adobe Illustrator and generally blagging my way through a scene I came to relatively late in life. I ended up making these posters while I was doing some freelance T-shirt design work and I got a request to do one for Cleethorpes with “The Last Resort” as the punchline. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2R2ITja

Greta Thunberg’s speeches and surprise hit The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse have together defined 2019, say booksellers With the UK in the throes of a divisive election campaign and scientists warning that we are in a “planetary emergency” , Waterstones has chosen two titles that “call for a better and kinder world” as its books of the year. After nominations from staff, a panel at the country’s largest book chain picked Charlie Mackesy’s illustrated call for love, friendship and kindness, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, as book of the year, and Greta Thunberg, author of No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference, as author of the year. Both choices, said bookseller Kate McHale, are “testament to the extraordinary power of books to move and shape us”. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2L48bcT

PC, PS4; Ys Net/Deep Silver Part Studio Ghibli, part Karate Kid, this long-awaited continuation of the tale may sometimes seem clunky and last-gen, but it is also thoroughly charming On its release 15 years ago, Shenmue II was acclaimed as a masterpiece and cemented creator Yu Suzuki’s reputation as one of the games industry’s great creators. It was also a massive commercial flop, and a proposed third title was postponed indefinitely. Over the past decade, however, the series has earned near-mythical status and, after a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2015 – the largest the platform had had for a game – Shenmue III is finally here. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2R3Br7l

Be afraid … Apple TV+ is serving up creepy dolls, creepier nannys and all sorts of supernatural shenanigans thanks to M Night Shyamalan Apple TV+ ’s new show Servant centres on Dorothy and Sean, a wealthy couple with exhaustingly successful lives: she is a local newscaster with family money, he is a chef to the rich and famous. They dwell in a sumptuous if slightly gothic Manhattan townhouse with their new baby whom they have named, because we live in a morally derelict age with no sense of decorum or shame any more, Jericho. OR DO THEY? For this is a supernatural thriller, created by Tony Basgallop and executive produced by M Night Shyamalan , so nothing can be straightforward. Or quick. Or unbeautifully framed. But we’ll get to that. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2XZjGYh

With Lucy in the Sky out next week, we rate the actor’s greatest roles from V for Vendetta to Annihilation Terrence Malick films are never entirely without value, but this comes pretty close: a tiresomely self-indulgent and male-gazey homage to LA life, tricked out with Malick’s late-phase tics (whispery voiceovers, tremulous closeups, whirling cameras) that only restate the obtuseness of it all. From the poster and publicity material, you would think that Portman plays a key part here, but no: she’s one of the gallery of women with whom a writer, Christian Bale, attempts to find meaning in his life. Portman does quite a bit of moody frisking, from art gallery to hotel room to beach, but there’s not much to it. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2L3RDBX

Craig grills an all-star lineup of suspects when a wealthy novelist is found dead in Rian Johnson’s sharp, country-house murder mystery R ian Johnson unsheathes an entertainingly nasty, if insubstantial detective mystery with his new film, Knives Out. Back in 2005, his debut movie Brick (a high-school thriller) paid tribute to the hardboiled noir genre. Now he does the same thing for cosy crime, although there is nothing that cosy about it. Knives Out has a country house full of frowning suspects, deadpan servants and smirking ne’er-do-wells and an amusing performance from Daniel Craig as Benoît Blanc, the brilliant amateur sleuth from Louisiana who annoys the hell out of one and all by smiling enigmatically, occasionally plinking a jarring high note on the piano during the drawing-room interrogation and pronouncing in his southern burr: “Ah suh-spect far-wuhl play!” Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2L0NKO4

Thanks to the popularity of open-world video games – and Stranger Things – a new generation has rediscovered the communal pleasures of the 80s role-playing phenomenon Not long ago, my sons, like many other preteens, were obsessed with Fortnite . It was all they played, all they talked about, all they spent their pocket money on. But one rainy afternoon this summer, my youngest took out the D&D starter kit we’d bought him for Christmas and began to study it. Some friends came round and they played for hours. Since then, they haven’t really stopped. This is not an isolated incident. Originally released in 1974, Dungeons & Dragons is having what we now call “a moment”. The company behind the game, Wizards of the Coast, estimates that there are currently 40 million players worldwide, with new starters up 25% year on year, as its popularity grows and rules are translated into new languages. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/35LmgUM

Over tea and tequila, the actor and the rock star discuss making Motherless Brooklyn, the dark forces behind Trump – and why Yorke was too messed up to score Fight Club In Edward Norton’s new film, Motherless Brooklyn, a keening ballad blows in and out, affecting the narrative and painting the prevailing mood with a deep shade of blue. It’s unmistakably the work of Radiohead’s frontman, Thom Yorke. Some film songs (Stayin’ Alive, The Harder They Come ) sit so snugly with the tale that one can barely see the join. Others (Mrs Robinson, Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head ) drop like gaudy visitors from another world. It’s an inexact science, a curious alchemy. Norton and Yorke are still figuring it out. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2Oxt3vw

Ustinov Studio, Bath Hansol Jung’s play brings the distracting, confusing noise of the internet to a funny and sensitive story of lonely hearts in Seoul The internet is so fully realised in this production that even a dialling tone has personality (watch it angrily slope off the stage). As two lonely folks navigate life in modern-day Seoul, and look for love on the internet, a small chorus of actors chirp, sing and dance around them. How to cut through the noise and hold on to what is real? Should we focus on what’s in front of us, or a family far away? All these questions flit restlessly through Hansol Jung’s thoughtful and funny play, brought to life with flair by Michael Boyd. Three composers are credited in this production, which gives you some idea of just how noisy it is. Loneliness can be awfully loud. Guk Minsung (London Kim) is the wild goose of the title, a nickname given to South Korean fathers who migrate only rarely to their distant family (Guk’s live in America). When

Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon A resplendent cast sing the praises of self-expression in Mark Ravenhill’s adaptation of the feelgood football novel The boy who defies tribal expectations is becoming a recurrent theme in the British musical. First came Billy Elliot , then Everybody’s Talking About Jamie , and now the RSC gives us a show based on David Walliams’ 2008 best seller , adapted by Mark Ravenhill, with music and lyrics by Robbie Williams, Guy Chambers and Chris Heath. The result is a cheerful, tuneful celebration of the desire to be different that could easily replicate the popularity of its predecessors. Walliams-watchers will hardly need to be reminded of the story. It focuses on the 12-year-old Dennis, who is star striker in the school football team but whose life changes when he covertly buys a copy of Vogue. His purchase is prompted by the cover shot of a woman who reminds him of his mum, who has left home. Dennis’s fascination with fashion starts a fri

The crazy costumes, the incontinence pants, the dead squirrel on his head … Elton told all in this fawn-fest on the Côte d’Azur. But who paid for Graham Norton’s open-top Rolls-Royce? The doves weren’t feeling it that night. Why should they have been? See it from their perspective. You and your mates have been trapped inside five pianos on stage at the Hollywood Bowl, waiting for your cue. And what was that cue? As soon as the flamboyant Englishman descends a staircase on to the stage, the piano lids will fly open, each bearing one of the letters of the name ELTON, hopefully in the right order. Your task will be to fly into the California night to a soundtrack of oohs and aahs before laughing boy bangs out Elderberry Wine. It didn’t happen. As Elton John made his entrance into US society in 1973, in a white outfit making him look like the victim of a tarring and feathering, the piano lids flew up, but the birds didn’t. “The doves had fallen asleep,” he recalled. Like so many matters

Injuries caused by the physical toll of the Madame X tour force singer to cancel shows in Boston Madonna has cancelled three tour dates in Boston on doctor’s orders, due to “overwhelming pain”. She wrote on Instagram: “Please forgive this unexpected turn of events. Doing my show every night brings me so much joy and to cancel is a kind of punishment for me but the pain I’m in right now is overwhelming and I must rest and follow doctors’ orders so I can come back stronger and better and continue the Madame X journey with all of you.” Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2OqlzdA

The son of the Chicago-based Grammy-winning musician says he does not believe the family were deliberately targeted Numerous gunshots have been fired at the Chicago home of Jeff Tweedy, frontman of the Grammy-winning indie rock band Wilco . His wife, Susan Miller Tweedy, detailed the incident in a Facebook post. She reported hearing: “Seven to 10 shots fired at what sounded like right at our house … A bullet went through the storm door to our balcony and lodged in the wooden door.” She added that Jeff found seven bullet casings outside their home. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2QUpTDD

Michele Moses on Alison Roman’s recent cookbook, “Nothing Fancy,” and its advocacy of making both food and entertaining accessible and stress-free. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/2Dro9tm

Pat Achilles’s Daily Cartoon depicts turkeys confronting the idea of a quid pro quo on Thanksgiving. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/34v86Xr

There's not much to see yet, but it's clear that Cologne will be home to a new museum dedicated to migration. The government will provide funding to see the "House of Immigration Society" built in an old industrial hall. from Deutsche Welle: DW.com - Culture & Lifestyle https://ift.tt/2L2KGRv

From cuddly pugs to hunting dogs and three-headed canines guarding the gates of hell, to the storied pets of David Bowie, Queen Elizabeth II and Catherine the Great, "Loyal Friends" celebrates our puppy obsession. from Deutsche Welle: DW.com - Culture & Lifestyle https://ift.tt/2XRVzej

Holiday albums do not have to be cheesy and they’ve come a long way since your grandparents bought a copy of Bing Crosby’s White Christmas in 1942. Here’s a collection of new holiday albums that will brighten up your Christmas break next month.1. Ne-Yo – Another Kind of Christmas(Motown/Compound Entertainment)When it comes to holiday albums, Ne-Yo’s got two great things going for him: a beautiful voice, plus a merry and bright charisma that makes him a shoo-in for anybody’s holiday TV special… from South China Morning Post https://ift.tt/35RwnHJ

Exclusive: Portrait of a Man (Léal Souvenir) will be among star items in Ghent exhibition The National Gallery in London is to make an exceptional loan of a painting by Jan van Eyck to a one-off exhibition celebrating the 15th-century Flemish master. Portrait of a Man (Léal Souvenir), one of the earliest dated works by the painter, will be among the star exhibits in Van Eyck – an Optical Revolution, which will open at the Museum of Fine Arts (MSK) in Ghent, Belgium, in February. It will be the largest ever showing of Van Eyck’s works and probably the last major exhibition of its kind, curators said. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/37DEmcS

Three people, at least two of them women, were buried in the city of Luxor some 3,500 years ago. A team of French archeologists has discovered their coffins in the necropolis of al-Asasif, complete with original paint. from Deutsche Welle: DW.com - Culture & Lifestyle https://ift.tt/2q3aO7K

The Pussycat Dolls are back, and their main singer is determined to enjoy it. She discusses body image, online abuse, success and Simon Cowell “It takes a lot for Nicole Scherzinger to burn out,” says Nicole Scherzinger, X Factor judge, Broadway singer, Pussycat Doll, and celebrity face of yoghurt; and I believe her. “In the past I’ve said you can never work too much.” We are at the Rosewood hotel in Holborn, London, picking up where we left off a few days ago, when our interview had ended after half an hour due to a meeting being brought forward. Scherzinger had only just returned to London from presenting at the MTV Europe music awards in Spain the previous night. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/35KZFY7

Artist of unfulfilled grand ambitions to light up London night with Ancient of Days William Blake always dreamed of making vast works for churches and palaces but to his bitter disappointment he never achieved it. More than two centuries after his death Tate has announced it is going some way to making up for that by projecting his final work on to the giant dome of St Paul’s Cathedral. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2XXjhG6

Promising a ‘window into modern family life’, this new series follows a group of expectant parents – all of whom are coping suspiciously well I have only one consistent criterion for judging shows about childbirth and newborns and that is: are they honest? Specifically, are they more honest than the supposedly revolutionary Channel 4 series, One Born Every Minute ? Which, of course, was nothing of the sort. The editing was so selective that vaginas across the country should have sued for misrepresentation. Another way of formulating the question would be: does this perpetuate or challenge the myth that childbirth is generally OK? Intense, sure, and occasionally dramatic, but essentially OK. How close does it come to the responsible reporting ideal, which would be to have a news ticker running along the bottom of the screen during every scene of a swaddled newborn with a handknitted cap on its head, saying things like: “We had to discard 85% of footage after things took a turn too hel

Analysis by French academics finds scant evidence to support accepted view that the classic plays were written by a better educated man For at least a century, scholars have argued that the supposed lack of education of Molière, the French playwright responsible for seminal masterpieces including Tartuffe and Le Misanthrope, means he could not have written them. Now academics say they have resolved the controversy once and for all, using an algorithm to find that Molière – born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622– was the author of all his plays. Molière’s father was one of the appointed furnishers of the royal household , but his son rejected this career for a life on the stage, touring, acting and writing the searing comic plays that would change the face of French theatre. In 1919, French writer Pierre Louÿs claimed that the poet Pierre Corneille had ghostwritten Molière’s most famous works. Since then, questions about Molière’s level of education, his busy schedule and the rarity of s

Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Adams teach us a lot but applying their lessons to the Trump era seems a thankless task History is misused. Perhaps worse, history is too often ignored. To address both problems, Joseph Ellis hopes to restore dialogue in national life, using the Founders as touchstones rather than infallible guides. Related: 'I guess that's revealing': David Rubenstein on Trump and the weight of history Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2OrfZYj

Karen Gillan is writer, director and star of this compelling tale of a hedonistic young woman dealing with the death of a friend The actor Karen Gillan makes her writer-director debut with a downbeat, interesting-but-flawed drama set in her hometown of Inverness, and shot on a tiny budget – the kind of money they probably spent on almond milk lattes making the Avengers blockbusters in which she played cyborg Nebula. Her character here is familiar from countless millennial indie movies: a funny, smart twentysomething who can’t pull her life together, boozing too much, sleeping with the wrong guys, waking up still wearing her mascara. But a gravitational downwards pull tugs at the film, though I wasn’t convinced it has the emotional depth for the dark places Gillan wants to take it. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2Dnj9Gb

In 1994, the award-winning Scottish photographer Margaret Mitchell made Family – a set of striking images of her sister’s children at home in Stirling. Two decades later, after her sister’s death, Mitchell returned to photograph their own children to make a sequel, In This Place Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/34riCil

[Sponsored article]  “TIME WILL TELL” is a passionate cross media exhibition of anothermountainman x Stanley Wong’s vast body of creation encompassing design, advertisement, photography, art, movie and writing. It is also a visual testament to Wong’s inexhaustible creativity and positive attitude towards life, whether it be commercial, personal or commissioned work. In the artist’s own words, the exhibition is “a presentation on process, building and preserving, and precipitating. It is not… from South China Morning Post https://ift.tt/37MtU2G

‘He came out on to the balcony, picked a half-smoked cigarette out of a plant pot, lit it, and then it was click, click, click’ I was a student working part-time in a video shop and I took Twin Peaks home to watch. It was a revelation. I became completely hooked, and watched as much of David Lynch’s work as I could. I was studying photography and fell into portrait work almost by accident. I saw the comedian Bill Hicks on TV and he blew me away like Twin Peaks had. I spotted he was performing in Manchester and I knew I had to go – I was like an autograph hunter but using my camera instead of a pen. I stood backstage and introduced myself and asked if I could photograph him. He said yes, and I spent 45 minutes with him in his dressing room. Coming away with something I’d created gave me a massive buzz. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2rzK4vK

Controversial shock-rocker Marilyn Manson will perform his first concert in Hong Kong on March 18 next year.Tickets to the show at AsiaWorld-Expo are priced at HK$898 and go on sale on December 13.More to follow from South China Morning Post https://ift.tt/34sSQui

Drunk in China: Baijiu and the World’s Oldest Drinking Cultureby Derek SandhausUniversity of Nebraska Press4/5 starsB aijiu is one of the biggest challenges Chinese culture offers to foreigners, who often describe it as “gut-rot”, “engine-cleaner” or in even less positive terms. Yet the distilled grain alcohol belongs to a drinking culture that goes back thousands of years.The boom times that followed the opening of China’s economy produced some of the world’s largest liquor companies. The… from South China Morning Post https://ift.tt/2qR5fJR

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Carmarthen band win award previously won by Gwenno and Gruff Rhys for album described by Huw Stephens as ‘personal, beautiful music’ Welsh-language female post-punk trio Adwaith have won the 2019 Welsh Music prize for their album Melyn. Announcing their win, BBC Radio 1’s Huw Stephens said the album was “a very exciting and deserved winner from an exceptional shortlist. Adwaith have made a real impact with their personal, beautiful music that captures what it’s like to be young, female, frustrated and bewildered at the world we live in.” Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/33mB1M9

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Polymath also had career in medicine and was member of Beyond the Fringe comedy team Jonathan Miller, the writer, theatre and opera director, and member of the Beyond the Fringe comedy team, has died at the age of 85. The polymath also had a career in medicine, broadcasting, and even took sculpture later in life. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2rywzwE

Why would a statue in his tomb portray him with breasts? And why does the golden pharaoh’s face look so feminine? As crowds flock to the British show, we investigate a story to rival the infamous curse He may not have the whip, the hat, the gun and the dusty old leather jacket, but Nicholas Reeves has a theory that is straight out of the Indiana Jones movies. Reeves, a British Egyptologist, has written a string of highly respected books, most notably The Complete Tutankhamun, and his idea certainly harks back to the golden age of treasure hunting. It is far-fetched, undoubtedly, but then that’s how Indy’s greatest adventures always started. As the crowds flock to Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh – a recent arrival in Britain after breaking attendance records in France – Reeves believes they are being sold a dummy: that these stupendous objects were not made for the Egyptian boy king and his journey into the afterlife at all. So who were they for? “I reckon,” says Reeves

Former Nashville Mayor Megan Barry is used to making headlines. In March 2018, she resigned after having an affair with her former head of security and entering a conditional plea to a felony charge of theft of property. None of it compared to losing her son. from Culture - ELLE https://ift.tt/2smBotf

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, a life-enhancing 60s sensation, is about to enrapture a new generation of filmgoers Voguish director Damien Chazelle’s pick for “the greatest movie ever made” isn’t his masterwork La La Land, or even Citizen Kane. It’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Chazelle claims to have watched this New Wave classic more than 200 times, and regards his own not-quite-Oscar-winning 2016 musical as a crypto-remake of Jacques Demy ’s entirely sung-through phenomenon. It wasn’t love at first sight. Initially, Demy’s film, with its strange operatic style, “threw me for a loop,” says Chazelle. On its debut in 1964, it provoked a similarly perplexed response. Yet it went on to win the Palme d’Or and five Oscar nominations; it pulled in more than a million filmgoers in France alone, and became an enduring obsession for those, like Chazelle, who have fallen under its spell. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/37GLogV

Danielle Kraese writes up a humorous list of potential cures she attempted to solve her acne, and the unexpected results they led to. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/33pgzdt

She’s spent half a century fighting male ‘arrogance’ in the art world. Now 80, the spray gun-wielding American’s latest work is a howl of rage at what we’re doing to the planet Eighty this year, Judy Chicago ’s hair is white and violet, and she’s wearing lipstick so plum-dark it registers as black. It’s a strident image that suggests she’s a fighter, which she is: funny and forthright, she has dedicated a career to courageous exploration of difficult subjects, from catastrophic injury to mental illness. Some things, though, can’t be fought: extreme weather has left her grounded in New Mexico, thousands of miles from Gateshead where a retrospective of half a century of her work opened earlier this month. I end up talking to her on a video call. This intervention of natural forces is grimly apposite. Chicago’s show at the Baltic focuses on extinction narratives and human responsibilities to the planet. She has spent the past three years contemplating mortality. The series The End: A Me

Balvin was a minor Colombian artist who became the fifth most streamed on the planet without using English, showing how embracing national pride can be a force for cultural good The decade in music: read all the essays in the series If I had to make a personal playlist for the past decade, J Balvin ’s 2012’s early reggaeton track Tranquila would make the cut because of the nostalgia it conjures up around sunshine, good food and dancing with cute Colombian boys. That year, I was living my best life in Bogotá, and Tranquila blasted out of nightclubs, bodegas and Blackberrys up and down the country. Its rather corny music video was shot in Cartagena, far away from the touristy colonial city, and presented a skinny Balvin covered in tattoos – but any bad-boy image that he might have had was undercut by his bouncy dance moves, fresh face and cheeky smile. At the time, few could have predicted that Balvin would ensure Colombia claimed its space not just in the world of reggaeton, which

Jia Tolentino interviews so-called mommy bloggers about the cheerfully harried, Amazon Prime-referencing memes that decorate T-shirts, mugs, and other merchandise. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/2OJIL5u

Party leader says that cuts-hit service gave him ‘a fantastic start in life and I want that for everybody’ Jeremy Corbyn has said that he can guarantee he will protect public libraries if Labour gets into power. Speaking at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London on Sunday, the Labour leader attacked the Conservatives’ policy on libraries, saying that the party knows “the price of everything and the value of nothing”. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/33ieTT2

Orange Tree, Richmond upon Thames This production of George Bernard Shaw’s remarkable play about a poet and a priest in love with the same woman induces giddy delight Paul Miller is almost single-handedly keeping the Shavian flame alive. This is his fourth production of one of the plays in five years and it induces in the audience a giddy delight that reminds me of the comment by Jorge Luis Borges that “the work of Shaw “leaves one with a flavour of liberation”. That liberation takes many forms in this remarkable play, first performed in 1895. For a start, we see the eponymous heroine exposing the word-drunk absurdity of the two men competing for her love: her Christian socialist husband, Rev Morell, and the hyperbolic teenage poet, Marchbanks. When Claire Lams’s spritely, mischievous Candida mockingly asks them “pray, my lords and masters, what have you to offer for my choice?” we could be watching a comedic version of Ibsen. But Miller has also grasped that there is something Dion

German idioms: What people mean when they make nails with heads, or shout about showing you where the hammer hangs. Don't expect a visit to their workshop! from Deutsche Welle: DW.com - Culture & Lifestyle https://ift.tt/35FfUpW

Taiwanese-Canadian model and actor collapsed on the set of a reality TV show while filming in China Taiwanese-Canadian actor and model Godfrey Gao, the first Asian person to be the face of Louis Vuitton , died while filming a TV show in China on Wednesday. The 35-year-old Gao collapsed in the eastern city of Ningbo while on the set of Chase Me, a competitive sports challenge show on China’s Zhejiang Television. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2qQI6Hl

250 years after his birth, the jazz festival in the composer's hometown shows how his spirit lives on in improvisation. Jazz in the spirit of Beethoven and a competition are highlights of the month-long festival in May. from Deutsche Welle: DW.com - Culture & Lifestyle https://ift.tt/2XO2nJS

Detectives believe the burnt-out car found on Monday was connected to the crime. However, they have no hot leads yet on who stole "priceless" jewelry from Dresden's Green Vault, one of Europe's oldest collections. from Deutsche Welle: DW.com - Culture & Lifestyle https://ift.tt/35I1dlX

Two families have to raise tens of thousands for medical treatments for their kids. But you can’t escape the growing suspicion of exploitation that hangs over the whole bad show What an extremely odd experience watching Save My Child was. It was the tale of two families’ attempts to raise money for operations and therapies abroad for their children that the NHS does not fund. Teenager Mia has scoliosis and wears a painful, restrictive back brace 23 hours a day. She has a year to wait before she qualifies for the operation to realign and fuse her spine that is the standard NHS treatment for her condition. She and her mother Jo want her to have a new procedure (known as VBT) sooner, in Turkey. It will cost £32,000 and, having reined in the family spending long ago, they now set up a JustGiving page and embark on a fundraising programme full of coffee mornings, sponsored runs and other activities to amass the rest of the sum before Mia’s curvature becomes too pronounced for this operati

Plays combine plots from blockbuster franchise and feature Ichikawa Ebizo XI, foremost star of the traditional acting form The Star Wars franchise is about to breach the artistic final frontier with a one-off performance of a kabuki adaptation starring one of Japan’s most revered stage actors. The classical Japanese theatre, which combines highly stylised movement and unusual vocalisation, will swap samurai swords for lightsabers and replace feudal warriors with the forces of light and darkness. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2OTFz7A

In a new book, guided by the art history expert Catherine McCormack, 40 ceilings from around the globe are celebrated for their aesthetic power and examined for what they mean to those who created them. From the Senso-ji temple in Japan to the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas, The Art of Looking Up offers up an alternative look at art where we might not expect it Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/34vlCdS

It’s 20 years since Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm went solo, but, she says, it has taken until 2019 – ironically, the year of the band’s reunion tour – for her to really find herself It’s often said that meeting a Spice Girl feels a lot like encountering a cartoon character. You can see it with unfiltered Mel B, poised Victoria and Emma, still resolutely family-friendly at 43. Geri’s modern lady-of-the-manor act is the antithesis of her old outrageousness, yet she is still swimming in camp. But with Mel C – or Melanie C as she styles herself these days – that’s not the case. Even if she was your favourite Spice Girl, and you have never met one before, and she turns up to your interview in a closed Kings Cross bar wearing a hoodie and trackies – just as she would have done when Melanie Chisholm became Sporty Spice 25 years ago – it’s still only the little things that nod to the fact she was in one of the biggest girl groups of all time. She speaks quietly, often in an awed whisper, and

East London institution will open in the summer with more exhibition space The Geffrye museum will rename itself as the Museum of the Home when it reopens after an £18m redevelopment, which will double its public space. The popular museum of historic interiors, which occupies Grade I-listed 18th-century almshouses in east London, closed to the public in January 2018 to allow major building work. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/33okMxO

The award, previously won by Adele and Sam Smith, is voted for by music industry figures predicting 2020’s biggest new stars Nominations for the Brits rising star award, formerly known as the critics’ choice award and given to artists the music industry predicts will find success the following year, have been announced for 2020. All three are solo female artists – Celeste, Beabadoobee and Joy Crookes – and will hope to replicate the success of past winners, who include Adele, Ellie Goulding, Sam Smith, Rag’n’Bone Man and Jorja Smith. Last year’s winner, Sam Fender, went on to reach No 1 with his debut album Hypersonic Missiles and has an arena tour booked for spring 2020. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2KTo8CI

Country Girls author receives £40,000 David Cohen prize seen as Nobel precursor Edna O’Brien has been awarded a £40,000 lifetime achievement prize regarded as a precursor to the Nobel, for having “moved mountains both politically and lyrically through her writing” in a career spanning almost 60 years. The Irish author was presented with the £40,000 David Cohen prize at a ceremony in London on Tuesday night. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2QTle4Q

Candice Carty-Williams, who began writing to improve representation of black British characters in fiction, joins 19 other authors contending for prestigious book of the year honour Candice Carty-Williams never planned on being an author, but applied to join a writing retreat in 2016 because she felt that black British authors needed more representation in the white world of publishing. Three years down the line, sales of her debut novel Queenie are booming, a Channel 4 adaptation is in the works, and she’s just been shortlisted for the Costa book awards. The story of a young black Londoner negotiating her love life, career and family, Queenie is, according to the judges for the Costas’ first novel category, “eminently readable, funny and thought-provoking”. It’s up for the £5,000 debut prize along with Brian Bilston’s Diary of a Somebody , about a man who decides to write a poem every day for a year; Sara Collins’s The Confessions of Frannie Langton , a historical fiction about a m

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Natural History Museum, London Flanked by Femi Kuti, Arabic singers and a whale skeleton, Coldplay are successfully reinventing themselves but their politics remain too vague For all the grandeur of the 25-metre whale skeleton hanging from the ceiling, the Natural History Museum’s atrium is a relatively intimate venue for stadium stalwarts Coldplay . As Chris Martin himself acknowledges partway through a piano-driven take on A Sky Full of Stars: “Normally we have some fireworks at this point, but they said this building was too precious.” From his repeated references (including some dreadful puns: he’d wanted the gig “near Wales, not whales!”, etc), Martin can’t seem to believe his luck in having secured the “non-conventional venue” for one of the first shows in service of Coldplay’s new release, Everyday Life – tonight, set against skeletal life. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2QVnxnR

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Felipe Torres writes a humorous narrative about what will come next after a series of cultural and environmental changes. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/35GUzfP

Creators James Corden and Ruth Jones are among the stars returning for the festive one-off of the hit sitcom The BBC has unveiled the first trailer for a special Christmas episode of hit sitcom Gavin and Stacey, which returns to screens on 25 December. The series – created by and starring James Corden and Ruth Jones – last aired in 2010, with a New Year’s Day special which drew 10.2 million viewers. Hidden at the end of the series three finale on BBC iPlayer is a new teaser for the festive episode, showing Uncle Bryn (Rob Brydon) struggling to cook Christmas dinner, as Stacey (Joanna Page) and Nessa (Ruth Jones) look on in horror. Corden announced the Christmas special on Twitter back in May, in a Tweet which garnered over a quarter of a million likes. The show’s co-creator and star, who has enjoyed success as a US talk show host in recent years on The Late Late Show, wrote: ‘Ruth Jones and I have been keeping this secret for a while ... We’re excited to share it with you. See you o

Whitney Holmes writes about the history and technology of popcorn, one of the most versatile snacks. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/2KUMmwq

Maya Phillips writes about “Good Eats: The Return,” the resurrection, this year, of “Good Eats,” the cooking show hosted by Alton Brown. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/2OKfSpU

Our puzzle-makers explain how cryptic crosswords work and break down the playful elements of their clues. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/37C21dK

Popcorn has been a quintessential part of the American movie theater experience for decades. But the crunchy, buttery snack has a convoluted history wrapped up in mass marketing, flavor engineering, and even a connection to vaping. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/2DfR3fV

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Deborah Treisman hosts the author Roddy Doyle, who reads his short story “The Curfew,” from the December 2, 2019, issue of The New Yorker. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/37DtQCy

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Once the subject of tabloid moral panics, dance music’s early days are now being celebrated in books and galleries. What can 21st-century Britain learn from the ‘second summer of love’? Modern Toss on rave culture Visitors entered this summer’s Sweet Harmony exhibition through a tangle of ripped-up fencing, as if stealthily gaining access to a forbidden ritual. Inside, old-skool rave anthems rattled the Saatchi Gallery’s window frames. On the walls were hundreds of flyers alongside photographs of saucer-eyed youngsters waving air-horns and wearing T-shirts adorned with amusingly brazen drug references. Dave Swindells , the man responsible for many of these classic photographs – and, indeed, many of the most memorable visual documentations of 1988’s summer of love – was struck by how much his images meant to strangers whose reckless youth he captured. “It’s emotional. I was getting messages from people saying how amazing it was that they were on the walls of the Saatchi!” Continu

Rapper Gnawi cursed the police in a live social media post, but said he was drunk when he made the video. The singer said he felt he had been "mistreated by police" after they stopped him and checked his identity papers. from Deutsche Welle: DW.com - Culture & Lifestyle https://ift.tt/2DgiXZh

Corfe Castle in the clouds; Sagrada Familia from a fresh perspective. Images that impressed at this year’s Historic Photographer of the Year awards Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2OmU4kU

‘I went on a three-day bender in Glasgow and woke up blind in one eye with teeth missing. After I recovered, songs started pouring out of me’ I grew up in Bangor in Northern Ireland and didn’t understand the Troubles when I was younger. I just wanted to get away. Then I saw Nirvana live and my brain exploded. I couldn’t think of anything else. I went to Dundee University with one goal: to start a band. I met a guy from Belfast – Mark McClelland – on the day I arrived and we started Shrug , who evolved into Snow Patrol. Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2qKGAGQ

Jane Mayer on the new book “Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump,” which investigates Trump’s 2016 Presidential campaign. from Culture: TV, Movies, Music, Art, and Theatre News and Reviews https://ift.tt/2DhjxWJ

Director of music at King’s College, Cambridge, in charge of the choir famed for its live Christmas Eve service broadcast on the BBC Sir Stephen Cleobury, who has died of cancer aged 70, was director of music at King’s College, Cambridge, in charge of one of the world’s best known choirs, from 1982 until his retirement earlier this year. He continued the 500-year tradition of choral music at King’s, following on from his immediate predecessors AH Mann, Boris Ord, Sir David Willcocks and Sir Philip Ledger . In an institution associated with gradual evolution rather than revolutionary upheaval, Cleobury’s major contribution to progress was his incorporation of contemporary music into the choir’s repertoire, especially his commissioning of a new carol each year for the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, broadcast live on BBC radio on Christmas Eve. Leading composers who have written new work for the service include Thomas Adès, John Tavener , Mark-Anthony Turnage and Harrison Birtwist

Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X all take home awards in high-energy Los Angeles ceremony Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/34jzlUG

Featuring work by Gerhard Richter, Yoko Ono, William Kentridge and more, Art 19 is an Amnesty exhibition inspired by Article 19, which defends freedom of expression. The show tours Europe next month Continue reading... from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/33fqimv

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K-pop band BTS took home the big prize at Sunday’s American Music Award (AMA) in Los Angeles, beating out The Jonas Brothers and Panic! At The Disco to be named best pop or rock group.It has been a banner year for the Korean pop superstars. In 2019, BTS became the first group since The Beatles to score three number one albums in less than a year; their “Love Yourself: Speak Yourself Tour” was one of the most successful global tours by any band, grossing just under US$117 million; they broke… from South China Morning Post https://ift.tt/33hy1k2

South Korean K-pop singer Goo Hara was found dead at her home in Seoul on Sunday, highlighting the pressures female stars are facing in the cutthroat industry.The 28-year-old’s death came six months after she was found unconscious at her home in what local media described as a suicide attempt and less than six weeks after her friend and fellow K-pop singer Sulli was found dead in a suspected suicide. Goo, who made her K-pop debut in 2008 as a member of the girl band Kara, and later launched her… from South China Morning Post https://ift.tt/35wT43I

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