All posts tagged "Culture"
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CultureSex, drugs and a lot more than rock’n’roll: 50 years of Triple J, Australia’s youth radio station | Radio
Fifty years since the launch of 2JJ, or Double Jay – the station that became Triple J in 1981 – radio’s former...
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51CultureNils Frahm: ‘Using a chainsaw gave me strength in my fingers for piano’ | Music
Music was everywhere when I grew up, not just on the stereo. My mother had a piano. My father played guitar and...
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2CultureVermiglio review – exquisite Italian Alps wartime drama | Drama films
The year is 1944. But the remote Italian Alpine village of Vermiglio is a place of timeless rhythms and rituals, unchanged for...
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6CultureOn my radar: Naomi Alderman’s cultural highlights | Naomi Alderman
Born in London in 1974, the author Naomi Alderman studied PPE at Oxford and creative writing at the University of East Anglia....
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2Culture‘I knew I was overexercising and not eating enough’: novelist Emma Healey on the dark side of self-control | Books
Emma Healey’s two previous novels explored themes vivid in her own life. The protagonist of her bestselling debut, Elizabeth Is Missing, for which Healey won...
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2CultureVictoria Canal: Slowly, It Dawns review – a musical promise fulfilled | Pop and rock
With two Ivor Novello awards for songwriting and a mentorship from Chris Martin that landed her on the Pyramid stage last year...
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3CultureBlood Simple at 40: how the Coens set the standard for modern noir | Coen brothers
The loathsome proprietor of a Texas bar slumps in his office chair after hours, seemingly dead from a gunshot wound to the...
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31CultureGuy Pearce: ‘My ex-wife was the greatest love of my life, but I’ve moved on now’ | Guy Pearce
Born in Cambridgeshire, Guy Pearce, 57, grew up in Australia and was in Neighbours. He starred in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen...
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2CultureOff your high horse: Argentina’s new sport of e-wheel polo – in pictures
Roda polo, which started during the Covid pandemic in Argentina, replaces horses with electric wheels, so it is cheaper and no animals...
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41CultureBilly Bob Thornton: ‘I didn’t want Johnny Cash to catch me looking in his fridge in my underpants’ | Film
Is your music less important, more important, or about as important as your film work? BenderRodriguezHere’s the thing: I grew up in...
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7CultureMac Miller: Balloonerism review – poignant second posthumous album | Mac Miller
The second posthumous album released since the death of American rapper Mac Miller in 2018 ponders delusions and lost innocence. Drug use...
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31CultureTV tonight: the return of more super-fun 90s games in Gladiators | Television & radio
Gladiators 5.50pm, BBC One Contender, ready? Gladiators is back with some zhushing up: Hammer and Cyclone join the pack and there’s the...
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5CultureThe Memory Palace by Nate DiMeo audiobook review – bite-size historical wonders | Books
Podcast listeners may have come across The Memory Palace, the longrunning series comprising bite-size vignettes about forgotten moments in history, set against...
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61CultureSonghoy Blues: Héritage review – the Malian rockers take a gorgeous acoustic turn | Pop and rock
Each of Songhoy Blues’ albums has mapped slightly different terrain. The Malian rockers’ 2015 debut, Music in Exile, was a gripping, energising...
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41CultureThe best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup | Thrillers
Havoc by Christopher Bollen (Borough, £16.99)The narrator of American author Bollen’s latest novel, 81-year-old Wisconsin widow Maggie Burkhardt, has an insatiable desire...
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3CultureMobb Deep review – New York rap duo can still keep the temperature rising | Rap
Big Noyd holds up a half-drunk bottle of brandy as though it were an Olympic torch, pleading: “Lord forgive me, the Hennessy...
