All posts tagged "Culture"
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10CultureMac 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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91CultureTV 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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8CultureThe 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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71CultureSonghoy 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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71CultureThe 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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5CultureMobb 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...
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5Culture‘I was playing grannies at 38’: Keeley Hawes on fame, frocks and feminism | Keeley Hawes
Keeley Hawes is reminiscing about hanging out with Harrison Ford at the Emmys. “I said hello, as you do, and we ended...
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4CultureRob Copland on his head-banging, daredevil comedy: ‘I want it to feel like a punk rock show’ | Comedy
Comedian Rob Copland is sipping a pint of Guinness as I arrive at a cosy pub near his south London flat. There’s a...
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10CultureFrom Mulholland Drive to Twin Peaks via Lost Highway: all David Lynch’s films and TV shows – ranked | David Lynch
It is one of life’s eternal mysteries that for the last two decades of his life, no one was willing to fund...
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8CultureExperts hope The Brutalist will revive interest in UK’s modernist buildings | Architecture
“A mildewed lump of elephant droppings” is how King Charles, then Prince of Wales, described the Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth after a...
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4Culture‘Let Amazonians speak for themselves’: trouble in paradise for Sebastião Salgado’s Amazônia | Photography
Sebastião Salgado’s jaw-dropping images of the world’s largest rainforest are renowned for leaving viewers stunned. That’s largely been the case at the...
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3Culture‘Not second screen enough’: is Netflix deliberately dumbing down TV so people can watch while scrolling? | Television
Be honest: how much attention do you pay when you watch TV? If you’re familiar with the ritual of half-watching a series...
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5Culture‘David Lynch altered our brains’: fellow directors, friends and fans remember a titan of cinema | David Lynch
‘I told them: There’s no way I can improve Blue Velvet’ Paul Schrader, director David couldn’t get Blue Velvet made. Dino De...
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91Culture‘Impish, tremendously warm, never grand’: Sheila Reid pays tribute to Joan Plowright | Joan Plowright
I’d seen Joan on stage before I joined her in the National Theatre company at the Old Vic in the 1960s. So...
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231CultureHow have the California wildfires affected Hollywood? | Film industry
The California wildfires have to date killed at least 25 people, destroyed or damaged more than 12,000 structures and put about 300,000...
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13CultureThe Employees review – monumental event theatre with fragments from a far-flung world | Theatre
In this sci-fi dystopia, Earth has been destroyed and a spaceship is orbiting an unknown planet. The setup, too, is unfamiliar, challenging...
