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How would you explain theatre to somebody who's never been?
The Guardian - Lyn Gardner
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Devon knows how to make homegrown theatre
The Guardian - Lyn Gardner
Doorstep Arts, a project conceived by Battersea Arts Centre and delivered locally by people in Torbay, is fast putting down roots – and we need more initiatives like it What happens when you put funding
Kenneth Branagh's return to the West End is the stuff of fairytales
The Telegraph - By Dominic Cavendish
Dominic Cavendish welcomes the return of the sometime gilded youth of British theatre to the London stage It’s the stuff of fairytales: Kenneth Branagh’s coming back. A generation ago, a 27-year-old stage-actor
Fringe theatre? There’s no such thing
The Guardian - Lyn Gardner
Theatre is theatre, whatever the venue. The term ‘fringe’ hardly captures the breadth of nationwide activity, and only leads to segregated audiences and funding inequalities I was in Sale in Manchester
Revealing Photos of Skylines and Apartment Windows Capture Solitude of City Life
My Modern Met - Kelcee Griffis
Living among millions of other people and bumping shoulders on overflowing sidewalks doesn’t always equate to a sense of community. Ironically, the most thriving metropolis can create the strongest feelings
Emoticons are improving the English language
Quartz - By Lauren Collister
txt msgs r running language *ruining ^lol, jk!! :) In many casual discussions of language and the internet, it’s not uncommon to hear about how such “textspeak ruins language”—how technology has made lazy
This Guy Turned A Quadcopter Into A Star Wars Speeder Bike And It’s Amazing
TechCrunch - Greg Kumparak
Okay, this is the last quadcopter-to-“Star Wars Universe”-thing we (or at least I) will post*, I promise. [* this week] BUT SERIOUSLY, LOOK AT THIS THING. It is perfection. About 30 seconds into the video,
It Follows review – sexual dread fuels a modern horror classic
The Guardian - Peter Bradshaw
A friend confessed to me recently that this was the only film to have given him, in adult life, a proper wake-up-sweating nightmare. I don’t think I have ever had a nightmare quite as scary as this film
How Designers Built The World Of “The Grand Budapest Hotel” By Hand
Fast Company - By Carey Dunne
Anderson’s avoidance of CGI and freakish devotion to handmade, old-fashioned production design lends his latest epic its fantastical charm. In his Oscar-nominated 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes
Get Creative campaign hopes to unleash the artist inside Britons
The Guardian - Mark Brown, arts correspondent
Arts funding,Drama and dance,Art,BBC,Timothy Spall,Johnny Vegas,Stage,Dance,UK news,Arts in schools,Royal Shakespeare Company,Young Vic BBC’s venture with institutions such as Royal Shakespeare Company
Spider-Man to join Marvel superheroes in shared movie universe
The Guardian - Ben Child
The sticky-fingered superhero is to be rebooted again, as Sony and Marvel agree that he can re-enter the fold alongside regular Avengers Spider-Man will appear in a Marvel superhero movie for the first
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Little Kids Learn The Same Way Pigeons Do
HuffPost - Carolyn Gregoire
We often point to language as evidence of our species' superiority. But the way humans learn language may not be so foreign to other animals, after all. A new study has found that the lowly pigeon may
Churchill drama Darkest Hour on the way from The Theory of Everything team
The Guardian - Ben Child
Forthcoming film will focus on moment when British troops were stranded in Dunkirk, and will be written by Theory of Everything screenwriter Anthony McCarten, who is up for two Oscars this year The writer
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Japanese Army Builds Gigantic Star Wars Snow Sculpture
My Modern Met - Alice Yoo
May the force be with you! The 66th annual Sapporo Snow Festival kicked off today and the most impressive snow sculpture of all features Darth Vader, his three stormtroopers and TIE fighters. This Star
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Macro Photos Show Amazing Details of Everyday Objects
My Modern Met - Kelcee Griffis
In his macro photo series Amazing Worlds Within Our World, artist Pyanek demonstrates the enormous complexity of everyday objects. Through the modified Canon T3i lens, squiggly fibers in book pages come
Could Chris Pratt be the man for another Indiana Jones crusade?
The Guardian - Ben Child
There hasn’t always been a great deal of buzz around the idea of reviving Indiana Jones on the big screen, largely due to lingering fears that Shia LaBeouf might somehow be allowed to graduate from Kingdom
Photographer Captures an Eerily Empty New York City
My Modern Met - Alice Yoo
It was suppose to be the snow storm that paralyzed New York City, but it in the end it turned out to be a bust. Still, a few days ago, everyone cleared out, making it the perfect place to shoot a rarely
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How to Build a Camera Dolly Out of LEGO Pieces
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
Photographer Pascal Kulcsar of Mainz, Germany wanted to add some movements to his time-lapse videos, so he built himself a fancy dolly using LEGO …
Peter Bradshaw’s top 50 films of the demi-decade
The Guardian - Peter Bradshaw
As far as actors are concerned, the first five years of the 2010s proved that you can’t make it big unless you’re prepared to get into the Lycra and stride around in front of the greenscreen. This has
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The 13 Best Things to Watch on Netflix When You're Hungover
Elle - By Eliza Thompson
1. You've Got Mail and/or Sleepless in Seattle Photo: Warner Bros. Absolutely nothing cures a hangover like a greasy breakfast sandwich eaten over a rom-com, and absolutely no '90s movie couple warms soul