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Rasam (film)
A wedding feast in Doha where food is the hero — but nobody shows up for the meal.
Worth skipping
The brief is enough. Save the hours.
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Rum
Rum did not exist in 1500 — and pretending it did erases the enslaved people who actually invented it decades later.
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The Tuxedo
A tuxedo that fights, sings, and kills by dehydration isn’t satire—it’s surrender.
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Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens
A prize-winning light novel that launched two manga and an anime — but never once cooked with its own title.
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New exit for the Uffizi Gallery
A loggia designed to connect museum and city has spent two decades disconnected from both.
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Green tea
Green tea is not medicine — it’s a culturally persistent placebo with documented harms.
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Hugo Boss
Hugo Boss · 1924
Hugo Boss in 1924 was a regional workwear factory — not a fashion institution, not a design innovator, not a global brand. Its significance lies entirely in what came after: Nazi Party membership in 1931, wartime exploitation of 140 forced labourers, and a delayed reckoning that arrived only in 2001. The 1924 origin is factual scaffolding — not cultural substance.
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New wave of new wave
A scene invented by NME writers to sell an EP—and buried by Britpop before it could breathe.
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Stuart Hall (presenter)
A broadcaster’s longevity was not achievement — it was cover.
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Fukui Culture Television
A TV station that existed only in planning documents — and tells us more about Japan’s digital turn than about Fukui’s culture.