15.12 GMT Last modified on Mon 8 Mar 2021 18.23 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘It could be like The Simpsons’ … from left, James Gandolfini, Michael Imperioli, Tony Sirico and Steven Van Zandt in The Sopranos. Photograph: HBO/Everett/Rex Features David Chase, creator, writer and producer I was still writing the pilot […]
14.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 8 Mar 2021 15.56 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Some of the books Sophie Baggott has read over the last three years. Composite: PR Three years ago, when I set out to read writing by a woman from every country in the world, I had no […]
15.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Adrian Younge Photograph: The Artform Studio The American Negro is a mammoth project from producer and multi-instrumentalist Adrian Younge: a 26-track part-spoken word, part-orchestral examination of the structural racism underpinning the identity of modern America. It forms just one part of Younge’s current projects on […]
06.00 GMT Last modified on Sun 7 Mar 2021 06.02 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Joe Biden and Barack Obama campaign at Birmingham Unitarian Church in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Seven million votes more was almost not enough. Had 45,000 gone the other way in Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin, […]
11.40 GMT Last modified on Fri 5 Mar 2021 13.40 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Push and pull … Dave Stewart and Joss Stone. Composite: Getty With UK venues closed because of the pandemic, theatregoers would love to travel forward in time to see a new show. One of the new musicals […]
16.30 GMT Last modified on Wed 24 Feb 2021 17.19 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘The guy is curious and amused, wondering about me’ … the lake at Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Photograph: Irina Rozovsky I thought I knew Prospect Park. Living in Brooklyn, I had visited many times. It was always […]
15.49 GMT Last modified on Thu 4 Mar 2021 17.39 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda in FTA. Photograph: Kino Lorber In retrospect, it’s clear why America’s imperial project in Vietnam failed back in the ‘60s: you can’t win a war when your army doesn’t want to fight. […]
12.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 5 Mar 2021 12.03 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Under attack – by trolls … John Boyega and Kelly Marie Tran in Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Photograph: Allstar/Lucasfilm/Walt Disney Pictures It’s ironic that Star Wars, perhaps the ultimate tale of good triumphing over evil, has […]
09.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 5 Mar 2021 09.13 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Going Deutsch … Niels Bormann (left) and Jonas Nay in Deutschland 89. Photograph: Anika Molnar/Channel 4 Deutschland 83/86/89Walter Presents Since 2016, Channel 4’s Walter Presents portal has offered an intriguing TV window on the world. Deutschland 83 […]
01.47 GMT Last modified on Fri 5 Mar 2021 08.03 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email To continue publishing the six books would be disrespectful to Seuss’s legacy of kindness and empathy. Photograph: Hero Images/Getty Images/Hero Images Children’s literature sits at an awkward crossroads, where it is expected to be art, education and […]
07.23 GMT Last modified on Fri 26 Feb 2021 19.57 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A still from The Dilemma. Photograph: Photo Credit: Chuck Hodes/Publicity image from film company When The Dilemma opened in January 2011 it was met with critical contempt and box office apathy. Audiences then and now are befuddled […]
07.00 GMT Stanbury, West YorkshirePonden Hall, an award-winning B&B, may have been the inspiration for Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. Supposedly, the Brontë sisters spent time at the house, which was owned by family friends. According to locals, the tiny single-paned window is where Cathy furiously scratched at the glass in the east wing, which dates back […]
20.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 4 Mar 2021 20.10 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Fruit of comedy loins … Eddie Murphy as Prince Akeem with Jermaine Fowler as his son, Lavelle, in Coming 2 America. Photograph: Quantrell D Colbert/Amazon Studios Did we need a sequel to Eddie Murphy’s fish-out-of-water 1980s romp […]
19.36 GMT Last modified on Thu 4 Mar 2021 19.38 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email A cryptoart rendering of the Nyan Cat meme recently sold for about $US600,000. A unique version of the widely distributed image was made using blockchain. Photograph: YouTube Pat, I keep hearing references to cryptoart which are all […]
15.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 4 Mar 2021 19.53 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Mathhew Modine, fan of Oliver!, The Man Who Would Be Kings and Midnight Cowboy. Composite: Allstar/Rex The Beatles I am the youngest of seven, so I got a steady diet of the Beatles from my brothers and […]
07.00 GMT Joseph Rodríguez’s work looks at cops, victims and violent perpetrators in the working-class communities of Pico Union and South Central Los Angeles. This photo ran in the New York Times Magazine in 1995 with the caption: ‘Los Angeles police officers are feeling the heat from all sides: from the mayor, from their superiors and […]
12.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 4 Mar 2021 15.33 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email 4 / 5 stars 4 out of 5 stars. Brighter-hued than recent albums … Jane Weaver. Photograph: Nic Chapman Jane Weaver’s 11th album arrives heralded by the artist’s assurance that it’s the record she has “always wanted […]
12.37 GMT First published on Wed 3 Mar 2021 00.18 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Play Video 1:24 ‘Vaccine, vaccine’: Dolly Parton adapts Jolene as she receives Covid-19 jab she helped fund – video Dolly Parton burst into song on Tuesday as she received her first dose of the Moderna Covid vaccine […]
08.56 GMT Last modified on Wed 3 Mar 2021 09.33 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Filiming The Mess You Leave Behind in the Galician mountains. Photograph: Jaime Olmedo/Netflix Rosa Vargas’s arrival in a small town in north-western Spain to investigate the disappearance of a young girl marked an unlikely milestone. Vargas is […]
14.49 GMT Last modified on Wed 3 Mar 2021 03.59 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Dr Seuss’s If I Ran the Zoo depicts two men, described as being from Africa, wearing grass skirts and carrying exotic-looking animals. Photograph: Erin McCracken/AP Publication of six Dr Seuss books will cease, the company that preserves […]
09.07 GMT Last modified on Wed 3 Mar 2021 09.49 GMT Bunny Wailer, left, with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, right, in 1964. Born in 1947 in Kingston, he and Marley became friends as toddlers, and formed the Wailers in 1963, which settled into a core trio of the pair alongside Tosh Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives Facebook […]
07.00 GMT Winner: Untitled, from the book The UncannyLéonard Pongo is the winner of the ICP/GOST First Photo Book award 2020, from the International Center for Photography and publisher GOST. The Uncanny explores Pongo’s relationship to the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the inner process he went through as he tried to understand the region, reconnect […]
10.53 GMT Last modified on Tue 2 Mar 2021 16.23 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email The woman stays in the picture … Alice Guy-Blaché, top left, on the France set of The Life of Christ in 1906. Photograph: Everett Collection/Alamy Everything we’re told about cinema is that it’s shaped by men. If […]
11.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 1 Mar 2021 11.02 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email ‘This story doesn’t have to have a tragic ending’ … Christopher Wallace, AKA Notorious BIG, with Hitman 50 Grand. Photograph: Netflix Perhaps posthumous legacy was always on the mind of late rapper Christopher “Notorious BIG” Wallace. His […]
07.00 GMT Actor Jeremy Irons, the Midland Hotel, Manchester, 1979Brian Griffin’s autobiography Black Country DADA charts his fascinating career, covering the period 1969-90. He writes: ‘Those were analogue days! Growing up among the factories of the Black Country, studying photography in Manchester alongside my friends Daniel Meadows and Martin Parr, and then with trepidation going down […]
21.00 GMT Last modified on Sun 28 Feb 2021 15.43 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Oprah Winfrey will talk to Meghan and Harry in an exclusive interview on 7 March. Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP You could have forgiven the British royal family for giving primetime, tell-all interviews a wide berth for the foreseeable. […]
04.33 GMT Last modified on Mon 1 Mar 2021 08.43 GMT Renée Zellweger announces the late Chadwick Boseman as the winner of the award for best actor in a drama award for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Photograph: Christopher Polk/NBC via Getty Images Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sacha Baron Cohen, who won best actor in a motion picture musical […]
07.00 GMT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Albrecht Dürer’s Wing Blue Roller (1512) ‘lends the bird a semblance of living glory’. Photograph: Art Heritage/Alamy Albrecht Dürer was the first great sightseer in the history of art, travelling Europe to see conjoined twins, Aztec gold, Venetian gondolas and the bones of an 18ft […]
13.21 GMT Last modified on Mon 1 Mar 2021 14.20 GMT Josh O’Connor, who won best actor for his role as Prince Charles in The Crown, looked suitably regal and just a little bit like a Romantic poet in a Loewe cream suit. Photograph: David M Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Bulgari Facebook Twitter Pinterest She might not […]
15.12 GMT Last modified on Sun 28 Feb 2021 15.29 GMT London, UKChildren celebrating the Jewish holiday Purim stand in front of their house waiting for guests Photograph: Ming Yeung/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Pinterest Baikonur Cosmodrome, KazakhstanBlastoff for the Soyuz spacecraft carrying the Arktika-M satellite, which will monitor the Arctic’s climate Photograph: Russian Space Agency Roscosmos/Reuters Facebook […]