Focus / Culture - 14 hours ago
The Noughts & Crosses author is among the starry ambassadors for the campaign – one of the initiatives aimed at addressing the reading crisisLast night, the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, announced a £27.5m package for libraries. It’s the latest in a string of reading-focused government initiati...
Focus / Culture - 14 hours ago
Dark obsessions drive this debut about the golden era of magazines – but its vile and hilarious heroine is not someone you want to spend so much time withLast year the New York Times ran a quiz entitled “Could You Have Landed a Job at Vogue in the 90s?” It was based on the fabled four-page exam Anna...
Focus / Culture - 15 hours ago
Does your movie call for a golden, diamond-encrusted Furby or replica nuclear missile? The prop master will find one for you – or even make it from scratchThe red and blue pills in The Matrix. The Rosebud sled in Citizen Kane. Marsellus Wallace’s briefcase in Pulp Fiction, contents unknown. The (rea...
Focus / Culture - 16 hours ago
From newbie drag queens to wild voguing performances, a new archival exhibition boasts images from four decades of riotous nightlife Continue reading...
Focus / Culture - 16 hours ago
Saipan, about Keane’s infamous World Cup row with manager Mick McCarthy, has become a hit film in its native Ireland – as it opens in the UK screenwriter Paul Fraser explains how he aimed to avoid the mistakes of the pastThe best bit of football action in Saipan happens on a tennis court. The forthc...
Focus / Culture - 16 hours ago
China isn’t the only country imposing limits on creative expression, argues the provocative artist‘Chinese culture is the opposite of& provocation,” Ai Weiwei once told an interviewer. “It tries to seek harmony in human nature and society.” Harmony has never been his bag. Provocation though? In spad...
Focus / Culture - 17 hours ago
Scott calls on Davina to help find his long-lost sister in the heart-tugging series. Plus, a Dispatches investigation into Palestine Action. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, ITV1The DNA show never fails to make your eyes leak. Scott was 12 years old when he learned that his mum and dad were act...
Focus / Culture - 17 hours ago
The band went on hiatus after outrage over onstage joke in 2024, but Gass confirms the band will return, saying: ‘It was hard. It is like a marriage’Tenacious D member Kyle Gass has confirmed that he and bandmate Jack Black have reconciled and will reunite, after outrage over an onstage joke about t...
It will move to the former JD Sports unit next month
It could bring a sigh of relief to locals in one corner of the county
Focus / Culture - 18 hours ago
The Gangs of London star returned to the stage alongside Ben Whishaw in a 2024 production of Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece. In this diary of the first preview, he describes passing the point of no returnI step into the wings and the state of it all hits me. The hum of a packed, expectant crowd ready...
A Reform Derby councillor told council chiefs the new venue has been 'flat' of late
Another man has been charged in connection with the incident
It has struck a deal to pay off its debts, totalling £2.2m to various creditors, in monthly instalments
The Horsley seat on Derbyshire County Council was vacated following the resignation of a Reform councillor due to ill health