Focus / Culture - 14 hours ago
Jane’s Addiction’s future is in doubt after a mid-song spat last weekend – but from the Kinks to Oasis, such squabbles are extremely commonBoston bust-up as bandmates brawl at Jane’s Addiction reunion gigLong before they decided All You Need Is Love, even the Fab Four were subject to an onstage bust...
Focus / Culture - 14 hours ago
The artist has a studio attached to a morgue in Mexico City and uses fluids from corpses to make art. She talks about her latest project – placing the face casts of trans people in a giant cube in Trafalgar SquareTeresa Margolles is standing in a warehouse on the Thames estuary, surrounded by large...
Focus / Culture - 15 hours ago
Saffron Hall, Saffron WaldenThe ambitious Saffron Opera Group’s concert performance of Wagner’s opera had lost its leading man, but the orchestra proved more of a problemOutside, interval conversation involves the intermittent roar of aircraft landing at nearby Stansted. Inside, you might enjoy a dr...
Focus / Culture - 15 hours ago
As his heavy metal band Body Count return, the vocalist and actor will answer questions about his varied careerWith a scorn-dripping voice put to work on everything from classic hip-hop to gnarly heavy metal, Ice-T is one of America’s most iconic MCs – and as he and his band Body Count get ready to...
Focus / Culture - 15 hours ago
Managers of building in which Emin owns a flat want to replace windows but opponents say they are a key featureThe 18-storey Arlington House in Margate has long been considered a brutalist masterpiece. It inspired the English rock band Hawkwind’s song High Rise and recently featured in Sam Mendes’s...
Focus / Culture - 16 hours ago
‘It’s about a guy who has this horrible private obsession but doesn’t accept he’s hurting anyone. He feels he’s a good father, a good family man, and that this other life is his alone. Sadly, I don’t think that’s rare’I’d had an unexpected success with my movie Welcome to the Dollhouse and, knowing...
Focus / Culture - 17 hours ago
Judge rules presidential candidate is liable for damages over unauthorised use of Grant’s song Electric Avenue in animated video ridiculing Joe BidenDonald Trump has lost a legal battle with the singer Eddy Grant over using his 1983 song Electric Avenue in a 2020 ad without permission.The 40-second...
Focus / Culture - 17 hours ago
The third of nine Jackson children and last to release a solo project, Tito was ‘an incredible man who cared about everyone’Tito Jackson, one of the brothers who made up the pop group the Jackson 5, has died at the age of 70.Tito was the third of nine Jackson children, including global superstars Mi...
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There are plenty of weekends left to see them all before October 27
Focus / Culture - 18 hours ago
Barbican, LondonSoloists Yuja Wang and Anna Lapwood brought style and spectacle to Rachmaninov and Saint-SaënsIn an Olympian feat of programming, Antonio Pappano’s first few concerts as chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra feature works by 11 different composers over just eight days. His...
Focus / Culture - 18 hours ago
Dillon plays a man with more red flags than a golf course and Aida Folch does her best stay above water in Fernando Trueba’s noir-adjacent filmNeither pulpy enough for the midnight movie crowd, nor classy enough for the arthouse, this alleged thriller about a young woman called Alex (Aida Folch), wh...
Focus / Culture - 19 hours ago
Milton Keynes theatreThe indefatigable comic eschews the cliches of most middle-aged standups and skewers modern life with fairness and charmA central section of Ben Elton’s new show addresses euthanasia, with the 65-year-old strongly asserting the right to die for those who feel they have run out o...
The 28-year-old has not been seen since early this morning (Monday, September 16)
Focus / Culture - 20 hours ago
This debut feature from Alan Scott Neal shows plenty of promise, with its classic setup and innovative midpoint switcharoundThe first half of this 80-minute roadside diner siege horror plays out almost like a section of an anthology film, calling to mind the nasty little slasher The Gas Station in...