Lifestyle » 4 weeks ago
(Strut)This San Francisco session released for Record Store Day sets spoken word to Ackamoor’s uncompromising but joyous spiritual jazzIdris Ackamoor was a champion of Afrofuturism long before that term was coined; his 70s band the Pyramids combined funk and ava...
Lifestyle » 4 weeks ago
Duke of York’s, London A triumphant staging by Rebecca Lucy Taylor of her new album, A Complicated Woman, is part artistic statement, part power pop club nightHard-edged digital club music throbs from the theatre stage – a place most...
Lifestyle » 4 weeks ago
Somerset House, LondonAfter 10 fun-packed years, it’s a wrap for the UK’s biggest celebration of indie, communal gameplay. But the folk games at the heart of this year’s edition have now filtered into the mainstream, from Taskmaster to The Traitors...
Lifestyle » 4 weeks ago
Grosses Festspielhaus, Salzburg; Royal Opera House, LondonMussorgsky’s apocalyptic unfinished opera is given a fierce new lease of life by the McBurney brothers, Esa-Pekka Salonen and an exceptional young mezzo. And not even illness can keep a great Ca...
Lifestyle » 4 weeks ago
Sadler’s Wells, LondonA triple bill of works by the celebrated American choreographer William Forsythe show ENB’s dancers at their roof-raising bestIt’s no coincidence that so many of a new generation of choreographers have danced fo...
Lifestyle » 4 weeks ago
A poet’s memoir of family, trauma, and Virginia Woolf pulses with feeling and intelligenceLike most kids, Heather Christle was drilled about “stranger danger”. Like some, she had a family codeword designed to show that an adult picking them up from school when her mother ...
World » 4 weeks ago
Opposition says trial was staged to entrench president Kais Saied’s authoritarian ruleA Tunisian court has handed down prison sentences of 13 to 66 years to politicians, businessmen and lawyers ...
World » 4 weeks ago
This blog is now closed.Anywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to them...
World » 4 weeks ago
Member states are considering removing the country’s voting rights after its attempts to stymie support for KyivThe posters are going up all over Hungary. “Let’s not allow them to decide for us,” runs the slogan alongside three classic villains of Hungarian government pro...
Entertainment » 4 weeks ago
The once fearless, now formulaic, satirical show is on its way from the US. Can it bring back the fun?What makes good satire? The answer might vary depending on who you ask. What is more unifying, however, is what doesn’t. Most would agree it’s things like punching down, ...