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Creatures, fairies and dark hunters: fantastical fun at Melbourne’s Starfall ball – in pictures
Fantasy fiction fans stepped into a make-believe world at the Melbourne Town Hall on 24 October for the Celestial Events Starfall ball. Tiaras, pixie ears, horns and wings proved popular attire for the immersive event in…
Stephen Fry: ‘Sherlock Holmes altered the course of my whole life’
Nearly a hundred years after Arthur Conan Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes story, the writer and broadcaster unravels the mystery of the detective’s enduring appealIt has become quite the fashion for contemporary writers to…
Lights out: the island that goes dark to save young seabirds – in pictures
Every autumn, Corvo Island in the Azores turns off its public lighting for a few key days to help fledgling Cory’s shearwaters as they attempt to fly to the ocean guided by the starsOnce a year, Corvo, the smallest and m…
Arup creates arrow-shaped viewpoint for Fehmarnbelt Tunnel project
A zigzagging path tops the demountable Pilen viewpoint in Denmark, created by engineering firm Arup to give the public views of the construction of the vast Fehmarnbelt Tunnel. Fehmarnbelt Tunnel is an 18-kilometre-long…
‘I’d rather live through something publicly than escape it privately’: Jack Antonoff on survivor’s guilt and still singing love songs after his breakup
Whether he’s playing the role of soul-baring artist or starry producer, the Bleachers frontman strives to keep his integrity intact. He weighs in on Ed Sheeran, his love of working on ‘high-stakes’ albums and why he’s st…
Five uncanny venues where guests are treated to frightfully unique interiors
With spooky season in full swing and Halloween rapidly approaching, this lookbook rounds up five venues featuring unusual decor, including faux body parts, dead insects and slaughterhouse machinery. A London pub, a brewe…
Sam Fender calls out ticket prices ahead of tour
The Geordie singer appears to have lowered ticket prices ahead of his upcoming tour.
‘I’m not someone who has sex to music. I like uncomfortable silence’: Katherine Ryan’s honest playlist
The comedian unashamedly loves the Spice Girls’ Wannabe and cries to Boyz II Men, but which novelty song changed her life?The first song I fell in love with My mother would sing and dance and cook and clean in the kitche…
How ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ Grew Up
A musical adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story has been in the works for nearly 10 years. Now it is making its U.S. debut at the Public Theater.
Crusading to Restore the Reputation of His Favorite Filmmaker
Sam Wasson venerates Frank Capra, who directed a clutch of Hollywood classics. His new biography aims to challenge an earlier, unflattering portrait.
Derren Brown turns into Nostradamus – and I predict you’ll submit to one gasp-inducing stunt after another
Apollo theatre, LondonProphecies are impossibly fulfilled by the superstar who takes his cue from the legendary French seer in his show Only HumanDo we have free will – or are the words I am about to write, the four star…
Collectible furniture meets cultural critique at Dutch Design Week’s Table of Power
Show Not Show has put a twist on a classic project documenting the echelons of power with an exhibition of the design collective’s furniture at Dutch Design Week.
Why the charts are full of old songs - and so are your playlists
The chart is full of old music and classic songs are dominating streaming services. But why?
Artists Take to the Streets Amid Massive Protests in France
Tens of thousands gathered at Porte d’Italie in Paris for a march led in part by culture-sector coalitions demanding a better life for artists.
Anthony LaPaglia: ‘There is not a role I didn’t get that I ever gave more than four hours of grievance to – even Tony Soprano’
The actor on surviving 2000s network television in Without a Trace, the role that made him take Brad Pitt seriously, and leaving the US to ‘ride out Trump’Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailI didn’t know before r…
TV stars to marry in chapel home after proposal 'on Welsh soil'
Keith Brymer Jones and Marj Hogarth are to marry in their chapel home in Pwllheli in May 2027.
‘Ali G: Who Iz I?’: What to Know
Sacha Baron Cohen has revived his fictional wannabe rapper in a new movie that will be in theaters for just this weekend. Here’s what to know.
‘Our third date was at Buckingham Palace’: Marlon James and Nicholas Boggs on life as a literary power couple
Shortlisted for the Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes respectively, the novelist and biographer talk about working and living together – and giving a voice to Black queer historyThe literary power couple is a historicall…
Swoon! London City Ballet are positively glowing in a night of dreams – and ghosts from dance history
Sadler’s Wells, LondonAlina Cojocaru astonishes in John Neumeier’s Ghost Light, an ethereal meditation on time, while Glen Tetley’s Firebird has much to cherishA ghost light is the name for a single lamp left on stage wh…
Ryu Murakami, cult Japanese author, dies aged 74
The bestselling writer, known as Japan’s enfant terrible, explored the dark underbelly of Japanese society in more than 40 works of subversive fiction including Audition, later made into a landmark indie horror movieRyu…
Stranger things turn an English village upside down in Max Porter’s rural noir Lanny
Bristol Old VicA family are just getting used to their new home in this haunting drama when a parallel world emergesOverheard in the auditorium during the interval: it’s like Tales of the Unexpected meets Jackanory. But…