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(Sony)Lawsuits and lost love couldn’t stop the Colombian powerhouse from taking her rightful place atop Spanish pop’s streaming-fuelled resurgenceStreaming and AI may yet destroy music for ever – don’t be sad, we had a good run – but one of the sweet...
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Sardonic tribute to cheating husband ‘Roger’ on bench in Bristol prompts mention of elusive graffiti artistThe amateur sleuths, conspiracy theorists and mischief makers on the sweeping Royal York Crescent in Clifton, Bristol, all have opinions about...
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Remarks scribbled in a Finnish copy of the much-loved book, to be featured in an exhibition on the author, reveal how the story was misunderstoodIt is Raymond Briggs’s most loved book, notching up sales of 5.5m, while the TV adaptation is a hardy per...
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Australian brothers Cameron and Colin Cairnes deliver satire and shocks in this gleeful sendup of 70s network talkshowsA malign presence lurks in the corner, insidiously leaking poison into our minds; it’s ubiquitous and addictive. Small wonder that...
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The singer, 44, talks about her earliest memories, awkward teenage years, thrill-seeking days and her chance to make music with her childhood heroMy earliest memory is of a dream I had aged three: standing in the park near my New York daycare, I bit...
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(Columbia)The first album in 12 years from Beth Ditto’s US dance-punk trio feels strongly personal and political. Musically, though, it pulls its punchesGossip – the trio made up of singer Beth Ditto, multi-instrumentalist Nathan Howdeshell and drumm...
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The role-playing game, largely powered by participants’ imaginations, continues to attract fans half a century after it was launchedEveryone remembers their first Dungeons & Dragons character. For Sam Gyseman, it was a dwarf called Sven Olafson....
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F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel was a flop until a 1926 staging became a Broadway smashIt is the quintessential novel of the hedonistic jazz age, a roaring 20s story about the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan....
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Stone Nest; Wigmore Hall; Royal Opera House, LondonPergolesi’s Stabat Mater is reimagined for the stage; the South African soprano scales the heights from Strauss to The Sound of Music; and Asmik Grigorian is a shattering ButterflyThe virgin of sorro...
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Mark Roesler is a publicist with a difference – most of the clients he represents are no longer alive. And thanks to AI, holograms and social media, being dead famous is more lucrative than everThe celebrity agent Mark Roesler is telling me about a n...
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The acting couple on second chances, family dynamics, and losing their daughterBorn in Albrighton, Shropshire, in 1962, Jason Watkins is a Bafta-award-winning actor best known for his comic and dramatic roles in TV& hits such as W1A, Line of Duty and...
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They were initially dismissed as the acme of upper-class preppiness, but the band’s new album Only God Was Above Us is its grittiest yet. Has their frontman finally exorcised past demons?On its surface, Only God Was& Above Us, the fifth album from Va...
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Newly restored plant house at Wentworth Woodhouse, home to some of world’s oldest camellias, formally opens as a global teahouse“These plants would have been the Van Dycks of their day, there was that much kudos attached to them,” said the head garde...
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Sarah McCammon of NPR brings personal experience and reportorial rigor to her portrayal of a growing Christian crisisSarah McCammon’s new book about “exvangelicals” like herself is a powerful memoir of her complicated journey away from Christian fund...
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Are we living through the end times? Dorian Lynskey interrogates our insatiable appetite for doom - and asks why each generation is so drawn to the idea that they will be the lastIt is a sunny afternoon in Taormina, Sicily, and two wealthy couples on...