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Arts

  • blonde woman holding microphone sings

    Music
    ‘I was drunk’: Ingrid Andress responds to criticism of national anthem performance

  • two men pose for a photo

    Music
    Tenacious D’s Trump shocker upends a career of perfectly judged musical comedy

  • ‘Characters are like paint brushed on my canvas’ … Baker filming Janet Planet.

    Film
    Turn on, tune in … fathom humanity: Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker on her hippy film debut

    The writer has made the leap into film with Janet Planet, about a mother and daughter drifting apart on a hippy commune. She talks about how it echoes her own upbringing – and why her younger self would be horrified
  • Seth Meyers: ‘Political violence must be rejected in all its forms – it is both morally wrong and a poison to democracy.’

    Television
    Seth Meyers on Trump assassination attempt: ‘Poison to our democracy’

  • young man and woman sitting on wooden steps holding a film clapperboard

    Television
    ‘Pedal to the metal’: what can we expect from Stranger Things season five?

  • Addam and Alyn of Hull (Clinton Liberty and Abubakar Salim) in House of the Dragon

    Television
    ‘Every day we’d think … Is this real?’: House of the Dragon’s two newest stars freak out

  • ‘You’re really just trying to get that potato for your grandma’s soup’ … a screenshot from Sopa.

    Games
    A recipe for magical realism: Gabriel García Márquez and a video game about potatoes

Talking points

People

The big picture

  • A 1967 Fiat 124 with William Batchelor House, in Coventry, a 1969 Peugeot 504 with Preston Bus Station and a 1977 Rover SD1 at the Sports and Recreation Centre, Coventry.

    Cars paired with buildings of the same vintage – in pictures

    A photographer and an architect demonstrate how bricks and mortar have survived all those Fiats and Rovers

Reviews

  • A man and a woman hold onto a ladder and each other as they scale the side of a building

    Film
    Skywalkers: A Love Story – ‘rooftopping’ couple chase thrills in Netflix documentary

  • Frederick Douglass.

    Books
    The History of Ideas by David Runciman – big thinkers with visions of a better world

    • The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour<br>LOS ANGELES - OCTOBER 1: Little Richard appears on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour. Image dated October 1, 1971. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

      Books
      The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Resistance Shaped Popular Culture (1955–1979) by Jon Savage – pop’s coming out period

    • A handcuffed Brittney Griner is escorted from court near Moscow by Russian guards on 4 August 2022.

      Books
      Coming Home by Brittney Griner – from hoop dreams to a living hell

    • gangway going out to a semicircular building and the sea

      Games
      Riven – ponderous yet powerful remake of the 90s island classic

Loads more stories and moves focus to first new story.

Pictures & video

  • Untitled, from the series The British Isles , 2007-2020, Jamie Hawkesworth (c) Jamie Hawkesworth, image courtesy Huxley-Parlour, London(6)

    Photography
    ‘You never know what you’ll bump into’: a wander around Britain – in pictures

    For over a decade Jamie Hawkesworth hopped on trains to random parts of the country to photograph people and places. These unique portraits tell his story
  • First Love by Lifu Hu on show at KLIP

    Photography
    Joy, trauma and identity: themes from Kuala Lumpur’s photography awards

  • Men in red military uniform and a goat stand to attention

    Photos of the day
    Desert blooms, Romanian blouses and Mr Afghanistan

  • Art and design
    ‘I celebrate the human condition’: Louis Stettner’s real lives

  • Photography
    Latin American Foto festival

  • Photography
    On the road with a 1960s biker gang

  • Art and design
    Tokyo’s oldest train line – in pictures

  • Royal Shakespeare Company
    No rest for the wicked: The School for Scandal at the RSC – in pictures

  • NHS
    ‘We all need a place to hide’: hospital workers take a breather

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