Category : Culture

On my radar: Katherine Ryan’s cultural highlights

The comedian on her favourite new painter, the downfall of Diddy, and wanting to save Britney SpearsBorn in Ontario, Canada in 1983, comedian Katherine Ryan won the Funny Women award in 2008. Since then she has appeared on numerous TV sitcoms and pan...

Lana Del Rey at Coachella review – a disappointingly lifeless start to the festival

Empire Polo Club, Indio, CaliforniaThis year starts off on a bum note with the singer’s downbeat energy and underpowered vocals proving to be a buzzkill while even special guest Billie Eilish couldn’t save the dayThe cliche image of Lana Del Rey – fl...

Big Zuu: ‘Music and cooking make me feel euphoric’

The rapper and presenter, 28, on coming from a massive family, avoiding Tinder and why winning a Bafta made him want to cryLiving in temporary housing as a kid gave me character and hunger. We moved all over London: Victoria, Battersea, Swiss Cottage...

Romy review – a masterclass in bittersweet feeling

Roundhouse, LondonShowcasing her debut solo album, last year’s Mid Air, the xx frontwoman escapes the elegant restraint of her band with a set full of euphoric rhythms and unambiguous hymns to her wifeRomy Madley Croft, sometimes of the band the xx,...

The photographer who captured Black San Francisco in the 1960s: ‘We wouldn’t have seen it without him’

Chronicler of San Francisco’s now-vanished Fillmore district who studied under Ansel Adams turned his lens on his peopleDavid Johnson saved a portrait he took as a teen of his younger brother and a relative while they were growing up in segregated Fl...

Art unlocked: critics on the one work that explains the great artists, from Turner to Basquiat

Expressionism, sculpture, video: the art world is so vast and varied it can be difficult to know where to start, even with its biggest names. Our writers suggest the one piece that can help you understand masters old and newOn 26 April 1937 the Basqu...

Trump derailed Oval Office China talks with Stormy Daniels rant, book says

Then AT&T chief Randall Stephenson says president spent most of meeting about Beijing and tech on diatribe about women and sexDonald Trump has made antipathy to China a cornerstone of his campaign to return to the White House next year, but accor...

Varada Sethu to join Doctor Who in role as second companion

Actor in Disney+ series Andor will appear onscreen alongside Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson next yearVarada Sethu will join Doctor Who as one of the Doctor’s two companions for Ncuti Gatwa’s second series in the role, it has been confirmed.She will ap...

Comedian Munya Chawawa: ‘I want to be the Swiss army knife of TV shows – I’m up for all of it’

The comedian on his rise from lockdown sensation to double Bafta nominee, approval from Stormzy and splitting apples with his bare handsMunya Chawawa is a 31-year-old comedian whose satirical online videos made him a lockdown sensation. Viral hits in...

Poet Jackie Kay: ‘I could have been brought up by Tories!’

The writer, who was adopted as a baby by Scottish communists, on her life in protest, facing racism in suburban Glasgow, and why her late parents are at the heart of her new collectionThe Scottish poet and& writer Jackie Kay is listening to Jazz Reco...

How to Make a Bomb by Rupert Thomson review – a stark study of male rage

The destructive desires of an inoffensive family man drive this subversive satire of existentialism For Jean-Paul Sartre’s protagonist in Nausea, it was a stone on the& beach that prompted overwhelming abhorrence at the nature of existence. For Ruper...

Eleanor Coppola, Emmy award winning director, dies aged 87

Coppola known for Hearts of Darkness, film chronicling tortured production of husband Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse NowEleanor Coppola, the Emmy award-winning director, artist and writer, died Friday at her home in Rutherford, California, her fam...

Jess Ribeiro: Summer of Love review – a balm for anxious times

With expansive, experimental instrumentation, the Melbourne musician’s fourth album records our contemporary chaos – and finds a glimmer of hopeGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailJess Ribeiro has range. Over the last decade, the Melbourne sin...

Joe Lycett discloses four fake stories he planted in UK media

Stories include man with bruise in shape of Prince Harry and statue of H from Steps being erected in WalesThe comedian Joe Lycett has disclosed the fake stories that he successfully planted in the British media over the past month included a man with...

Challengers review – Zendaya aces uproariously sexy tennis-set love triangle

Luca Guadagnino’s terrifically absorbing screwball dramedy features a devastatingly cool leading lady, Josh O’Connor on rallying form and zinging extended dialogue rallies to matchIt’s almost too good to be true. Could cinema be witnessing the birth...