O n April 20, the great, the good and the simply stratospherically wealthy of the international art world will descend on Venice for the city’s 59th art biennale. Chances are, however, that Pavlo Makov, the artist chosen to represent Ukraine at this year’s event, will not be there. Nobody knowsContinue Reading
Review at a glance A petite blonde woman – lips ringed in postbox red lipstick – stands on a table in front of a rapt crowd, telling a story about an uncle who liked crosswords, who taught her to play football in his yard, who died of an incurable cancer.Continue Reading
T he Peaky Blinders are back – and Steven Knight’s tale of Brummie gangster life in the inter-war period looks set to reach a blood-soaked crescendo in the BBC drama’s sixth series, which marks the final chapter for the disturbingly dysfunctional Shelby family. After season five’s dramatic conclusion, the questionContinue Reading
Review at a glance I t’s hard to think of Avril Lavigne as an elder stateswoman of pop-punk when she looks almost exactly the same on the cover of her seventh album, at 37, as she did on her 20 year-old debut album, Let Go. This time, she sounds theContinue Reading
FromSoftware has reinvented Dark Souls in an open world, and the result is a triumph.Continue Reading
Review at a glance H ow can you not love a show that begins with one of its stars downing a shot from a menstrual cup? This cabaret-inspired celebration of queer Caribbean women is fearlessly its own thing, and all the more enjoyable for it. Written and directed by EmilyContinue Reading
Review at a glance T he Surrealists always made dramatic statements. “Our Surrealism will enable us finally to transcend the sordid antinomies of the present… Surrealism – the tightrope of our hope.” This was written in 1943, when the present was sordid indeed. But its author is not one of theContinue Reading
A star-studded line-up of musicians and comedians for the week of entertainment as the annual gig gears up to return after a two-year pandemic hiatus. The delayed 20th anniversary will take place next month at the historic venue with acts like The Who headlining. Roger Daltrey, 77, will play anContinue Reading
Review at a glance V illanelle has found God. Of all the plot twists Killing Eve, now in its fourth and final series, could have thrown at us, this is one we didn’t see coming – that everyone’s favourite deadpan, dead-inside and dressed to kill psychopath (played by Jodie Comer)Continue Reading
The Exmouth Shanty Men are about to release a new double album, featuring songs from their unique two part stage show “Tall Ships and Tavern Tales”. The show, described as a voyage in song from the high seas to a dockside ale house, features both traditional sea shanties from theContinue Reading
