Category: 5. Entertainment

Sophie Ellis-Bextor and The Proclaimers are to headline a Surrey music festival in 2026.

Organisers of GuilFest said Rudimental, Kula Shaker and The Lottery Winners are also on the line-up for the festival, which will return to Stoke Park,…

Earlier this year, we launched a range of tiny cocktails in collaboration with drinks writer Tyler Zielinski to reimagine Italian classics in miniature form, all designed to serve as light, pre-dinner tipples. This one’s suitably red, to go…

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Microdramas Reach Europe

Joel Edgerton is frequently called “underrated.” But he reminds us that he’s been “here all along.”

Joel Edgerton is ready to punch his awards season ticket.

Musicians including Neneh Cherry, Nadine Shah, Celeste, Mabel, Leigh-Anne and Brian Eno have joined the bid for the Christmas No 1 spot with a single to raise funds for Palestinian-led organisations.

Lullaby, a reimagining of the traditional…

From Los Angeles
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After several years of perseverance, things are happening for…

Exhibition of the week

Monument to the Unimportant
With the birth of modernism, artists turned their gaze from the heroic to the “unimportant”. This attention to the everyday continues, as Rachel Whiteread, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Gober and…

HYDERABAD, India — A fast-rising parallel film industry in India is competing with Bollywood’s musicals and action-packed films and has taken the world by storm: It’s called Tollywood.

As Mumbai is to Hindi films — or Bollywood — the…