Category: 5. Entertainment

There’s a moment when I’m interviewing Vybz Kartel in the courtyard of the Four Seasons hotel in Tower Bridge, London, and the UK government emergency alert test rings on my phone. He is panicked by it and jumps up. “Me ready fi run you…

Christy Martin has publicly defended Sydney Sweeney…

Exhibition of the week

Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas
These two very different artists became friends after meeting at the Colony Room (where else?) and now show together in an encounter of British art generations.
Sadie Coles HQ, London, 20…

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Fiddle player Kate Gregory and cellist Brendan Hearn bring an inventive energy to traditional music. Drawing on American Old Time, Irish and other folk traditions, the…

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Violinist Ray Ushikubo has been loaned the 1741 ‘Playfair’ Guarneri ‘del Gesù’ violin.

Ushikubo, 24, described receiving the violin as ’an extraordinary honour’.

‘To be entrusted with an instrument…

Before FKA Twigs could discuss her upcoming album, “Afterglow,” she needed a matcha.

The British singer-songwriter had first answered a Zoom call from the backseat of a dimly lit car in New York, where she confessed to running on “2%…

More than a decade ago, Tinder became the hottest dating app, transforming modern romance by making it possible for singles to swipe through people’s profiles, match and meet up.

Now, Tinder is fighting to keep the flame alive. Sometimes in…

One of the more striking stories to come out of the art world lately is that of Bettina Grossman, an avant-garde artist whose vast archive of photographs, sculptures, film, and paintings is only just coming to light. Bettina (she preferred the…