Category: 5. Entertainment

Nate Ruess always dreamed about deafening, distorted guitars. So, in early 2023, he went out and bought a Gibson SG and began writing capital-R rock songs.

Never mind that he’d largely opted out of the music business seven years before….

The trend: One year into the second Trump administration, political pressure is increasingly shaping how media companies operate and how advertisers assess risk. Regulatory signals and political alignment are influencing programming stability,…

Publishers Weekly recently named several Penguin Random House authors to its Spring 2026 Writers to Watch…

A portrait of Robert Burns by Henry Raeburn, which was lost for more than 200 years, has been put on public display for the first time at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. The exhibiting of the work is just in time for Burns Night…

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The Bulgarian cellist Maria Mircheva died on 15 January 2026, aged 82. Mircheva was a principal and soloist with the Valencia Orchestra in Spain, leaving a lasting legacy with the Valencian musical…

Mercy is now playing in theatres!

Set in the near future, Mercy is a thrilling story about a detective on trial accused of murdering his wife. He has 90 minutes to prove his innocence to the advanced A.I. Judge – or face execution!

We had a great…

Exhibition of the week

Jessica Rankin
This New York artist’s abstract works hover between embroidery and painting and have a seductive, lyrical beauty.
White Cube Mason’s Yard, London, 28 January to 28 February

Also showing

Andy Warhol
The artist…

Ramsgate, Kent

Why did Caesar, Saint Augustine, Hengist and Horsa make Ramsgate their first port of call on assorted crusading trips to England? Proximity to France? Easy landing beaches beneath the cliffs? The lively arts scene?

Probably –…

My friend Derek Morris, who has died aged 85, taught sculpture at Norwich School of Art (now the Norwich University of the Arts) for a quarter of a century up to his retirement in 1990.

He became the sculpture course leader there in 1971, after…