Category: 5. Entertainment

You know the memes: Hiking sneakers that have never seen anything gnarlier that a cement pothole. Crags? What are those again? It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly gorpcore sneakers infiltrated the everyday fashion uniform, but they’re…

On 1 January 1968, viewers of the TV soap opera Coronation Street experienced a mild culture shock as a clump of hippies decked out in floral shirts, Afghan coats and John Lennon spectacles temporarily took over the house at No 11, former home to…

The 99-year-old St. James Theater in New York has been home to some of the most indelible Broadway productions ever, from Oklahoma! to Hello, Dolly! to Nicole Scherzinger’s blood-spattered turn in Sunset Boulevard last season. But the storied…

Prosecutors in Utah have declined to press charges against Taylor Frankie Paul, star of the reality show The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, after she was accused of domestic violence.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Salt Lake county district…

An idiot wandering the British Isles is sure to be greeted with a colourful volley of insults, each a signifier of the place in which he finds himself: “divvy” in Merseyside, “pillock” in Leeds or “dinlo” in Portsmouth.

But with…

Vivienne Westwood has teamed with the English shoemaker George Cox to mark the 75th anniversary of the latter’s famous brother creeper, the thick-soled shoe worn by punks, teddy boys and other youthful rebels over the years.   

The…

The invite to The Cove Eleuthera arrived in a grief-filled, Gen X wrinkle of time when my anxiety was at an all-time high. I’d just dropped my only child at college, then dashed to the bedside of my elderly and increasingly cantankerous father….

My photograph appeared in your article on the aftermath of Storm Goretti (‘It has been traumatic’: the Cornwall landmark left battered by Storm Goretti, 3 April), and now I have an extraordinary tale to tell.

Within a day or so of the…

Moya Brennan’s voice was an unusual instrument to arrive in the Top 20 in November 1982, especially on a Top of the Pops episode featuring the very different delights of A Flock of Seagulls, Eddy Grant and one-hit wonders Blue Zoo. As light as…