Category: 5. Entertainment

As one half of Brooklyn-based duo Water From Your Eyes, Nate Amos makes left-field pop that feels hypermodern: wry, memey lyricism; post-ironic genre-hopping; the kind of jilted chaos and tonal jumble that characterises a social media feed. Yet…

Terry Gilliam: ‘He was an absolute magnet and his parties were joyous’

I was utterly knocked out by the way Tom Stoppard’s mind worked, his brilliance and by the fact he made Brazil out of a big lump of stone that I’d spent a year or two…

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Simon Cowell: The Next Act

With his stubble, his shades and his belief in the eternal power of the choreographed quintet, Simon Cowell is resolutely unchanging. But has the world changed around him? As an assistant bravely points…

The ascent and descent depicted in Richard Strauss’s An Alpine Symphony can seem like a long slog, but not in the bracing new recording from the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Nicholas Collon’s conducting keeps the sound clean and the pace…

While the fashion world recognises Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo as the architects of seismic cultural shifts through their groundbreaking designs, my perspective comes from a more intimate vantage point, having had the privilege of…