π Asteroid City review β Wes Andersonβs 1950s sci-fi is an exhilarating triumph of pure style
π Asteroid City review β Wes Andersonβs 1950s sci-fi is an exhilarating triumph of pure style
π Manic Street Preachers: The band feels like something you can go into battle with against the world
As they release their 15th album, the Manic Street Preachers are as fired up as ever. They talk about tech bros, stealing hotel shampoo and four decades of combining friendship with being in a band
π βI have just bought my first gunβ: the war diary of late Ukrainian novelist Victoria Amelina
π Luca is the progenitor of all life on Earth. But its genesis has implications far beyond our planet
Luca β short for the last universal common ancestor, the progenitor of all known life on Earth β seems to have been born 4.2bn years ago.
π Phish: Tiny Desk Concert π΅
π I’m intrigued by failure: Kim Deal on death, addiction and releasing her debut solo album at 63
Love, death, grief, power, revenge: Greek tragedies get to the essence of the human experience. Here, writers and artists select their favourite plays, music and films inspired by the classics, from The Hunger Games to a Santana hit
π Blade Runner 2049 review - a future classic
The sequel to Ridley Scottβs 1982 classic manages to be both visually stunning and philosophically profound
π Identity of casts of victims at Pompeii not all they seem, research suggests
Ancient DNA challenges prevailing interpretations of the Pompeii plaster casts
π The Cure: Songs of a Lost World review β as promised, βvery, very doom and gloomβ
The bandβs first album in 16 years finds Robert Smith and co on reliably melancholy form
π The Cure: Songs of a Lost World review β dark, personal and their best since Disintegration
The band are at an artistic peak on their first album in 16 years: movingly melancholic, with a punchy sound to match the lyricsβ emotional impact
π John Keats statue to be unveiled near his birthplace in Londonβs Moorgate
Martin Jennings β whose previous public sculptures include John Betjeman, George Orwell and Philip Larkin β has based his bronze on a life cast of the poet, taken when he was 21
π Talking Heads with Adrian Belew Live Dortmund 1980. YouTube π΅