Recent developments in Bolivia are absent from a film whose background is the 'water wars'
Exuberant times with Grimes at the Social
It's hard to empathise with the dysfunctional couples in a new play set in suburban Chicago because they're too one-dimensional
Subtle twists in novel of cold war ambiguities
The church has pinned its colours to the mast - and they appear to be that of money
Last autumn I was in New York on the day that Steve Jobs died.
There's really no point expending energy or thought criticising the Brit Awards on ITV1 the other night, because everyone involved and everyone watching knew immediately that it was a vapid, soulless and above all boring celebration of money and celebrity ahead of music. But read on.
People are fighting tooth and nail to save British arts funding. Often locally with no thanks, they're doing fantastic things with little arts establishment support, including from within some of the organisations that are most at threat.
One of the best projects of the inaugural Brighton Digital Festival, which ran throughout September, was the placing of high-quality geek speakers into local schools.
Have our musicians lost interest in society completely?
Chris T-T asks if marketing killing our ability to judge reality
I guess when Tracey Emin ramped up her "poor little rich girl" anti-tax whining routine a few years ago, some folks were probably quite pleased because they already hated her work, so being able to tag her a greedy right-winger was an added bonus.
Only three or four years ago I’d become very cynical about radical, progressive or socially conscious live music and cultural events here in Britain.