Arts

ANDY CROFT wonders why the world seems overly preoccupied with the private life of Graham Greene, when the focus should be on his novels.

CHRIS SEARLE checks out two and a half hours of truly cosmic music on Charles Lloyd and Billy Higgins's Which Way is East and the John Abercrombie Quartet's extraordinary expression of individual musical genius.

IN FOCUS: KARL DALLAS discusses the films which were true to author Graham Greene's original novels.

OPERA: KARL DALLAS welcomes Opera North's fresh look at Puccini's Manon, but is wary of Daniel Slater's confusing direction.

PUBLICATION: Che's image is ubiquitous. A resourceful street artist in Barcelona even makes a living from tourists by posing as a living statue of the Argentinian revolutionary - cigar clenched in his teeth, legs astride, clad in battle fatigues and black beret, writes NICK WRIGHT.

IN FOCUS: JOE FOLEY looks at the work which goes into the hugely successful Peace Not War CD, which raises money for grassroots peace groups.

JAZZ: CHRIS SEARLE checks out McCoy Tyner's latest offering Illuminations, tenor saxophonist Benny Golson's new album Terminal One and Benny Green and Russell Malone amalgam of jazz surprises Bluebird.

OPERA: KARL DALLAS reviews a problematic production of Gluck's landmark opera Orfeo ed Euridice at the Grand Theatre, Leeds.

EXHIBITION: Putting together an exhibition that aims to cover ancient art to post-impressionism is a challenging, ambitious and rather daunting task, writes ALEX HOLROYD.

BOOK: ANDY CROFT follows the life, passions and poetry of great Chilean poet and ambassador Pablo Neruda in Adam Feinstein's biography.