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From poignant farewells to adorable cuddly toy monkeys, these are the televisual finales that turn Guardian readers into puddles of joy A missing monkey, a token tennis bracelet, and the end of the Korean war! These are the most uplifting and moving finales in TV history, according to Guardian readers. Warning, spoilers lie ahead. Continue reading...
Foundayo is made by Eli Lilly, the drug firm behind the Mounjaro jab.
Actor with a long career that included Joe Orton’s Loot, an Alan Ayckbourn trilogy and seasons at the Old Vic and the National When Sheila Ballantine was offered a role in Kenneth Tynan’s 1970 erotic revue, Oh! Calcutta!, she averred that “I don’t mind being naked on stage, but I draw the line at being naked with bad material.” In her significant, wide-ranging stage career, Ballantine, who has…
Game developer David Ashby and Aunty Donna’s Broden Kelly talk about their chaotic and silly sport game – involving meat pies with legs and Ford Falcons on the oval Try explaining Australian rules football to anyone outside Australia and “it sounds like you’re making it up”, says David Ashby, the multi-hyphenate comedic mind behind deeply silly spoofs such as Italian Spider-Man and Danger 5.…
Speaking just before his death, the actor recalled his hostile hunting dog Zag, director Taika Waititi’s comedy genius – and the wild boar scene that left children traumatised • Warning: contains spoilers Taika Waititi’s film Boy is one of my favourites ever, so when I got the Wilderpeople script I was already well disposed to it. Hec is sort of a New Zealand archetype. When I was at university,…
Regulator acts after 12,000 complaints over comments by Caroline Farrow linking parades with bestiality and paedophilia GB News is being investigated by the UK’s media regulator after a guest appeared to link pride parades with bestiality and paedophilia. The remarks are thought to have set a new record for individual complaints about a GB News programme, with more than 12,000 people raising…
Summer is the worst season of all, and also the most beautiful.
Police cameras can help make the criminal-justice system both fairer and less punitive—if we let them.
The New Orleans native is a three-time Grammy winner at the top of his game – and is now using his instinctive style to celebrate the resilience and clarity of Katrina survivors ‘Black music is forward and upward in movement, you know? Never forward or upward,” pianist Sullivan Fortner declares. “It’s a tornado that’s always getting bigger and moving faster,” he adds, whizzing his fingers around…
For The Atlantic ’s September cover story, staff writer Tyler Austin Harper writes about how he came to lose faith in academia, chronicling his recent career as a professor and his decision to leave his tenure-track position after five years at Bates College in Maine. “I saw clearly now what should have been obvious all along. Bates was not a good place to work, nor a moral one. And the problem…
Old Royal Naval College, London Playing their biggest headlining gig to date, the Russell brothers are in a bouncy mood, though their grandstanding rave melodies lose some punch in an outdoor environment In the age of shortform video supremacy, there has been a great deal of angst about the authentic club music experience being rendered a vapid spectacle. Stop expecting DJs to be social media…
From the last days of the Titanic to desperate romantics, we rate the work of a British master of black comedy Bainbridge’s novel of the last days on RMS Titanic was acclaimed and popular (“They probably thought it was the book of the film,” she said), and the scenes of the sinking are brilliantly delivered. “There is about me an element of showmanship,” says one character, but Bainbridge’s own…
The Roku Originals documentary, “Gamechangers: Mother/Athlete,” made its world premiere at the 24th annual Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival (MVAAFF) on Sunday afternoon. The intimat…
VarietyThe Dave Matthews Band has announced its 2026 Fall Tour, which will kick off on November 4 at Kohl Center in Madison, WI. The U.S. headline run will include shows at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, …
VarietyFast-rising star Jessica Reynolds (“Kneecap,” “A Woman of Substance”) and Oscar-nominated screen icon Charlotte Rampling (“45 Years,” “Under the Sand”) are teaming up for Irish psychological drama …
VarietyMusic streaming platform creates ‘AI persona’ label that will appear on profiles and track listings in crackdown on fake performers Spotify is to label AI artists and exclude them from algorithm re…
The Guardian CultureMari, Ari Emanuel’s global events and experiences company, has agreed to acquire U.K.-based theater giant ATG Entertainment from Providence Equity Partners in a multibillion-dollar deal. ATG operat…
VarietyNetflix has officially set the release date for “The Body,” which draws inspiration from ‘90s and Y2K teen movies such as “Carrie” and “Jennifer’s Body.” Created by Quinn Shephard, a group of unhol…
VarietyFamily fallouts, failing marriages, sunburn, food poisoning ... from Deborah Levy’s hypnotic and disturbing Hot Milk to All In, Claire Powell’s all-inclusive nightmare, Leon Craig looks at the best…
The Guardian CultureBritish singer-songwriter and pop diva Marina (formerly Marina and the Diamonds) has signed with United Talent Agency for global representation in all areas, encompassing touring, media, filmed ent…
VarietyMaria Fernanda Cândido, the veteran Brazilian actor who rose to major international projection last year thanks to a key role in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Oscar-nominated “The Secret Agent,” is set t…
VarietyRoyal Albert Hall, London Esa-Pekka Salonen led an orchestra of players from London’s Royal Academy of Music and New York’s Juilliard School through 20th-century classics with Vilde Frang the elect…
The Guardian CultureRosario Dawson has revealed that she filmed a cameo in “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” but it “got cut out.” In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Dawson plays Claire Temple, a nurse who treats injured su…
VarietyDavid Ellison is eager to reach a swift resolution in the antitrust case filed by 12 states seeking to block the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. And, in a move seemingly aimed at gaining l…
VarietyAndrius Blaževičius’ “How to Divorce During the War” has been selected as Lithuania’s entry for the Academy Award for best international feature film. Blaževičius’ third feature won the directing a…
VarietyTwo likely lads in their 20s deal with problematic lives that dramatically intersect in this persuasive London drama This gritty crime drama unfolds entirely within the Punjabi community in London’…
The Guardian CultureChang-rae Lee’s new novel examines a young man’s attempt to be tough—and its far-reaching consequences.
The AtlanticThe designer defined the glory days of 90s style with a wit that made him every supermodel’s best friend. As he gears up for a new cabaret show, he’s as outspoken as ever There’s a lot to look at i…
The Guardian CultureUnderbelly Bristo Square, Edinburgh There is crackling chemistry between Zofia Zerphy and Rhiannon Bell while their washing gets done but this play remains a puzzle Names go missing like lost socks…
The Guardian CultureTomorrow’s eclipse will be the country’s first in a century. Next year’s will be even more dramatic.
The AtlanticWhether dads do their fair share of the housework appears to have no effect on fertility.
The AtlanticFebruary 2045 I took longer than some people to start calling it the war. And by some people, I mainly mean my husband, Asher. “This is it, Natalie,” he said to me that first Friday, back in June 2…
The AtlanticKevin Dowdell, a lieutenant in an elite FDNY rescue unit, taught his sons to take action. When he disappeared on 9/11, they went to Ground Zero to search for him.
The AtlanticIn his new novel, gay men struggle to escape violence in Kingston.
The AtlanticReaders respond to our May 2026 issue.
The AtlanticThis fascinating, eccentric book becomes a quirky primer on Peruvian music and culture When I Give You My Silence was published in Spanish in 2023 its author, the Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Varg…
The Guardian CultureThis new adaptation of Michael Ende’s 1973 novel contains some neat parables for our digitally nihilistic age, but even a mystical tortoise can’t save it it from monotony Momo – the 1973 fantasy no…
The Guardian CultureRepublicans have no incentive to let them forget past excesses.
The AtlanticGilded Balloon Teviot, Edinburgh With charisma and craft, the Australian standup discusses childhood sexual abuse in a show with a healing quality If fringe audiences know Frankie McNair’s work at …
The Guardian CultureWhat do you do when you return to your home town, with your dead mother in your car boot, to find the inhabitants have been turned into robots? In the boot of her car, Pratelle carries the corpse o…
The Guardian CulturePlus, how much do people really change their habits for a free coffee?
BBC HealthEngland is on track to become one of the first countries in the world to eliminate hepatitis C, a dangerous virus that attacks the liver, figures show.
BBC HealthFrom Fonzie to Elvis to the Daleks, from a Mini Milk to a Seaside Saucy to a Freak Out, incredibly rare vintage ice lolly wrappers have now been memorialised in a 96-page, nostalgia-inducing deligh…
The Guardian CultureThe most complex of female relationships is thrown into sharp relief in this moving series of essays Rachel Aviv has a profound interest in the vagaries of human psychology: Strangers to Ourselves,…
The Guardian CultureSan Francisco’s pop-punk pioneers Green Day loom large in this fun, puppyish film about a scrappy band desperate to meet their idols Inspired by their own youthful rowdy escapades – “our early days…
The Guardian CultureFootball manager José Mourinho stars in a three-parter from the creators of Bros: After the Screaming Stops. Don’t expect it to be quite so entertaining… Among his previous credits, the director of…
The Guardian CultureSummerhall, Edinburgh Gregory Nussen spins Italo Calvino’s surrealist authorial intrusions into a fascinating, playful and political show How to adapt an unadaptable novel famed for its postmodern …
The Guardian CultureNow on its 167th edition, the Royal Photographic Society’s annual show features moving explorations of kinks, visual disorders … and long-snouted clowns Continue reading...
The Guardian CultureThe Mad King may bring more dynastic disputes and dotty despots to the RSC – but a ‘mayhap’ or a riddling aphorism does not a Shakespeare play make As a latecomer to Game of Thrones, I am struck by…
The Guardian CultureBitter Christmas, Late Fame and The Christophers all depict geniuses aware of their waning acclaim and terrified it will end Entertainment culture is so preoccupied with nowness that last month we …
The Guardian CultureWith its marching bands, billowing flags and precision drills, the Tattoo has never exactly been cutting edge. But now an experimental theatre-maker has been let loose on it … Dusk has settled on E…
The Guardian CultureGilded Balloon Teviot, Edinburgh Performer cleared of death of her roommate in Italy uses new motherhood as framework for her defiant comedy show ‘Welcome to the most controversial show on the frin…
The Guardian CultureSome institutions jumped onto the MAGA bandwagon after the 2024 election, but it hasn’t taken long for those decisions to look shortsighted.
The AtlanticPleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh With the air of a hungover postmortem, Richardson gives a head-spinning account of an encounter with an older comedian If you’re partial to a bit of gossip and scanda…
The Guardian CultureProsecutors allege Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis ordered killing and provided gun in Las Vegas drive-by shooting 30 years ago Jury selection began on Monday in Las Vegas as the murder trial of a former gan…
The Guardian CultureThe former US president will host six episodes of A Great Book for Audible, discussing work from Toni Morrison and John le Carré to James Baldwin Barack Obama is set to host a podcast about books t…
The Guardian CultureWhile Europe braces for yet another heat wave, prolonged drought conditions have dropped inland waterways to record-setting low levels, exposing long-submerged shipwrecks and affecting navigation.
The AtlanticWhy Jeff Flake still believes the spell over his party will break
The AtlanticFestival theatre, Edinburgh Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s new music theatre work boasts a richly textured score with a direct but sophisticated musical language. Daniela Mack is ideal as the con…
The Guardian CultureTenebrae, Nigel Short / Anu Komsi and Sakari Oramo St George’s Bristol / Bristol Beacon Sunday afternoon’s two concerts, closing the Proms’ Bristol weekend, brought the superlative Tenebrae, and Sa…
The Guardian CultureFrom poignant farewells to adorable cuddly toy monkeys, these are the televisual finales that turn Guardian readers into puddles of joy A missing monkey, a token tennis bracelet, and the end of the…
The Guardian CultureFoundayo is made by Eli Lilly, the drug firm behind the Mounjaro jab.
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