Laura Kelly
Laura Kelly is a multimedia journalist, award-winning columnist and podcaster with a longstanding passion for The Big Issue's social mission. She is the Culture Editor of The Big Issue, and leads the Venue Watch campaign to champion grassroots music venues.
Asteroid City is a perfectly timed meditation on grief
Scarlett Johansson in director Wes Anderson's Asteroid City
analysis

Asteroid City is a perfectly timed meditation on grief

Banksy: Cut & Run is the closest we’ve come to seeing behind his mask
Banksy Cut & Run
review

Banksy: Cut & Run is the closest we’ve come to seeing behind his mask

The UK’s best independent bookshops
Best independent bookshops
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The UK’s best independent bookshops

Glenda Jackson defied expectations to succeed in acting and politics
Glenda Jackson
obituary

Glenda Jackson defied expectations to succeed in acting and politics

Rocky Horror at 50: 'A place for the marginalised'
Nell Campbell, Patricia Quinn, Tim Curry and Richard O’Brien in the 1975 movie adaptation. Image: Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photo
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Rocky Horror at 50: 'A place for the marginalised'

Alma Singer: 'Art can challenge what's going on in the world'
Carla Nizzola, aka Alma Singer
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Alma Singer: 'Art can challenge what's going on in the world'

First western band to play war-torn Ukraine The Tiger Lillies say it’s their ‘duty’
Martyn Jacques of The Tiger Lillies in his stage makeup
protest music

First western band to play war-torn Ukraine The Tiger Lillies say it’s their ‘duty’

Sophie Ellis-Bextor: Kitchen disco heroine challenges what it means to be a working mum
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Interview

Sophie Ellis-Bextor: Kitchen disco heroine challenges what it means to be a working mum

‘There’s no rules’: Le Tigre bring feminist protest back to the dancefloor
Feminist electroclash band Le Tigre (l-r Kathleen Hanna, JD Samson, Johanna Fateman) in 2004
Interview

‘There’s no rules’: Le Tigre bring feminist protest back to the dancefloor

Sparks: People think we're weird. We’ve never felt that
Sparks: Russell and Ron Mael
Interview

Sparks: People think we're weird. We’ve never felt that

Jim Moir, Nancy Sorrell, Chris Packham and the fine art of birdwatching
conservation

Jim Moir, Nancy Sorrell, Chris Packham and the fine art of birdwatching

Noel Gallagher: Oasis wouldn’t be anything if Liam hadn’t asked me to join
Oasis in 1994: (l-r) Tony McCarroll, Paul ‘Bonehead’ Arthurs, Noel Gallagher, Liam Gallagher, Paul ‘Guigsy’ McGuigan.
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Noel Gallagher: Oasis wouldn’t be anything if Liam hadn’t asked me to join