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Top 5 books to inspire you to write poetry, selected by The Poetry Pharmacy's Deborah Alma
A notebook, a pen and a cup of coffee
poetry

Top 5 books to inspire you to write poetry, selected by The Poetry Pharmacy's Deborah Alma

Why renowned conductor John Eliot Gardiner has drawn comparisons with Lydia Tár
Classical music

Why renowned conductor John Eliot Gardiner has drawn comparisons with Lydia Tár

What Scorsese epic Killers of the Flower Moon means to an Indigenous street paper vendor
A woman in a green top holding a pot plant against a yellow background
Vendors

What Scorsese epic Killers of the Flower Moon means to an Indigenous street paper vendor

Slade star Noddy Holder breaks silence after throat cancer diagnosis: 'I kept it very low key'
Noddy Holder waving
Exclusive

Slade star Noddy Holder breaks silence after throat cancer diagnosis: 'I kept it very low key'

Stop Making Sense review – a once in a lifetime Talking Heads show
The Talking Heads line-up for the concert film 'Stop Making Sense' (L-R Steve Scales, Bernie Worrell, Jerry Harrison, Ednah Holt, David Byrne, Lynn Mabry, Tina Wemouth, Chris Frantz and Alex Weir)
Music

Stop Making Sense review – a once in a lifetime Talking Heads show

This Scottish music venue changed a disabled teen's life – but may run out of money in months
woman playing a keyboard and singing, MacArts centre, man in a hat at a microphone
venue watch

This Scottish music venue changed a disabled teen's life – but may run out of money in months

Rock Hudson: How an Aids diagnosis saw the closeted Hollywood icon finally accepted
Rock Hudson and Lee Garlington
LGBTQ+ history

Rock Hudson: How an Aids diagnosis saw the closeted Hollywood icon finally accepted

The Great Amazon Heist: New doc exposes inconvenient truths about world’s biggest online retailer
Documentary maker Oobah Butler in Channel 4's The Great Amazon Heist.
Documentary

The Great Amazon Heist: New doc exposes inconvenient truths about world’s biggest online retailer

Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford review – a rich detective noir
Cahokia Jazz cover
Review

Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford review – a rich detective noir

'Love is the fing': IDLES frontman Joe Talbot on what's at the heart of new album TANGK
Joe Talbot

'Love is the fing': IDLES frontman Joe Talbot on what's at the heart of new album TANGK

Greed, betrayal and exploitation: The cruel true story behind Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon
Scorsese, with DiCaprio, Gladstone and De Niro
Film

Greed, betrayal and exploitation: The cruel true story behind Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon

Steve Lamacq: 'This music venue changed my life... it's now a carpark'
Venue Watch

Steve Lamacq: 'This music venue changed my life... it's now a carpark'

Joshua Luke Smith: Meet the rapper helping prisoners process their past through poetry
rapper/ joshua luke smith
Music

Joshua Luke Smith: Meet the rapper helping prisoners process their past through poetry

Cost of living crisis stopping people accessing mental health benefits of live music
Ed Sheeran performs for Channel Seven's morning program Sunrise and Nova969 in Sydney 2013. He voiced his support for the new initiative which will give money to grassroots live music venues.
Venue Watch

Cost of living crisis stopping people accessing mental health benefits of live music

Soul II Soul's Jazzie B: 'By 16, I had already been stopped by the police 10 times'
Jazzie B from Soul II Soul
Race

Soul II Soul's Jazzie B: 'By 16, I had already been stopped by the police 10 times'

Adrian Edmondson on family, fatherhood and break-up with late comedy legend Rik Mayall
Adrian Edmondson
Letter to my younger self

Adrian Edmondson on family, fatherhood and break-up with late comedy legend Rik Mayall

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
How a life-long obsession with lighthouses led to a book of beauty and adventure
An illustration of a white lighthouse and the blue sea
Books

How a life-long obsession with lighthouses led to a book of beauty and adventure

From Queer as Folk to Doctor Who: How Russell T Davies gave voice to a generation of queer people
Illustration of tardis on a television
TV

From Queer as Folk to Doctor Who: How Russell T Davies gave voice to a generation of queer people

Bex Burch: Jazz musician compares building her own xylophone with Ant-Man in the Quantum Realm
Bex Burch with a xylophone
Jazz

Bex Burch: Jazz musician compares building her own xylophone with Ant-Man in the Quantum Realm

Interview with the Vampire star Jacob Anderson on Game of Thrones, racism and living forever
Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pont Du Lac in Interview With The Vampire. Image: BBC / AMC
Interview with the Vampire

Interview with the Vampire star Jacob Anderson on Game of Thrones, racism and living forever

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