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AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd charged with attempting to procure murderAustralian musician appears in New Zealand court after raid at home in Tauranga on the North Island -
Miriam Margolyes: ‘I do say things possibly other people don’t say'She doesn’t like Tony Abbott’s swimwear or policies, thinks Nigel Farage is frightening, loves Australia – mostly – and thinks Israel can be blind to its own faults. Anything else to add to the list?
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My Mistress review – BDSM coming of age story that plays it too safeA troubled kid meets a professional dominatrix in a film that trades a potentially challenging hypothesis for a much more familiar path -
Christine Kenneally: I was thrilled to find out I'm a convict princessAuthor who blends DNA research with personal stories to examine how people inherit their family’s experiences says understanding how history has shaped you is empowering, writes Johanna Leggatt
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The mixtape: No Zu, Jackie Onassis, La Yegros, the Church and moreCut Copy’s Melbourne snapshot, Argentine electro-folklore queen La Yegros and Jackie Onassis’s party music for heartbreak
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Zaha Hadid's Tokyo Olympic stadium slammed as a 'monumental mistake' and a 'disgrace to future generations'Oliver Wainwright: The 2020 Olympic stadium has faced two years of widespread criticism and budget cuts. Now prominent Japanese architect Arata Isozaki has launched a blistering attack on the designs
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Guo Jian on his Tiananmen Square stand: 'I'm so proud of what I did'The Chinese-born Australian artist tells <b>Monica Tan</b> about the day he was detained and later deported from Beijing for daring to make art about China today
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Health goth really is a thing: are your black tracksuits at the ready?Fashionistas seem to think doing health goth is as easy as popping on a some black Lycra to dull the glare of white teeth at your local Fitness First, writes Myf Warhurst
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A Place to Call Home: not Australia's Downton Abbey – yetAll the ingredients are there in this fresh serving of the period drama but only time will tell if this course improves with age
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Aria singles chart to include audio stream figuresA new integration of streams with sales purchases in the Aria charts may favour songs that are played multiple times by fans
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Kurt Cobain’s Montage of Heck tape: his ex-girlfriend sets record straightAs the internet implodes over the Nirvana frontman’s ‘newly’ surfaced mixtape, Everett True hears from one of its original recipients about how it was really made
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The art world’s shame: why Britain must give its colonial booty backJonathan Jones: The self-righteousnessness of British museums stops them from returning masterpieces pillaged long ago to their rightful owners. It’s time they stopped hogging the world’s treasures
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David Attenborough or World's Richest Dogs – which would you rather watch?Who would have thought that when Life on Earth first aired in 1979, it was a preview of the best 2014 had to offer, canine dinner parties and millinery notwithstanding
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Noise rewatched – Australian police drama at its sophisticated bestMatthew Saville’s debut film is utterly compelling with Brendan Cowell in the role of his career as a tinnitus-afflicted officer, writes Luke Buckmaster
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Reality television to dominate Australian screens in 2015Expect more cooking and renovation shows. Amanda Meade reports on what we’ll be watching – like it or not
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The Babadook's monster UK box office highlights problems at homeHorror film’s opening weekend in UK beats entire Australian run, but film-makers hopeful of word of mouth pick-up for DVD release
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The 50 best covers of all time: do you agree with the latest poll?Always on My Mind by the Pet Shop Boys has been voted the best ever cover song in a recent BBC census, which lists the best 50. So what did the listeners miss?
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Filthy first pages: do they make you want to read on?Christos Tsiolkas has opened his new short story collection with a bang. But, Johanna Leggatt asks, is an explicit first page likely to turn off readers?
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Stayin’ Alive by Bee Gees – embracing a very un-Australian anthemFew things in this world make the average white Australian male as uncomfortable as the thought of dancing, writes Jack Kerr
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Survivor: why mess with a reality TV formula that has lasted 4,000 years?Watching a Survivor participant spear fish in their underwear is moderately more interesting than a choreographed Big Brother twerk, writes Jazz Twemlow
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From Python to Seinfeld - are these 12 classic comedies still funny?They’re known as “comedy gold” – but are they? Really? Our critics cast an unsentimental eye over 12 from the hall of fame
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Five must-read books by Indigenous authorsIn response to Barry Spurr’s comments about Indigenous literature, Sandra Phillips says these books ‘astonish, perplex, and at times comfort the reader into re-imagining our relationships’
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Barry Humphries and Barry Spurr are a comedy double act no one needsHow can Barry Humphries support freedom of speech for Barry Spurr when censorship is just fine for his international cabaret festival? Maeve Marsden withdraws her application
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Gough Whitlam and It's Time: what happened to the political campaign song?It’s Time will be the soundtrack to countless remembrances of Gough’s life over the coming weeks – reminding us of the power of a good jingle and the artlessness of modern politics, writes Myf Warhurst
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Dating Naked: reality TV nobody should be exposed to on a sofaJazz Twemlow: Genitals are a fruitless (and blurry) gimmick in Channel Ten’s punishing new dating show where everyone’s in the buff
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Gotham: before there was Batman, there was another wannabe prequelGotham looks impressive, says Jazz Twemlow, but do we really need a cast of hipster villains or to see yet another set of Wayne parents die?
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The Bachelor finale: there are no winners in competitive datingJazz Twemlow hopes those disappointed by Blake’s breakup with Sam will remember falling in love isn’t easy, especially on national television
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Living with the Enemy? No, they're just an average Muslim coupleRailing against everyday Muslims for the crimes of extremists is like screaming at kids kicking a ball because of your (justifiable) hatred of Fifa, as one SBS program shows
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Big Brother has always been a big bully – why the new outrage?Big Brother is founded on humiliation, yet it’s only when the abuse is made conspicuous that we kick up a fuss, writes Jazz Twemlow
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Doctor Who's invisible enemy: a bogeyman for the age of terrorDepressing, isn’t it, that a TV show about a wizard in a phone box is doing a better job at digesting our fears than most newspapers, writes Jazz Twemlow
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Big Brother – viewers are the latest victims of reality TV's torture chamberJazz Twemlow: The psychotropic nightmare of the BB house now has a fishbowl into which housemates are put, making them even more pitiable
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Australian TV is a hot mess: The Block, The Bachelor and Big BrotherJazz Twemlow finds little to celebrate in his six-month anniversary of wading through the stagnant pool of Australian reality television
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Big Brother is back and it's time to push the boat out – foreverThe subtext of the reality show’s latest biblical promo is terrifying, writes Jazz Twemlow – were the world to end, that Big Brother contestants would be the ones repopulating Earth
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The Bachelor and X-Factor – in perpetual motion but going nowhereJazz Twemlow fears that with more contestants added, we could end up watching The Perpetual Bachelor: Till Blake’s Death Do Us Part
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Are porn documentaries too titillating for their own good?Jiggling flesh in a serious look at our porn problem? You might as well run a health farm with face masks cut with heroin, writes Jazz Twemlow
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Eric Abetz and George Brandis give The Bachelor a run for idiocyTime to get the popcorn out – politicians blurting out tosh bring drama, comedy and horror to the small screen, writes Jazz Twemlow
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The Bachelor: Tinder meets Wolf of Wall Street under a gilded clocheWhile generating the next fake fairytale is all part of this show’s ‘journey’, Jazz Twemlow asks: does anyone watching care where it’s headed?
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The Block and The Voice Kids: knock them down and start againJazz Twemlow looks at the week in Australian TV, where it's the staid formulas, not the buildings, that are in need of renovation
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TV's singing competitions: welcome to the age of fame entitlementWhen it comes to age, fame-chasing doesn't discriminate, as contestants on The X Factor and The Voice Kids prove
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Surviving Progress: we're advancing to oblivion one hashtag at a timeJazz Twemlow looks at the week in Australian TV, where a timely documentary shows that the government’s environmental policy may as well just be the emoticon for a shrug
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When Love Comes to Town: dating show's fizzling finaleJazz Twemlow looks at the week in Australian TV, where the wheels fell off one reality show and another went hurtling in the race to the bottom
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24: Live Another Day is a rollercoaster powered by whale meatJazz Twemlow looks at the week in Australian TV, from Jack Bauer escaping terrorist-controlled drones to something even more frightening
reviews
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Interstellar review: Nolan’s biggest spectacle – and biggest disappointmentMatthew McConaughey stars in this colossal space adventure that is as visionary as Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, but not nearly so subversive, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Pop to Popism review – shock and social critique, with an Australian threadA summer blockbuster exhibition reveals the role Australian art played in the most influential art movement of our time, writes Andrew Frost
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Two Days, One Night review – small-town tale with a universal punch
The latest from the Dardennes brothers stars the superb Marion Cotillard in an intimate drama with thriller-like intensity, writes Xan Brooks
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Flight Facilities: Down to Earth review – a familiar playlist of daydreamy hitsWith years of radio-friendly singles under their belt, the Sydney electronic music duo finally release a hazy debut album, writes Doug Wallen
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Taylor Swift: 1989 review – leagues ahead of the teen-pop competitionWhy do people take Taylor Swift so much more seriously than her peers? Great songs, smart turns of phrase and a noticeable lack of the usual hollow pop platitudes all help, writes Alexis Petridis
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William Kelly’s War review – big-minded small-budget war movieGeoff Davis filmed his battle scenes on the family farm and cast his sons as leads in a film that falls down on its screenplay, writes Luke Buckmaster
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Pride review – power in an unlikely unionBill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and George MacKay sparkle in this tale of lesbian and gay activists’ support for the miners’ strike, writes Mark Kermode
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Rolling Stones live review – an energetic trip down memory laneThe always seductive Mick Jagger led a Stones performance that was deliberate, entertaining and enthralling, writes Bob Gordon
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(When the Sun Sets Over) Carlton review – it's time to revisit Melbourne rockA new compilation charts how bands such as the Skyhooks, Sports and Daddy Cool were the cultural wing of the radical shifts that swept Australia in the 1970s
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Revolution by Russell Brand review – the barmy credo of a Beverly Hills BuddhistRussell Brand’s desire to lead a global revolution is undermined by his smug, shallow manifesto, writes Nick Cohen
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Alvin Purple rewatched – the raunchy heart of 1970s Ozploitation filmsThis racy comedy doubles as a commentary on giving the public what they want and rubbing it in prudes’ faces
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Antenna film festival review – internet addiction and an autistic man's quest for loveChinese teens sent to boot camp and af 29-year-old on a road trip to lose his virginity are among the stories covered in the fourth year of Sydney’s documentary film festival, writes Michael Safi
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The Trouble With Harry review – Eugenia Falleni's story is compelling but crowded out
Stage The Trouble With Harry review – Eugenia Falleni's story is compelling but crowded out
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Bloke: Milawa Monologues review – flawed bushmen leave lasting impressionThe men portrayed by Glenrowan playwright Margaret Hickey are simple creatures – but only on the surface, writes Rebecca Dargie
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Quiet Faith review – Christian Australia in its infinite varietyWhile the press focuses on conservative politics and religion, David Williams amplifies a variety of Christian voices in this subtly devised verbatim show, writes Jane Howard
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TI: Paperwork: The Motion Picture review – the hip-hop star diversifiesTI’s ninth album features some surprises amid the catchy, ho-ridden singles, writes Kitty Empire
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Ben Howard: I Forget Where We Were review – a slow burn that finally takes offThe Brit award winner returns with an album of slowly building songs that, at their best, could give John Martyn a run for his money, writes Molloy Woodcraft
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This Is Where I Leave You review: Fey and Bateman in tale of sibling ribaldryJason Bateman, Tina Fey and Adam Driver play the offspring of Jane Fonda, required to come home and remain there for a week after the death of their father. The performers excel, but the schmaltz can send a shiva down the spine
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Whiplash – first look film review
JK Simmons stars in a study of musical obsession which brings the anarchic yearning for success familiar from sports to the world of the conservatoire
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ABC TV's Kitchen Cabinet returns with Silver Bodgie on the menuAnnabel Crabb and dinner guest Bob Hawke serve up half an hour of bloke jokes and political banter – with a side of barramundi
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Team of Life review – dance theatre mixes sport and therapyTwo stories run in tandem: a young couple expecting a baby and a former child soldier as comfortable with a soccer ball as a gun, writes Alexandra Spring
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Hipbone Sticking Out review – a tale of two cultures, a play of two halvesAmbitious vision, tragic themes and excellent performances combine in a piece of theatre as complex as the relationship between black and white Australia, writes Van Badham
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Primo review – La Clique. For children. In a fish tankSwimmers in kaleidoscope waters prove a visual event for young theatregoers still learning the parameters of their own bodies, writes Van Badham
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My Lover's Bones review – the Bunyip of ancient legend is rebornBrown Cab theatre are at the top of their game crafting a show from an Indigenous source text with craft and originality, writes Van Badham
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Finding Vivian Maier review – fascinating study of a brilliant undiscovered talentDocumentary uncovering the mysterious life and times of Maier, a nanny whose photographs bear comparison with Cartier-Bresson, writes Peter Bradshaw
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Tammy review - Melissa McCarthy and Susan Sarandon play gran theft auto
The casting of Sarandon as McCarthy's grandmother threatens to veer this road movie off-track, but when its star is safely behind the wheel – cruising guys and robbing stores – Tammy bowls along fine
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Son of a Gun review – a silly, fun film with unfortunate character flawsJulius Avery’s debut feature is slow in patches with wonky writing but is handsomely packaged and shows off his potential, writes Luke Buckmaster
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Calpurnia Descending review – Sisters Grimm remix classic movie melodramaAmbitious drag theatre delivers a sense of playful glee, but lacks the precision to underpin its energy, writes Sara Fagir
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Complexity of Belonging review – superior stagecraft but little emotionScenes overlap in this Falk Richter and Anouk Van Dijk collaboration and the result is inarticulate confusion, writes Van Badham
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Jessie J: Sweet Talker review – British star goes all out for US successJessie J has moved to Los Angeles and made an album with the US market seemingly very much in mind, writes Caroline Sullivan
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The Judge review: jury in, gavel out on Robert Downey Jr courtroom dramaCatherine Shoard: Downey Jr defends estranged dad Robert Duvall in this tonally wobbly Toronto film festival opener also featuring Billy Bob Thornton as a diet Satan
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Death in Brunswick rewatched – Sam Neill as a leather-clad manchildNeill has great comic timing and a scene-stealing sidekick in John Clarke for this jet-black comedy of Turkish-Greek relations
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Tusk review: Kevin Smith seals his comeback with walrus horror showHenry Barnes: Inspired by a hoax Gumtree ad, Kevin Smith’s bizarre imprisonment horror movie sees the director back to his snarky best
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Australian Chamber Orchestra / Tognetti review – persuasive experiments with Jonny Greenwood
Music Australian Chamber Orchestra / Tognetti review – persuasive experiments with Jonny Greenwood
4 / 5 starsRadiohead guitarist and composer Jonny Greenwood’s new work held its own alongside Haydn, Mozart and Tchaikovsky played by this exciting ensemble, writes Rian Evans -
Primavera: Young Australian Artists review – in need of a 21st century rebootMarket demand has long softened the bite of contemporary art – as well the MCA’s annual exhibition of work from artists under 35, writes Andrew Frost
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Nikki Lane/the Delines review: from bar room to lounge, the best in countryNikki Lane has the joint jumping with a barnstorming set while the Delines provide a languid contrast with elegiac tales of troubled souls
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Justin Townes Earle/Lindi Ortega review – heartbreak songs from Nashville's finest
Music Justin Townes Earle/Lindi Ortega review – heartbreak songs from Nashville's finest
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Crack theatre festival review – rough and ready for a wider audienceThis festival of new performance in a gutted department store offered audiences a taster of new talent along with their toasties, writes Jane Howard
features
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Tony Tuckson's abstract masterpieces left to Australian nation by his widowAs Margaret Tuckson, artist’s wife and unlikely life model for his work, bequeaths 22 paintings to galleries across Australia, David Marr remembers her
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Vivian Maier: mysterious and eccentric nanny who took stunning photographs
Documentary out this week tells remarkable story of Maier and the photographs she shot – and then deliberately kept secret
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James Rolleston: New Zealand's teen star on why he's 'nothing flash-as'The Kiwi actor who impressed in Boy is back with two new homegrown films. But will the building trade claim him before Hollywood does? Alexander Bisley meets him
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Meet the ghost-sign huntersEnthusiasts travel miles to photograph faded hand-painted adverts for products and businesses that no longer exist - symbols of defiance against the city’s relentless progress
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What's wrong with Australian cinema?Two decades after the double gold of Muriel’s Wedding and Priscilla, Australian film is having a moment. A soul-searching moment. What’s stopping audiences watching it in the cinema?
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Is there such a thing as ethical porn?The actors say they’re happy, the makers say it’s guilt-free – but what exactly is ‘fair trade’ porn? Zoe Williams finds out
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Elena Ferrante: the global literary sensation nobody knowsShe shuns publicity and her identity is a mystery. Yet, as the last in her acclaimed series of novels about two friends in Naples is published, Elena Ferrante’s reputation is soaring, with Zadie Smith, James Wood and Jhumpa Lahiri among her fans. Meghan O’Rourke on a literary mystery
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The big-eyed children: the extraordinary story of an epic art fraudIn the 1960s, Walter Keane was feted for his sentimental portraits that sold by the million. But in fact, his wife Margaret was the artist, working in virtual slavery to maintain his success. She tells Jon Ronson her story, now the subject of a Tim Burton biopic
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Around the world – and Australia – in five foreign film festivalsFrom Soviet-era Russia to swinging 60s Soho, via Israel, Tokyo and Athens, tour the world from your own cinema seat, writes Anna Madeleine
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Northern soul attracts a new – and younger – demographic down underAs a film about the scene’s 1970s heyday is released, Australians are keeping northern soul alive in the southern hemisphere, writes Pete Smith
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Peter Carey: 'Privacy should be a human right, but we've been tricked out of it – it's easy to give information away. It is sort of evil'
Books Peter Carey: 'Privacy should be a human right, but we've been tricked out of it – it's easy to give information away. It is sort of evil'
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John Gould: an enduring witness to Australia’s lost mammalsThe 19th century ornithologist had a surprisingly progressive view of Australian animals, championing the fast-disappearing thylacine and broad-faced potoroo, writes Fred Ford – even if he also knew how to cook a wombat
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Briggs: there's no such thing as black and white hip-hop, just good and badAdam Briggs thinks Australia is ready for a different voice as he brings his new album back to the small town that inspired it, writes Rob Boffard
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How Jonathan Franzen almost stopped me writing my novelPaul Daley tells how he nearly walked away from his tale set in Canberra after one of his favourite authors came to town preaching against political fiction
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Anne Neill: Australia's first secret agent invited behind the iron curtainHow was a widow from South Australia drawn into espionage, counterespionage and a 1952 visit to Moscow? David Horner explains in this exclusive extract from his new history of Asio
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Artist Alex Seton on asylum: 'Someone died trying to have a life like mine'Is Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers reconfiguring its national identify? Seton’s marble palm trees and lifejackets challenge the country’s image as an ‘island paradise’
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Melbourne festival 2014: one perfect daySuffering from Melbourne festival FOMO? Get a quick fix this Saturday with our jampacked guide to what’s on when. Yes, you may have to sneak out early a couple of times but it’ll be worth it.
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Party Tricks: Asher Keddie out to prove there is life after OffspringPart romantic comedy, part political drama, this new show from the star and makers of Offspring has some big boots to fill, writes Amanda Meade
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If Courtney Barnett is slacker rock, it's pulled its socks up since the 90sShe’s yet to release an album and her style might borrow from grunge but there’s nothing Gen X about this singer’s self-motivation and her causes, writes Monica Tan
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Steen Raskopoulos: an elite comedy athlete from sporting stockThis son of a Socceroos captain and brother to three seriously talented siblings has been flexing his funny muscles for years, discovers Monica Tan
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Kryptonite: China, Australia and the 'you don't understand' conversationAustralian Dylan and Chinese Lian embody for each other the good, the bad and the ugly of their respective nations in Sue Smith’s bold play, writes Monica Tan
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The Code: Australian political thriller set for the world stageABC’s hacking drama has been sold to the UK, US and Latin America before it even airs. Amanda Meade meets creator Shelley Birse who reveals her inspiration for the series
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Brisbane festival 2014: one perfect dayWant to maximise your festival fun? Circle Saturday 20 September in the diary. You’ll need skates to zoom between venues, but it’s the day to experience the best of Brisbane, writes Alexandra Spring
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Margaret and David's memorable At The Movies moments – video
Some of the most memorable moments of the TV partnership of Margaret and David from the ABC's At The Movies
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Bardot – Poison: before Idol and X Factor, there was PopstarsAussie Anthems: in the innocent days before the reality show craze, Popstars’ Bardot proved the popularity of on-the-fly television, writes Everett True
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David and Margaret – the head and heart of Australian film cultureThey’ll be missed. Stratton’s long career gave him enviable knowledge and Pomeranz could strike to the core of a film
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Tom E Lewis: an Aboriginal Lear on walking the black/white divideThe actor’s latest work, The Shadow King, subtly illustrates the destructive forces of mining on Aboriginal families, writes Monica Tan
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The voice of Winnie the Pooh ... in the flesh – video
Jim Cummings, the American voice over actor is the voice of more characters than you can remember
pictures and video
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New Breed: five fresh Australian choreographers to watch – in picturesTake a sneak peek at Australia’s freshest choreographic talent rehearsing New Breed, Sydney Dance Company’s showcase of new contemporary dance at Carriageworks
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Hookworms perform On Leaving - Guardian sessions
Five-piece psyche band Hookworms perform On Leaving at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds
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Guardian Australia culture podcast – Melbourne festival and more
The culture team are back from Melbourne to talk about the most intriguing shows of the festival and pick November's must-sees
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The Roast: can G20 Brisbane handle the truth on climate change? – video
If the G20 is primarily an economic forum, what about the world it's held on?
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Sydney's Sculpture by the Sea 2014 – in picturesFrom a giant frying pan to a supersized slinky, the 109 sculptures lining the coastal walk between Sydney’s Bondi and Tamarama beaches may be the most kitsch selection yet
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Bill Shorten's backing for same-sex marriage gets the Roast treatment – video
News that Australia's opposition leader has done something 'progressive' and voiced support for marriage equality has the team from the Roast bringing out the Bill Shorten dancers
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Romance Was Born: fashion duo show off new kids show - video
Fashion duo Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales – better known as Romance Was Born – discuss the NGV's new gallery show for kids
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Melbourne festival 2014: the Aussie Rules of circus – video
Circus dominates at this year's Melbourne festival, but there's no big top, tiger or ringmaster in sight. Nancy Groves reports
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Invisible women: can you spot the mothers in these photographs?
The Victorian mums who disguised themselves as chairs, couches and curtains – to hold their children still for photographs
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A burqa across Australia – in picturesPhotographer Fabian Muir set out on a 10,000km journey of Australia to photograph the burqa in the country’s natural landscapes in his series, Blue Burqa in a Sunburnt Country
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Melbourne art trams add colour to the city's streets – slideshow
Artist Jeff Makin climbs aboard as eight decorated art trams brighten up Melbourne's streets for the second year running
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Framed movements: art at Melbourne festival 2014 – in picturesFrom urban grasslands sprouting on the state library steps to Carsten Höller’s golden mirror carousel at NGV, the best of the art at Melbourne festival
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The many faces of John Bell's stage highlights - in picturesAs John Bell announces his retirement from Bell Shakespeare, the company he founded to make Shakespeare accessible to all Australians, we take a look back at his long career treading the boards
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Hipbone Sticking Out at Melbourne festival: 'no story is neutral' – video
Scott Rankin and Trevor Jamieson discuss Hipbone Sticking Out, which covers thousands of years of Pilbara history, and the death in custody of John Pat, in a single performance
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The Roast: Parliament High, Ebola edition – video
The Roast team take on Ebola's place in Australia's collective consciousness, via the medium of a classic teen TV show
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Martu Art from the Far Western Desert exhibition – in picturesA new exhibition at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art brings together 29 Martu artists to present a series of works filled with vibrant colour
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John Bell's greatest roles from Lear to Richard III – video
Relive some of John Bell's greatest performances, from King Lear and Richard III to Faustus
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Comedian Josh Thomas slams MP Bob Katter on Q&A for views on gay people – video
Comedian Josh Thomas attacks MP Bob Katter for his stance on homosexuality
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The Preatures: 'There's no romance in celebrity' – video
The Preatures' Izzy Manfredi and Jack Moffitt sit down to talk about how the band met, keeping a sense of mystery and the 'Medusa head' of modern celebrity
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Australian life in 22 prize-winning photographs – in picturesFrom Indigenous cowboys and footballers to Sydney sunbathers and pieshops, the photos shortlisted for the 2014 Australian Life prize show a nation in technicolour – and transition
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12 beautiful Australian bridges – in picturesWith the 50th anniversary of Sydney’s Gladesville Bridge, we look at a number of historic and eye-catching bridges across the country
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The Bush author Don Watson on the jolly swagman – exclusive video
Reading from his new book The Bush: Travels in the Heart of Australia, Don Watson profiles the jolly swagman of fact, fiction and song
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Bling ring: jewellery of the rich and famous – in picturesCate Blanchett’s Oscars brooch and a record-breaking necklace designed for Nicole Kidman twinkle alongside Egyptian amulets and 3D design in Sydney
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10 beautiful Australian libraries – in picturesCraigieburn Library in Hume, Victoria has been named public library of the year award following a cross-continent competition – here are nine more amazing library buildings across Australia
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The Imitation Game: watch Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing in the Oscar-tipped biopic - video exclusive
Watch an exclusive clip from the acclaimed biopic of the Bletchley Park codebreaker
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Love is Strange trailer: Alfred Molina and John Lithgow play a married couple separated by circumstance - video
Watch the trailer for a romantic drama, starring John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as a married couple forced to live apart after 40 years together
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Bonfire night – in picturesBonfire night marks the anniversary of Guy Fawkes’ failure to blow up the Houses of Parliament on 5 November 1605. This year’s celebrations included wild processions in Lewes and a tar barrel festival in Devon, along with other fireworks displays around the UK
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Why Sacro GRA is the one film you should watch this week - video review
Peter Bradshaw explains why documentary film-maker Gianfranco Rosi's voyage around Rome's ring-road is worth your time this week
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Weegee distorts the stars: rare shots of Streisand, Monroe and more – in picturesFor these unusual images, the notorious ambulance-chaser of New York City turned his lens on stars and high-society players, then doctored the pictures in his darkroom
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Queen and Michael Jackson – in picturesQueen Forever, a new compilation of the band’s music, features previously unreleased tracks from sessions dating back to 1981, including a duet between Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson. Ahead of its release on 10 November, here are some images taken from that era
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The Photographers 2014: from Marlene Dietrich to Salvador Dalí – in picturesAn exhibition by two London galleries brings together a huge range of groundbreaking photographs, showcasing the work of acclaimed photographers including Brassai, Bruce Davidson and Robert Mapplethorpe
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Typewriters and their owners: famous authors at work – in picturesAs Tom Hanks announces that he is to publish a collection of short stories inspired by his love of typewriters, we remember some of the other writers who have cherished them, across the ages
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Ford fiesta: Made in Dagenham musical opens in West End – in picturesAssembly lines meet chorus lines in the new musical Made in Dagenham, starring Gemma Arterton and based on the hit British film. Go behind the scenes
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Torture trilogies and octopus heads: the world's most extreme performance artists – in picturesFrom barbershop signs made out of bloodied limbs, living mummies, and possessed drag acts, photographer Manuel Vason’s new book Double Exposures captures the artists pushing the boundaries of performance art
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Josef Koudelka: the man who risked his life to photograph the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia – in picturesAfter years of taking striking photos of Gypsies, the Czech photographer stood before the tanks during the 1968 invasion. He smuggled out his images, they went round the world and he fled to Britain. Here are his most poignant and powerful shots
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The Dreary Coast: a theatrical tour of Brooklyn's most polluted canal
Jeff Stark's The Dreary Coast is staged on the Gowanus Canal, one of the most polluted waterways in Brooklyn. Take a tour of this interactive theatre piece, which incorporates elements of several Greek myths, Dante's Inferno and a smattering of other classical and modern references, in order to tell the story of Charon, the mythical boatman who ferries souls through Hades. Read our review of the performance
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Carleton Watkins' breathtaking photographs of Yosemite from 1861 – in picturesThe definitive photographer of the American west made his name with these photographs of California’s Yosemite Valley, currently on show at New York’s Met. The series inspired President Lincoln to sign a bill preserving the valley’s beauty and laying the foundations for the US National Park system
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Sylvie Guillem's career, step by step – in picturesSylvie Guillem has announced that she will present her final dance programme at Sadler’s Wells in 2015. Revisit her journey from Parisian ballerina to global dance sensation
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Concerning Violence: watch a clip from the documentary about colonialisation, narrated by Lauryn Hill - video
Narrated by former Fugee Lauryn Hill, this documentary explores the liberation struggles across Africa in the 1960s and 70s, as colonial masters were overthrown
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Into the wild: readers' animal artworks – in picturesWild things roam free in this month’s Share your art project, with psychedelic wolves, whale karaoke and JMW Turner on safari in Bali
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A history of the 20th century in 100 maps – in picturesFrom the opium trade routes of the 1900s to CND’s operations in the 1980s, maps reveal the political leylines of history – except when it comes to the holiday islands of San Serriffe, as a new British Library book reveals
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The Missing, Intruders, Scrotal Recall and more: TV review — video
Telly addict Andrew Collins reviews House of Lies, The Missing, Scrotal Recall, Intruders and Life is Toff
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Dave Grohl: ‘You don’t need a needle hanging out of your arm to be a rock star’Dave Grohl is a man of many talents. He is also a prolific, inventive swearer. Between expletives, he tells Alexis Petridis about the Foo Fighters’ guest-laden new album – and why its accompanying TV series sees him jamming with Bad Brains and hanging with the US president
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Will Interstellar inspire a new space race?Steve Rose: Like Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey Christopher Nolan’s epic unashamedly celebrates travelling to the stars as the next logical step in our evolution. Perhaps, after years of cynicism, we’re ready to be inspired by space exploration again
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Punk, jazz and hip-hop are alive and well in China’s underground sceneDespite little money, a dearth of promoters and the threat of police clampdowns, Tim Jonze discovers a thriving independent scene in the cities of Changsha and Wuhan
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Leviathan director Andrei Zvyagintsev: ‘Living in Russia is like being in a minefield’Oscar contender Leviathan is a frank portrayal of corrupt Russia. In a rare interview, its director talks to Shaun Walker about his country’s ‘eternal curse’ and why voting there would be a ‘completely pointless step’
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Scientists outshine arts students with experiments in creative writingWith no publication angst and a killer work ethic, science students easily match their peers in the humanities in the art of creative writing. It even makes them better scientists, says novelist and teacher Aifric Campbell
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The day with some salacious penguins, some Smashing Pumpkins and some cute robotsIt’s another tumescent Guide Daily, your handy repository for you pop culture needs. Tunes, vids, trailers, and - today - more mawkish tweeness than your can hurl a fwuffy wittle kitten at. Get in touch with us @guideguardian or at that bit at the bottom of the page colloquially known as ‘the comments’. We’re here until 5.30, so turn on, tune in, and, erm, make yourself a brew or something
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William Klein: 'My pictures showed everything I resented about America'A resident of Paris for 60 years, Klein’s photographs of 1950s New York caught the city’s energy and grit and made his name. He talks about returning to Brooklyn, working for Vogue – and being praised by Picasso
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Bonfire night – in picturesBonfire night marks the anniversary of Guy Fawkes’ failure to blow up the Houses of Parliament on 5 November 1605. This year’s celebrations included wild processions in Lewes and a tar barrel festival in Devon, along with other fireworks displays around the UK
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From the archive, 6 November 1976: Tory MP seeks tax on sexy filmsOriginally published in the Guardian on 6 November 1976: ‘If people must really see X or AA films then I think they should not object to paying a little extra for the privilege’ - Richard Body MP
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Benedict Cumberbatch announces engagement to director Sophie HunterAn engagement announcement was posted in the Times, between Sherlock star Cumberbatch and Hunter, an actor and successful stage director
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Lena Dunham apologises after critics accuse her of sexually molesting sisterGirls creator says she is ‘dismayed’ by interpretation of childhood behaviour, described in her memoir, as abuse
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Murder at the museum: death and decay go on displayWellcome Collection’s exhibition on the history of forensics includes slides from Crippen case and a stabbed liver
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Clive Davis: ‘Janis Joplin thought sleeping with me would make things seem less corporate’The veteran record producer talks about his key collaborations with Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Bruce Springsteen and Alicia Keys – and his regrets for those he never signed
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The day Michael Fassbender was tipped for the Steve Jobs biopicWelcome to the Guide Daily, where we’ll be sharing the best news, links, tunes and vids. Today: Ariel Pink, the Daily Show and Michael Fassbender
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Arts spending shows London bias, say MPsImbalance unfair on taxpayers and lottery players elsewhere in UK, says culture select committee
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Witch marks fit for a king beguile archaeologists at KnoleMarks discovered during extensive conservation were carved within months of Gunpowder Plot at great house in Sevenoaks for anticipated visit of James I
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Little time for Griff Rhys Jones’s gripe on mansion taxLetters: On the same page is the story of John McArthur, who has been sanctioned by the DWP for declining to work unpaid for the same company which had laid him off
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The day Girls returned and Cheryl sworeWelcome to another Guide Daily where we’ll be crawling the curbs of pop culture once again. Stumbling upon various Girls and other metaphors that border on the unsavoury. Enjoy!
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Amy Jenkins and Jack Davenport: how we made This Life‘I wrote Anna as my alter ego – and Miles stood for all the self-satisfied but charming men I fancied’
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The day when Marilyn Manson and Iggy Azalea owned HalloweenWe brought you news of career-defining Halloween costumes and a cure for Taylor Swift-itis
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Griff Rhys Jones: I may flee UK over Labour’s mansion taxTV star and owner of ‘gigantic’ house in London says he would face a ‘colossal tax aimed at foreigners’ if levy is introduced
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Over the Garden Wall: slapstick for the kids, existential dread for the adultsSurreal, mildly scary and with a vintage aesthetic, this will be equally popular with children and adults who buy artisanal pickles at the Brooklyn Flea Market
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Griff Rhys Jones threatens to leave the country over Labour’s mansion taxRhys Jones joins the likes of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Paul Daniels and Phil Collins by saying he’ll emigrate if Labour get in.
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Whitby goth weekend – in picturesGoths flock to the North Yorkshire seaside town for the popular twice-yearly music festival
Books Anzac and Gallipoli are the novelist's terrain as much as the historian's