“Comme Toujours Here I Stand,” by Big Dance Theater, takes a 1962 film about the afternoon of an anxious pop singer in Paris as a starting point.

On Wednesday, during the later of two sets with the Duke Ellington Orchestra at the Blue Note, Brian McKnight was in scholar mode, tackling classics from the Ellington catalog and happily turning them into McKnight songs.

This is not a sales pitch. I'm only kvelling. The printed memorial edition is stunningly handsome.... - Straight Up |

Feel like you're the last to see the new Hollywood blockbuster? You may be right — because studios have started premiering big films overseas before they come to the United States.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

Colin McIntyre, founding editor of the BBC's Ceefax service, the world's first teletext service, has died at the age of 85, his family confirms.

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On this week's show, we talk about how the recently concluded TV season went, we touch on pop culture portrayals of older and younger people, and as always, we discuss what's making us happy this week.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

X Factor producers confirm that Dannii Minogue will not return and Sacha Baron Cohen gives a rare interview out of character plus the rest of the day's entertainment headlines.

SHAUN Micallef may not know exactly what his new show looks like, but at least he isn't sure how to work it out. Or something.

IT was the world's longest literary party, Paris in the 1920s, the era of Gertrude Stein, Hemingway and Joyce and of Cole Porter's lyrics.

(The Illustrator by Julianna Brion)

luclatulippe: I recently had a very interesting exchange with a fellow illustrator about reps, so I thought I’d share some of what we talked about here.  I don’t think illustrators necessarily need representation. I’ve said before: An illustrator without a rep is STILL an illustrator. But a rep without illustrators is just someone with nice business cards. (I sound like a big jerk there, and I’m sorry. If you’re a rep I’m sure I’ll hear from you and that’s totally cool.)  Click the “read more” link to see the full list and read all my opinionated blathering: Read More

Sparks (sort of) flew last night at the opening of the newly revamped Photographers' Gallery in London last night, when arts heavyweight Liz Forgan followed the ever ebullient Ed Vaizey, the arts minister, as guest speaker at the swanky launch bash....

Commuters on their daily slog on the London Underground can savour yet another intriguing work of art on the Tube courtesy of artist Bob and Roberta Smith and creative film director Tim Newton. Who is Community? - a short film and series of...

It was one of the more tempting offers that came in to my inbox this Friday to experience teleportation through time and space. Something about the letter seemed familiar, and perhaps I had already been on it, had been sent back to the moment the e-mail arrived and was experiencing some kind of time-travel indigestion.

It was in early 2011 that I heard playwright Maksym Kurochkin make a fascinating observation. He was in Austin, Texas, attending a festival of new Russian drama. At the time I was listening in on Skype.