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The Royal Ballet's La Fille mal gardée at Covent Garden, review

10th March 2010

Mark Monahan welcomes the Royal Ballet's revival of Frederick Ashton's romantic comedy Read more…

Songs in the Key of London at the Barbican, review

10th March 2010

This musical celebration of the nation's capital offered ramshackle fun, but was not entirely successful. Rating: * * Read more…

Mahler's Fifth Symphony, Halle Orchestra, review

10th March 2010

Mark Elder conducted the Halle Orchestra in a slightly too measured performance of Mahler's Fifth Symphony. Rating: * * * Read more…

Art & Galleries

Annie Leibovitz can keep photography portfolio under new debt deal

Annie Leibovitz can keep photography portfolio under new debt deal

9th March 2010

Annie Leibovitz has entered into an agreement with a private investment firm to help manage her debt and market her portfolio of celebrity images. Read more…

'EYE SAW: Aesthetics and Ethics' exhibit to open in London

'EYE SAW: Aesthetics and Ethics' exhibit to open in London

9th March 2010

One of the UK’s most promising young documentary photographers, Thomas Saunderson, will exhibit new work which seeks to reasses the aesthetics of the documentary genre. Read more…

Gadgets & Gaming

LG to launch full 3D TV line in May

10th March 2010

  LG were already ahead of the field bringing its passive 3D technology LCD TV (LD920) which is being rolled out in pubs across the country.   But now LG hope to lead the 3D... Read more…

First Modern Warfare 2 DLC released this month

10th March 2010

Five months after the release of Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty developers Infinity Ward have announced that the first downloadable content pack for the game will be released for... Read more…

Sony Lovefilm streaming coming next week

10th March 2010

With Samsung already out of the blocks with its new Lovefilm-friendly TVs, Sony was never going to be far behind in detailing its plans. The tech giant has confirmed today that... Read more…

Features & Comment

Powerless Lenin

10th March 2010

Just when you thought there was nothing left to say about Lenin, along comes a fine book that represents him afresh by concentrating on his life before achieving power. Vladimir... Read more…

Where did the counterculture go?

10th March 2010

Back in the 1970s, I bought a paperback guide to “alternative Scotland”. The entire entry for Glenrothes read, “The alternative to Glenrothes is Edinburgh”. The... Read more…

Tim Pears in the valleys

10th March 2010

The politics of class has been a consistently rewarding theme in the fiction of Tim Pears. His beguiling debut, In the Place of Fallen Leaves (1993), looked at a rural English... Read more…

Theatre & Dance

Eliminate theatre critics at your peril | David Cote

10th March 2010

Cost-saving US publishers are ditching seasoned reviewers – and pitching criticism into incoherent chaos in the processOn Monday, the iconic industry trade paper Variety sacked... Read more…

Love Never Dies: the reviews reviewed

10th March 2010

'Phantastic' sets, 'phabulous' music – but the critics struggle to get their heads around Andrew Lloyd Webber's elusive plotYou weren't expecting a masterpiece, were you?... Read more…

Love Never Dies video: Andrew Lloyd Webber hits back at bloggers

10th March 2010

Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber dismisses negative reviews of the show, which had its world premiere in London last night Read more…

Culture Columnists

David Tennant and Billie Piper get together again on big screen for murder thriller

David Tennant and Billie Piper get together again on big screen for murder thriller

5th March 2010

Billie Piper and David Tennant are being reunited on the big screen. The Doctor Who stars are in discussions to appear in a big-screen thriller that will be directed by Piper's... Read more…

The Hurt Locker producer banned from Oscars after breaking Acadamy rules

The Hurt Locker producer banned from Oscars after breaking Acadamy rules

3rd March 2010

Nicolas Chartier sent an e-mail in February to some academy members asking for their support for 'The Hurt Locker,' Read more…

BAZ BAMIGBOYE: Madonna persuades Abbie Cornish to sign up for her new film on Edward VIII

2nd March 2010

The movie, W.E., about the abdication crisis, tells parallel tales about Wallis Simpson in the 1930s and a contemporary woman called Wally Winthrop, who has romantic problems of... Read more…

Books

Derek Walcott - White Egrets

Derek Walcott - White Egrets

10th March 2010

(Faber) Derek Walcott’s White Egrets was years in the writing, its publication coming after last year’s Poetrygate which resulted in his reputation smeared through... Read more…

Glasgow’s Aye Write literary festival - Louise Welsh interview

Glasgow’s Aye Write literary festival - Louise Welsh interview

5th March 2010

Ahead of her appearance at Glasgow’s Aye Write! literary festival, crime fiction master Louise Welsh tells Claire Sawers about the dark side of the English Lit department in her... Read more…

Jonathan Safran Foer - Eating Animals

Jonathan Safran Foer - Eating Animals

4th March 2010

(Hamish Hamilton) Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book – a thoughtful and vigorously researched survey of US farming practices – may seem at odds with his previous works, but... Read more…