A glamorous black woman sits in a Forties bar under a Vichy cop’s gaze, cigarette tilted at an angle, till two male ...

As a sometime writer of Poirot, Sherlock and Christmas ghost stories, Mark Gatiss is no stranger to enigmatic crimes and ...

There is a freshness about a show by Youssou N’Dour that never seems to get pale He still has one of the great voices of ...

The auditorium and arena were packed – and the stage even more so, bursting at the seams with players and singers: the ...

What a great album – and what a great story to lift the heart in these fetid times. A story that crosses oceans and decades ...

What am I, a philosophical if not political Marxist whose hero is Antonio Gramsci, doing in Harvey Nichols buying Comme des ...

The best-selling single so far this year in the UK is Californian singer Alex Warren’s “Ordinary”. It stayed at the top of ...

Before Luigi Illica wrote the libretti for Puccini’s Tosca and Madama Butterfly, he had joined the composer as the librettist ...

I like guns. At school we had to fight with guns in the army cadets. I’m actually a first-class sniper. I could shoot people ...

England was movie-mad long before the US. Contrary to appearances in a Hollywood-dominated world, the celluloid film process was patented in London in 1890 and by 1905 minute-long films of news and ...

A thirtysomething American woman with wavering self-confidence, a tendency to talk too much and a longing for married bliss ...

As the name suggests, the Near Jazz Experience owe a huge musical debt to jazz, but that’s not the full story by any means.