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5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now
Lise Davidsen’s Verdi, Anthony Davis’s “The Central Park Five” and a new take on Britten’s cello suites among our selections.
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Real or not: Fury to KO Joshua? Dubois-Wardley 2 a classic? Garcia-Haney 2 next?
Nick Parkinson and James Regan answer these questions in an effort to separate what's real from what's not.
The New York TimesCulture
Dark Retellings of Classic Books Like ‘Jane Eyre,’ ‘Frankenstein’ and More
The best-selling author Kat Dunn recommends some of her favorite modern retellings, of “Jane Eyre,” “Frankenstein” and more.
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Jets, Canadiens dressed to impress with new NHL Heritage Classic sweaters
After taking a three-year break, the NHL Heritage Classic returns with the Canadiens and Jets meeting outdoors.
The GuardianSports
Total Midweek Kane: England’s icon delivers a classic on his way to footballing ultimacy | Barney Ronay
On a night where he equalled Peter Shilton’s England appearance record, Harry Kane did what he always does It is a very Harry Kane kind of thing to equal a record. Respectful, no ego, all about the collective. On a room temperature night at Wembley Stadium Kane duly did this, drawing level with Peter Shilton’s record…
The VergeTechnology
GTA VI will have in-game podcasts and at least six radio stations
Music is always a major part of a Grand Theft Auto game, and Rockstar Games says GTA VI will have the series' "biggest and widest-ranging selection of in-game radio yet." There will be at least six radio stations players can listen to in vehicles or on foot, ranging from talk radio to classic rock: Cocoteo […]
The GuardianCulture
Sofia Coppola: ‘I’m glad we weren’t kicked out of Tokyo making Lost in Translation’
The director talks about what she learnt from her mother, working with a rookie Tim Burton, and 20 years of her cult classic Marie Antoinette Hello , I’m Cherry, I’m 14 and an aspiring film-maker. I love how your films capture what it feels like to be a young girl growing up. We hear so much about the famous men in…
The GuardianCulture
Nobel prize in literature 2026 live: winner to be announced shortly
Bookies’ favourites include Canadian poet Anne Carson, Chinese experimental writer Can Xue and Japanese writer Haruki Murakami Possible contender: Anne Carson One of this year’s frontrunners is Anne Carson. Born in 1950 in Toronto, Canada, Carson is a poet, essayist, translator and was a professor of classics. Her…
The GuardianCulture
Pierre review – David Harewood’s twisty noir is an instant crime classic
Harewood has always had star power to burn – and he well and truly ignites this bold, sharp show about working in the police as a person of colour. What a brilliant milestone for Black British cop drama Some of us are too young to have seen David Harewood play Othello at the National Theatre in London back in ’97. It…
The GuardianCulture
Educating Rita review – Willy Russell’s classic still has plenty to teach us
Curve theatre, Leicester Director Cara Nolan keeps the play’s original 1980s setting but its message about how expectations are dictated by class and gender is anything but dated So much of the success of Willy Russell’s ivory-spired two-hander rests on the chemistry between its actors. The play traces a woman’s…
The GuardianCulture
The Craft review – cult high-school horror a reminder of the fearless 90s
The 30th-anniversary rerelease of this classic tackles the sensitivities of teenage anxiety with energy and confidence The chrysalis of 80s and 90s high-school comedy finally gave us a veritable butterfly of fear in this cult girl-power classic from 1996, co-written and directed by Andrew Fleming, now rereleased for…
The GuardianWorld
Rubio in Greece digs into past to tout Trump’s ‘America first’ approach
In the shadow of the Parthenon, the secretary of state gave a selective reading of history as he urged Europe to ‘awaken from its slumber’ The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, delivered a classically inspired apologia for Donald Trump’s “America first” foreign policy on Wednesday, giving a sweeping speech to the…
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Badenoch’s inheritance tax gambit makes no economic sense
The Tory leader’s proposal to slash the tax would shovel £6bn of taxpayer money to the already-wealthy Kemi Badenoch’s inheritance tax gambit is a Conservative classic. After all, it was George Osborne’s high-profile pledge to “take the family home out of inheritance tax” in 2007 that put Gordon Brown off calling a…
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I'm a classic old-school Conservative, says Kemi Badenoch
The Tory leader seeks to echo Margaret Thatcher as she sets out her guiding political principles.
BBC NewsCulture
Stephen King's Carrie returns to explore the horrors of social media
Another beloved classic gets a modern-day twist. Its cast and creator argue why it needed to be remade.
The GuardianCulture
Other Worlds Than These by Stephen King and Peter Straub review – a self-indulgent finale to the Talisman trilogy
There are moments of shivering joy as the protagonist of two enduring classics, Jack Sawyer, returns – but this time his journey feels endlessly repetitive Bear with me, because there is some backstory to get through before we can talk about the book I am actually here to review. Back in 1984, Stephen King and Peter…
The GuardianCulture
Carrie review – the teenage hellraiser’s glorious return couldn’t come at a better time
This witty, smart remake takes teenage bullying and telekinetic violence to new extremes. Even the shower scene is more excruciating than the original The automatic response to the news that a stone-cold classic of any genre is to be remade is “Why?” In an accompanying letter to critics, the creator of the new TV…
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Eva Marie Saint, star of North by Northwest and On the Waterfront, dies aged 102
Landmark roles were in 50s classics directed by Elia Kazan and Alfred Hitchcock, before going on to play Superman’s adoptive mother in later life Eva Marie Saint, one of the last survivors of Hollywood’s golden age of the 1940s and 50s, has died aged 102. Her screen work spanned six decades: Saint made her screen…
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Fangs a million: Lenny Rush on turning an Eric Morecambe classic into a hilarious vampire comedy
He won a Bafta while only a teen, and now he’s the lead in a creepy sitcom adapted by Alan Partridge’s writers. Ahead of The Reluctant Vampire, he talks mates, mums who write him letters – and his love of David Brent Only when absolutely badgered will Lenny Rush admit that the title role of The Reluctant Vampire, Val…
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Winnie-the-Pooh books to fill phone box libraries
The original publisher says it will donate Milne's classics alongside a new authorised sequel.
