Derek Mitchell on queer adolescence and the darker side of wanting to be seen (EXCLUSIVE)

It was a really nice place to grow up in so many ways. But there was also darkness lurking behind what felt like a simple surface: fear, death and secrets. I think that’s one of the reasons David Lynch always made…

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Ghost Jr Ups The Tempo On Latest Single ‘2 Phones’

A moody, full-force club heater, the track sees the Belgian producer enter a new realm sonically. Merging together racing breaks, trance and techno melodies, it’s a release that sits comfortably between crowded…

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LSO/Pappano review – bold, dramatic and cohesive reading of Mahler 2

First, though, the UK premiere of a new work by Dai Fujikura that had precisely nothing to do with the main event but was no less interesting for that. Amber Alchemy, commissioned to celebrate the centenary of Nomura…

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The National joined by Richard Reed Parry and play ’90-Mile Water Wall’ for first time since 2014 at first full gig in two years

Find footage and the setlist below. The gig marked their first full-band concert since 2024 , and was held last night (Sunday October 18) at the closing night of AB100 at the Kursaal Auditorium in San Sebastián.…

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Burna Boy, Metro Boomin, Skepta & Karan Aujla Announced As Headliners For Rolling Loud India 2026

Taking place between December 12th-13th, the lineup boasts a carefully-curated roster of international powerhouses and India’s finest homegrown artists. Joining Burna Boy and Metro Boomin on Day One are Big Sean…

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Netherlands’ Prime Minister Rob Jetten and Nicolás Keenan announce they’re expecting their first child

The couple shared the news in a joint Instagram post today (19 October), posing alongside their surrogate, Lisa, while holding an ultrasound scan. Read next “A very special person is on the way. See you in 2027, little…

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Slow Horses season 7 castings revealed for Doctor Who and MobLand favourites in exclusive update

Ninidze appeared in season 6 in a minor voice role as KGB spymaster Vassily Rasnokov, so we can assume that he will be reprising that character. Meanwhile, it has also been confirmed that James Callis will return as…

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The Night Is Fading Away review – hypnotic homage to cinema as a force for public good

Though set within a single-screen theatre in the Argentinian city of Córdoba, Ramiro Sonzini and Ezequiel Salinas's hypnotic film invokes a more porous relationship between the screen and its audience. Here, the…

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‘We tried to levitate the Pentagon’: the almost unbelievable life of Ed Sanders, trickster god of the US counterculture

Sanders is an American maverick; a musician, poet, activist, journalist and author whose greatest hit remains his bestselling 1971 book The Family, in which he chronicled the lives, crimes and trials of Manson and his…

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Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji review – sublime wonders from the Great Wave to that heroic, eternal peak

It is a monster, hungry to swallow human flesh. But beyond it, over the wild water, soothing the terror of those in peril on the sea, is Mount Fuji – a solid cone of hope and solace. The mountain, not the wave, is the…

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