Bob Dylan’s son Jakob urges musicians to get together
Singer’s new documentary about the 1960s Laurel Canyon music scene shows why there is no substitute for creative collaboration
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Can we please stop talking about Adele’s body?
You’d think during a pandemic we’d all have gained a little perspective – but policing female bodies and appetites is a timeless trend
From stage star to Vogue cover: Why age cannot wither Judi Dench
She is the oldest person to grace the fashion bible’s cover – and she’s a hit on social media. Who says that getting older signals an end to vitality?
Little Richard, rock’n’roll pioneer, dies aged 87
His 1955 song Tutti Frutti, with the lyric ‘awopbopaloobop alopbamboom’, and a series of follow-up records helped establish the genre and influence a multitude of other musicians
Rutger Bregman: ‘Our secret superpower is our ability to cooperate’
The historian offers a hopeful view of human nature in his latest book, Humankind. It couldn’t have come at a better time
Phones away, please: the rise and rise of the online pub quiz
Your local boozer might be shut but the pub quiz lives on, with everyone from Helen Mirren to Stephen Fry asking the questions
‘Colour allows us to understand in a deeper sense’: Hitler, Churchill and others in a new light
The story of global conflict is all the more powerful when it isn’t seen in black and white. Artist Marina Amaral explains her latest work
Terrible name, terrific sitcom: how Schitt’s Creek became a surprise hit
Word of mouth turned the riches-to-rags show into a sleeper hit. Its creator and stars explain why it is going out at its peak
Pippa Evans: ‘The funniest word? Discombobulated, it’s how everyone’s feeling right now’
The musical comedian, improviser and composer on the things that make her laugh the most
Abel Ferrara’s lockdown choices: sexual deviance, wild sci-fi and Nazi propaganda
The director of King of New York, Bad Lieutenant and The Funeral recommends film and TV for a coronavirus age, in the hope that ‘the light becomes more evident in the darkness’
They’re here – and now they’re queer: is rewriting TV characters’ sexuality just a gimmick?
Star Trek’s Seven of Nine, once firmly under the male gaze, has seemingly been confirmed as queer. Even so, on television and beyond, changing backstories can feel piecemeal
‘What’s this, Dignitas north east?’ Plans for Gateshead Quays are a miserable mishmash
Sneaked out under cover of Covid-19 and couched in empty jargon, plans for a £260m waterfront complex are a grim symptom of private-sector power