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    Splashing in the Seine, diving in the Danube: the drive to make cities swimmable | Architecture

    On a summer morning in the Swiss city of Basel, groups of commuters bob merrily down the Rhine. They’re not on boats but...

    The factional anthem: why dictators, leaders and protesters have fought over Beethoven’s Ninth | Proms 2024

    There was nothing unusual – the world being as it is – in the fact that Hulk Hogan was one of more erudite...

    ‘Peter Capaldi was punched off his chair’: Fifty years of explosive theatre company Paines Plough | Stage

    It began over a pint in a Bedford pub. Fifty years later, Paines Plough is a theatrical trailblazer. Dedicated to new plays, the...

    Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple review – Dench and Blades’ real-life friendship fills you with wonder | Television

    We must just bow our heads and accept it. Some commissions are unavoidable, and Dame Judi and Jay: The Odd Couple is one...

    Fontaines DC: Romance review – arenas await, but on the band’s own strange terms | Fontaines DC

    Few debuts in recent years have boasted an opening quite as striking as Big, the first track on Fontaines DC’s 2019 album Dogrel....

    I wanna be top-rated: Ramones’ 20 greatest songs – ranked! | The Ramones

    20. Something to Believe In (1986)Perhaps the last Ramones song to sound heartfelt came on 1986’s Animal Boy. Joey Ramone’s voice was an...

    ‘I get misgendered all the time’: Elliot Page on his return to acting on the big screen | Film

    The last time Elliot Page appeared in a film, it was literally a car crash. Page, who was nominated for an Oscar at...

    ‘Identifying as underrated isn’t healthy’: Tinashe on staging the pop comeback of the year | Pop and rock

    So far, all things considered, 2024 has been pretty dark. Online, people are responding by embracing fecklessness and hedonism. Some are having a...

    Pom Poko: Champion review – garage rockers finding joy in the everyday | Music

    ‘Keep driving! Try something!” singer Ragnhild Fangel Jamtveit invites on Champion, the title track of Pom Poko’s third album. A serene song from...

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