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    ‘I felt like the gates of something huge had opened’: Ali Kalthami on his subversive new Saudi thriller | Film

    Even when change is long-awaited, it’s not always easy to handle. The Saudi Arabian director Ali Kalthami was born in 1983, the year...

    Smetana & Schubert: Piano Trios album review – immensely promising debut | Classical music

    This is the Trio Bohémo’s first CD, and it’s an immensely promising debut. Schubert’s great E flat Piano Trio D929 and Smetana’s Trio...

    ‘Optimists have happier lives’: Laurie Anderson on Bowie, Lou Reed and ‘romantic, inspiring’ JFK | Laurie Anderson

    Your debut album, Big Science (1982), opens with: “Good evening, this is your captain, we are about to attempt a crash landing”, while...

    TV tonight: zombie-hunting in Manhattan? It’s another Walking Dead spinoff | Television

    The Walking Dead: Dead City9pm, Sky MaxHe only debuted midway through The Walking Dead but leather-clad despot Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) made a...

    Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Wild God review – this masterpiece will make you fall back in love with life | Nick Cave

    Perhaps the most telling moment on Wild God comes about a quarter of an hour in. A track called Joy opens in a...

    Kneecap review – Irish-language hip-hop trio in fiercely riotous Belfast romp | Film

    The Irish-language hip-hop trio Kneecap from Belfast caused much spluttering from the DUP in 2019 when, one day after William and Kate’s royal...

    Secret Lives of Orangutans review – David Attenborough’s new series is utterly relaxing TV | Television

    It’s not easy being a homo sapien. We have to go to work every day, sitting in front of a bright, glaring screen...

    A baby checks her mail between the Toxteth riots: Mike Abrahams’ best photograph | Photography

    I grew up near Penny Lane in Liverpool but I didn’t see many blue suburban skies. Just like any other northern industrial city,...

    ‘We’re not trying to rival the Prodigy’: how podcasters took over music festivals | Podcasts

    It’s a tough time to be an artist who plays arenas. Earlier this year, the Black Keys made headlines when they canned an...

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