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Sound check - Annie Mac - the queen of dance

07.10.11
Club music is at an all-time high and suddenly everyone wants to know where the next big tune is coming from - who better to ask than Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac?... more

Barry Harris, Pizza Express Jazz Club - review

26.08.11
Even now, with his 82nd birthday looming in December, Barry Harris continues to play and teach all over the world... more

CDs of the week: The Horrors and Alex Clare

08.07.11
Our critics round-up this week's biggest music releases...... more

Michael Gove: Literature is dying out in schools

01.04.11
Classic literature is at risk of dying out in schools, the Education Secretary Michael Gove has warned ... more

Watercolour wonders at Tate Britain and Courtauld Gallery

24.02.11
The bigger of two new exhibitions devoted to watercolour demonstrates the beauty of the art as much as it clouds the picture with naive enthusiasm for the craft... more

Barack Obama must rally his supporters to stand firm by him

01.10.10
As he faces mid-term elections, the novelty has worn off Barack Obama — but his fall from grace is unjust... more

The new school ties

27.09.10
If you’re an American billionaire, there’s only one place to put your charity dollars — education, says Philip Delves Broughton... more

From my tranquil English garden to a Harlem shuffle

28.05.10
View from America: One of our leading poets reveals his excitement at moving to New York’s most famous ethnic district... more

The mean streets image no longer matches New York

23.04.10
View from America: Murder rates are rising again in the Big Apple but as in London, the city is still safer than it was 30 years ago ... more

Precious is the mother of all weepies

29.01.10
The African-American underclass is brought to the screen in a painfully emotive tale of redemption full of stunning performances in Precious.... more

Video: Gary Coleman jailed

26.01.10
Diff'rent Strokes actor Gary Coleman has been jailed in the US... more

How author created film character Precious through her own sexual abuse

13.01.10
Precious, a movie about a 25-stone teenager made pregnant by her father, echoes the troubled past of author Sapphire on whose book it is based... more

New York’s divisions show up our racial harmony

21.09.09
Watching Do The Right Thing again should make us want to celebrate London's spirit of tolerance... more

Sound check: rock, the new rapper's delight

04.09.09
Jay-Z and Beyoncé were unlikely faces in the crowd at a gig of psychedelic rockers Grizzly Bear this week — now the rap king is spreading the word about indie music... more

Hackney performers head for Harlem stage

13.08.09
The Hackney Empire is forging a pioneering exchange programme with a Harlem theatre that will see a company of east London performers make their New York stage debut this month... more

Best disco nights in London

07.08.09
Disco is officially back, and with the kind of image change Prime Minister Gordon Brown probably dreams about nightly.... more

Bleached-out Michael Jackson is no role model for me

03.07.09
It is exactly a week since the ridiculous mass hysteria first erupted over the death of MJ (as he is now being called). For seven days the nation has been deluged with little else but the ceaseless outpourings of grief... more

Obama's new regime - it's too old school for my taste

03.12.08
There's a strange sense of political limbo here in America at the moment... more

Abdullah Ibrahim is architect of ambience

01.12.08
Wily old fox that he is, Abdullah Ibrahim rations his appearances and takes care to give them atmosphere.... more

How Obama’s triumph will inspire us black Britons

06.11.08
A leading London playwright joins the Barack Obama election party in Times Square and amid the hugs and kisses says a black Prime Minister here is now possible... more

Art London enters new world

03.10.08
Art London is spicing up life for the Chelsea Pensioners by celebrating its 10th anniversary in their grounds.... more

Art that's good enough to eat in American Scene

07.08.08
The American Scene displays a long list of artists whom most of us have never heard of and includes the little-known prints of household names.... more

Indiana Jones and the hunt for an unripped pair of pants

22.05.08
Perhaps he'd had an accident with his whip, but Harrison Ford had a rip in his trousers at the Indiana Jones premiere in New York's Harlem yesterday. ... more

Angel eyes and witchcraft

20.03.08
With a relaxed approach, American jazz singer-pianist Daryl Sherman is a pleasure to listen to, says Jack Massarik.... more

Pictures of a different stripe

17.09.07
There are some gorgeous images of high-fashion at Magnum's 60th anniversary exhibition at their headquarters in Old Street.... more

Coming soon for autumn

24.08.07
After the silliness of the summer blockbusters, autumn brings a crop of films for grown-ups. See our preview here.... more

Funky virtuoso

25.07.07
Bankable near-jazz stars are the face of the new Ronnie Scott's, and singer-guitarist Jose Feliciano is the latest artist to benefit.... more

Making middle of the road

22.08.06
Non-stop entertainment from Fringe Opera singers Three Mo' Tenors proves that the only people who should ever don back-to-front baseball hats are operatic tenors moonlighting as hip hoppers.... more


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