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Is a New Women's Cinema emerging?

17.07.09
Female film-makers are making a big impact at the movies. Does this mean, asks Courtney Hunt, director of Oscar-nominated Frozen River, that we are seeing a New Women's Cinema emerge?... more

A privilege to welcome Cornell Dupree to Ronnie’s

14.07.09
Cornell Dupree is one of the most authentic guitarists of backwoods America.... more

Justine Timberlake - My London

10.07.09
Justine Timberlake loves staying at Claridge's and wants to go to 'Rainstonbury' one day...... more

City Spy: Story of princes and the tower

24.06.09
The Qatari Royal family may have taken notice of Prince Charles and abandoned plans for Chelsea Barracks... more

In-form Graeme McDowell makes up for lost time at the US Open

19.06.09
Golf: Graeme McDowell took an early share of the clubhouse lead as there was finally some significant action at the US Open... more

Graeme McDowell's late rally fails to secure title

15.06.09
Golf: Graeme McDowell will go into this week's US Open in high spirits following his best finish of the season... more

The Mountaintop captures Martin Luther King's conscience

15.06.09
Is there anything new to say about Martin Luther King? Katori Hall certainly thinks so. Her vibrant play The Mountaintop evokes his doomed humanity.... more

Graeme McDowell profiting from late invitation

12.06.09
Golf: Graeme McDowell made good use of his sponsors' invitation at the St Jude Classic to sit third after the first round in Memphis... more

David Harewood: The man, who would be King

09.06.09
David Harewood has his pick of roles but it's the chance to play Martin Luther King that has drawn him to a tiny pub theatre.... more

Lessons of the Lehman epidemic

29.04.09
On 16 November 2002 the first official case of Sars was recorded in China. Panic ensued. Media and modern communications fed this frenzy and transmitted it across borders ... more

EMI copyright deal to protect Martin Luther King speeches

18.03.09
The speeches of Martin Luther King are to be protected under a copyright deal with a British record company... more

Bono: My daughters think I'm SO uncool

27.02.09
Bono may have millions of fans across the world, but he still has trouble impressing his two teenage daughters.... more

Blundering LTA have held me back, says Keothavong

23.02.09
Tennis: Anne Keothavong has claimed she would have done broken into the world’s top 50 years ago were it not for “unprofessional people” at the Lawn Tennis Association... more

Anne reaches semi

20.02.09
Tennis: Anne Keothavong fought her way through to her second semi-final of the year as she beat Marina Erakovic 6-2, 1-6, 6-2 at the Cellular South Cup in Memphis... more

Keothavong wins but is given tough time by teen

19.02.09
Tennis: Anne Keothavong had to dig deep to beat 16-year-old Michelle Larcher De Brito and reach the quarter-finals of the Cellular South Cup in Memphis... more

Come on U2, let's go out for a family dinner

18.02.09
Bono wasn't going to let a silly little detail like that stop him from wearing his sunglasses. ... more

Hit and miss for Brit pack

17.02.09
Tennis: Anne Keothavong reached the second round of the WTA Regions Morgan Keegan Championships in Memphis but fellow Briton Melanie South was knocked out... more

Bug's life at an end for rising star Keothavong

05.02.09
Britain's number one women's tennis player Anne Keothavong no longer has to share a room with cockroaches now she's on the verge of elite top 50... more

Chuck Berry is still reelin' & rockin'

18.11.08
Chuck Berry appeared in a red sequinned shirt and jaunty sailor's cap and played guitar in a way that no one else can.... more

Falling oil brightens outlook

03.10.08
It is tempting to believe when the credit markets are in turmoil and the banking world is coming apart at the seams that this is the only thing happening in the world... more

Mulgrew Miller is Old master with new tricks

12.08.08
Wisdom oozes from the cultured fingers of Mulgrew Miller, a musician old enough to have worked with trumpeter Woody Shaw.... more

Don't get Vertigo up there! Bono gets a lift from his high heels

11.08.08
Diminutive rocker Bono reached new heights yesterday as he and his wife stepped out in equally high shoes.... more

Isaac Hayes, the composer of Shaft, dies aged 65 after being found slumped beside treadmill

10.08.08
Soul singer Isaac Hayes - who wrote the Shaft film soundtrack - died after being found unconscious by his wife beside a running treadmill at his home, it was revealed today.... more

Morgan Freeman divorcing wife of 24 years... days after car crash with a younger female companion

06.08.08
Morgan Freeman is getting a divorce from his wife of 24 years, according to US reports.... more

Pictured: The horrific car crash which nearly killed Morgan Freeman

04.08.08
The Oscar-winning star and a female passenger were cut free from the vehicle after it veered off the highway and flipped over several times before ending up in a ditch.... more

Mick Hucknall: Why I quit Simply Red for the blues

29.05.08
When Mick Hucknall was contemplating the most audacious about-turn of his pop career - last year's disbanding of Simply Red - he sought inspiration from a musical icon who had originally captured his imagination 30 years ago.... more

Jazzing up ancient songs

31.03.08
Born in Memphis Tennessee, Dee Dee Bridgewater has a strong, cool voice and independent spirit that is ideal for a jazz performance.... more

In the Mood for Clichés

21.02.08
Nobody acts badly in My Blueberry Nights, but the film is off-kilter and the screenplay doesn't communicate any real depth of feeling.... more

Chan marshals her forces for a triumph

02.05.07
Self-confessed stage fright sufferer Chan Marshall, who once put on the worst gig David Smyth had ever seen, performed a much improved show at the Forum.... more

African roots and rock

12.12.06
It's been a good year for African music and the outstanding line-up at the Roundhouse, featuring Amadou and Mariam, K'Naan and Ba Cissoko, summed the year up. ... more

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