Gordon Ramsay’s T5 restaurant - Plane Food - may be big on formality and portion control but by using a bit of brass neck there may be a better way to enjoy it.... more
Her spoof Lily Allen song on Radio 1 was mistaken for the real thing and her new TV series lampoons Amy Winehouse and Kate Moss - they deserve it, says comedy's latest star.... more
Thanks to Charles Dance's extraordinarily moving performance, Shadowlands does not seem a trite piece of religious pleading, even 17 years after its premiere.... more
Anne McElvoy talks to the director of Oscar-winning hit The Lives of Others, and asks him why a German film about the Stasi has been a global hit.... more
Two Renaissance masterpieces found in a pensioner's spare room after being lost for 200 years were sold for £1.7million - having previously been bought for £200. ... more
Radiohead drop hints, Tarantino has killer taste,
Natasha Bedingfield is back, and podcasts are soon to contain music. It's all happening, says David Smyth.... more
Weighed down with presents and exhausted? Few things are more tiring than Christmas shopping. Here are the best places to refuel while out and about.... more
Nina Raine's debut play about young Londoners has won her a coveted Evening Standard theatre award. Here she tells how years of hardship have finally paid off.... more
With their idols having just reached No 1 in the pop charts for the first time in a decade, Take That's fans camped out all night to meet the band.... more
Paul McCartney's Ecce Cor Meum has been eight years in the making. Any student composer could have knocked off a better hour's worth of music than this vacuous tosh in as many days.... more
There are plenty of laughs in Nicholas Hytner's and Alan Bennett's film of their stage hit about a group of sixth-formers. But it still worked better as a play.... more
The Mules' blend of barn dance, psychedelic whimsy and scratch funk can be difficult to warm to, but their exuberance was contagious at Bar Academy.... more
Music news: Swapping his guitar for a choir, the lyrics to Sir Paul McCartney's next album are in Latin. Despite this, the former Beatle is hoping his fans will sing along, even if they don't understand all the words. ... more
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