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New Orleans is recovering its old spirit

28.10.09

Despite the ravages of Hurricane Katrina four years ago Lindsay Johns finds that New Orleans is well on the path to recovery... more

Katrina is powerful yet lacks a real sense of urgency

07.09.09

Entering Katrina at The Bargehouse on Oxo Tower Wharf, one expects to be plunged into the hurricane that strafed the Louisiana coast at the end of August 2005... more

Naked chef Jamie Oliver won't dare to bare

12.08.09

He was once the Naked Chef - but it seems Jamie Oliver did not have the cheek to bare his bum for a TV promo. ... more

Audience to flee floods as South Bank play recreates the horror of Katrina

11.08.09

New theatre show is to recreate the horrors of Hurricane Katrina in a disused Thames-side warehouse... more

BG to spend �1.3 billion on Texas gas venture

30.06.09

Global gas explorer BG is spending more than $1.3billion (�778 million) to help produce some of the world's most inaccessible resources under the US... more

The Thames delivers up a ghoulish cargo

22.05.09

I walk beside the Thames almost every day - through Battersea Park - keeping an eye open for any corpses floating past... more

Celebrating the small and near

02.12.08

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Britney hospital dash after son has seizure

10.11.08

Britney Spears has been keeping a vigil at her son's hospital bedside after he suffered a seizure during a family reunion.... more

Saints chief blasts 'poor' Wembley

29.10.08

New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton says improvements must be made before another NFL game is played in London... more

Race for the White House ain�t over

29.10.08

With less than a week until Americans go to the polls, only a last-minute comeback can save John McCain... more

Insurers face shock hurricane bills rise

20.10.08

Insurance: Insurers will have to pay out many billions of pounds more than expected for claims from the last hurricane season, two leading players warned... more

Ritual in the bayou for The Brothers Size

15.10.08

Tarell Alvin McCraney, a young American, currently has not one but two plays on at the Young Vic. The latest is The Brothers Size.... more

Red and Brown Water crafts hit from myths

10.10.08

No piece of total theatre could have better lived up to the promise of its title than Tarell Alvin McCraney's In The Red and Brown Water.... more

Millions flee New Orleans as Gustav bears down

01.09.08

New Orleans is a rain-lashed ghost city, with just a handful of remaining citizens hiding in their homes as they await Hurricane Gustav... more

US fears push prices lower

05.08.08

Oil fell below $120 a barrel for the first time in three months as US consumer spending falls ... more

Scoop up the free theatre

31.07.08

You get a spectacular historial riverside setting at The Scoop. The actors perform whatever the weather. And it's free.... more

Terence Blanchard blows up a storm

16.07.08

Terence Blanchard doesn't slash and burn. His band makes powerful points and intercommunicates on a far deeper plane than the average.... more

Back to work: Auntie Britney returns to LA

21.06.08

After a short visit back to Louisiana to welcome the latest member of the Spears' clan, Britney has arrived back in LA to get on with being a formerly troubled starlet.... more

The next big thing: FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE

12.06.08

Florence, according to her label, makes 'the kind of music that Lily or Kate would make if they had grown up in a cage full of snakes in the basement of a Louisiana funeral home'.... more

Great Balls of Scandal: How Jerry Lee Lewis' marriage to a 13-year-old wrecked his career

23.05.08

Fifty years ago this week, Jerry Lee Lewis arrived in Britain and revealed his young companion was his 13-year-old wife, Myra. It destroyed the rock'n'roll sensation and set the pattern for decades of pop excess... more

Pregnant Jamie Lynn Spears, 16, shows off her new engagement ring

01.04.08

Britney Spears' 16-year-old pregnant sister Jamie Lynn showed off her sparkling new ring yesterday following news of her engagement last week... more

Three into two won't go

14.11.07

At times The Brothers Size is frustratingly vague and digressive. But the layered intensity of Tarell Alvin McCraney's writing and the quality of the performances make it worthwhile.... more

DVDs of the week

04.09.07

The week's top DVDs are led by an example of British film at its best in This Is England.... more

Failing to reap the rewards

19.04.07

The Reaping gets sillier and sillier by the minute, with only the loud and garish special effects to keep you awake, says Derek Malcolm.... more

Delius out of Africa

13.04.07

Koanga, Delius' 1904 opera set on a Louisiana plantation, is no masterpiece, says Nick Kimberley. But it is more than a mere curiosity. ... more

Critic's choice: top 5 plays

02.01.07

It's your last chance to catch the award-winning Caroline or Change and Much Ado About Nothing at the Novello, plus, satirical comedy A Family Affair makes a terrific impression.... more

Penn's politico makes no sense

26.10.06

Sean Penn stars as corrupt populist Louisiana governor Willie Stark in All The King's Men but his performance gets somewhat lost in translation.... more

Jude is back on form

11.09.06

All The King's Men showed up for this year's Toronto Film Festival. As well as the movie of that name, in which Jude Law put in his best performance for years, the festival's guest list outgunned Cannes and Venice.... more

An old charmer delivers

03.08.06

Jazz review: No synths, samples or electronica were heard in this set from US trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. Instead, says Jack Massarik, the audience got pure acoustic jazz, but of typically wide range.... more

Tough act to swallow

02.08.06

Restaurant review: Hawksmoor sounds like cocktail heaven. But it's astonishing that a place so adroit in the alchemy of mixed drinks should fall down so badly in the simple business of grilling meat, says Nick Curtis.... more