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New Orleans is recovering its old spirit

2009-10-28T10:12:09Z

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

Katrina is powerful yet lacks a real sense of urgency

2009-09-06T23:00:00Z

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

Naked chef Jamie Oliver won't dare to bare

2009-08-12T14:05:16Z

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

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

2009-08-11T06:55:48Z

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

BG to spend �1.3 billion on Texas gas venture

2009-06-30T07:40:47Z

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

The Thames delivers up a ghoulish cargo

2009-05-22T07:36:27Z

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

Celebrating the small and near

2008-12-02T10:42:38Z

Britney hospital dash after son has seizure

2008-11-10T12:28:31Z

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

Saints chief blasts 'poor' Wembley

2008-10-29T15:13:10Z

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

Race for the White House ain�t over

2008-10-29T11:06:01Z

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

Insurers face shock hurricane bills rise

2008-10-20T08:49:08Z

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

Ritual in the bayou for The Brothers Size

2008-10-14T23:00:00Z

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

Red and Brown Water crafts hit from myths

2008-10-09T23:00:00Z

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.

Millions flee New Orleans as Gustav bears down

2008-09-01T09:38:09Z

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

US fears push prices lower

2008-08-05T11:54:20Z

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

Scoop up the free theatre

2008-07-30T23:00:00Z

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

Terence Blanchard blows up a storm

2008-07-15T23:00:00Z

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

Back to work: Auntie Britney returns to LA

2008-06-21T19:15:31Z

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.

The next big thing: FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE

2008-06-12T21:44:44Z

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'.

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

2008-05-23T19:09:33Z

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

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

2008-04-01T11:15:05Z

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

Three into two won't go

2007-11-14T00:00:00Z

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.

DVDs of the week

2007-09-03T23:00:00Z

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

Failing to reap the rewards

2007-04-18T23:00:00Z

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

Delius out of Africa

2007-04-12T23:00:00Z

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

Critic's choice: top 5 plays

2007-01-02T10:09:15Z

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.

Penn's politico makes no sense

2006-10-25T23:00:00Z

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

Jude is back on form

2006-09-11T08:54:23Z

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.

An old charmer delivers

2006-08-02T23:00:00Z

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.

Tough act to swallow

2006-08-01T23:00:00Z

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.