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Arts

  • Ensemble shot with the SCTV cast in 1970s clothes (big-collared open-neck shirts, nylon blouses, feathered hair), striking goofy poses

    Television
    ‘It really was the idiots in charge’: inside the TV sketch show that launched a generation of stars

    It influenced The Simpsons and sparked the careers of Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, John Candy and many others. Now this extraordinary Canadian series is finally getting its due
  • A blue-lit shot of Bombstrap frontperson Eva Kah onstage.

    Music
    The week’s best new tracks and the act you need to know: Dutch squat-punks Bombstrap’s uncompromising racket

  • Draga, protagonist of Black Tides Draga's Wake, played by Dominik Diamond

    Games
    After 50 years of playing video games, I’m finally starring in one

    Dominik Diamond

Talking points

  • Rachel Powers in her front room in the California house where Poltergeist was filmed in the 80s

    Film
    Experience: I live in the house from the 80s horror movie Poltergeist

  • Patrick Stewart in X-Men 2 (2003).

    Film
    Patrick Stewart brought gravitas and complexity to the screen, from Star Trek to X-Men

    Peter Bradshaw
  • A young person wearing headphones examines a CD case in a shop aisle

    Music
    ‘Algorithms make everything predictable’: why the CD is making a comeback

  • Regan, from The Exorcist, with pale scarred skin and white eyes, stares upward

    Film
    Exploding heads, mutant aliens and bursting chests: horror’s greatest special effects – ranked!

People

  • Skepta, in a beanie and jacket, stares intensely at the camera against a green backdrop

    Music
    ‘Ignorance towards immigration is horrible. It’s not British’: Skepta on his long-awaited return – and his anger at the racist right

  • LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - February 13, 2022: Sir Patrick Stewart, OBE, 81, poses for a portrait at his home in Los Angeles. CREDIT: Philip Cheung for The Guardian

    Television
    Patrick Stewart, Star Trek and X-Men actor and acclaimed thespian, dies aged 86

  • Elke Sommer, with voluminous blonde hair, looks over her bare shoulder at the camera

    Film
    Elke Sommer, prolific German star of A Shot in the Dark and And Then There Were None, dies aged 85

  • A man with short brown hair looking into the camera with trees and sky behind him

    Music
    ​‘He buckled. I could hear his bass ringing out ...’ The luminous rise and tragic end of US alt heroes Morphine

The big picture

  • Dramatic black and white facial portrait of Patrick Stewart

    Patrick Stewart – a life in pictures

    The acclaimed, award-winning star of stage and screen has died at the age of 86. He leaves behind celebrated roles in Star Trek and X-Men as well as a long career in theatre
    Gallery21

Reviews

  • Australian artist Sampa the Great holding a guitar.

    Music
    Sampa the Great: Nu Zamrock – a full-circle moment for a world-class act

  • Tom Blyth and Nick Blaemire in A Few Good Men

    Stage
    A Few Good Men – Aaron Sorkin’s legal drama makes unwelcome return to stage

  • Two men stand back to back outside, one in a military uniform and the other in a football uniform carrying a ball

    Film
    The Mosquito Bowl – Netflix mixes football, war and cliches in slick by-the-numbers saga

  • Night Plane game screen shows a figure in the aisle of a plane with text onscreen reading 'Hey Bestie You Gotta Run! Ruuun!

    Games
    Night Plane – join the jumbo jet to hell in this indie horror head trip

Pictures & video

  • Koko and Taylor, two shaggy dogs, stand before a smiling couple seated on a bench

    Metropolis: more than four decades of street photography – in pictures

    Gallery13
  • A person with curly blonde hair kneels on the floor in a pale draped top, lit by red and yellow light

    Art
    ‘Approaching desire with curiosity’: the many facets of Black masculinity – in pictures

    Gallery10
  • Shoshi Doi - Fashion student土井翔司 - ファッションスクール学生

    Art
    Take a stroll between Japan’s past and present – in pictures

    Gallery13
  • Max Dupain, Mother and Child 1952.

    Art
    Light, camera … razor blades?! How photography became an art form – in pictures

    Gallery15

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