Strictly come dancing 2018

Israeli choreographer Sharon Eyal is in residence at Bold Tendencies, the Peckham car park turned art gallery. The company’s presence amid the buzz of hipster nightlife makes sense, with work that carries echoes of the dancefloor, the dangerous edge of life after dark, and a co-director, Gai Behar, who is a former party producer. … [Read more...] about L-E-V: Parts of Love review – carnal desire without the come-on

The Bold, Young and Beautiful: Don Diamont of The Bold & The Beautiful as well as The Young And the Restless arrived with his stunning family including wife Cindy Ambuehl … [Read more...] about I did it! The Mentalist star Robin Tunney clutches her award on the red carpet as the Monte Carlo Festival comes to an end

Tavares’s animations are striking, his film thick with atmosphere, but this is an unfinished project (Tavares had a stroke during the creation). It’s admirable to try to create a modern fairytale on relevant themes, to explore new collaborators and mediums, but you need rigorous artistic direction underpinning the wild ambition. … [Read more...] about Aisha and Abhaya review – modern fairytale driven by dark techno

Many voters’ hearts will go with Nipsey Hussle, whose murder last year robbed the world of a skilful, soulful MC who united backpacker hip-hoppers and mainstream rap fans. Racks in the Middle also features Roddy Rich, who has broken through spectacularly over the last year. But the track pales next to two others here: DaBaby’s Suge is a slowly prowling piece of minimalism that makes Offset sound fussily overworked in comparison; it’s ridiculous that DaBaby isn’t up for best new artist. He is rather damaged goods after a series of run-ins with the law, however. That could hand Middle Child the win, on which J Cole raps as if he’s high-stepping across the surface of a lake, his triplet time full of balletic grace. … [Read more...] about Grammys 2020: who will win the big categories – and who should

But many of the characters are confused about how to tell their story. Knowing what you aren’t is not the same as knowing what you are. The characters aren’t certain what it means to be Native American. Some, like Dene Oxedene, are mixed race. Blue was adopted and brought up outside the community. Edwin Black was raised by his single white mother and doesn’t feel “Native enough”. Thomas Frank is half Native and half white, and thinks: “You’re from a people who took and took and took and took. And from a people taken. You were both and neither.” For Thomas this split is manifest in his white legs and brown arms and he wonders “what they were doing together on the same body, in the same bathtub”. … [Read more...] about There There by Tommy Orange review – Native American stories