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  • 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards - Show<br>LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 02: Beyoncé accepts the Best Country Album award for "COWBOY CARTER" onstage during the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 02, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

    Music
    Grammys 2025: the winners, the losers, the performances – live

  • Two people shake hands in front of a third person in a scene from The Night Agent

    Television
    ‘Must-have genre’ for uncertain times: why spy thrillers have taken over TV

    Experts say success of shows such as The Night Agent and Prime Target reflects growing public distrust of the state
  • a man looking at camera

    Books
    Salman Rushdie set to testify as attempted murder trial gets under way

    Hadi Matar, 26, accused of stabbing author 10 times in case likely to draw world’s media to tiny upstate New York town
  • A man with a loudhailer stands on a raised platform with other men, addressing a large crowd, with a high-rise housing estate int he background

    Film
    ‘I remember the exhilaration of the crowd and chanting’: artist Steve McQueen on his experience of resistance and protest

  • Bill &amp; Paul Allen at teletype machine, Lakeside yearbook photo (1969-1970) Bill Gates on right

    Books
    Source Code by Bill Gates – growing pains of a computer geek

  • Untitled, from the series Something Is Going on Here by Alexander Gronsky.

    Art and design
    The big picture: a seemingly innocent winter’s day in Moscow

  • Sharon Van Etten - press photo 2022 - photographed by Ryan Pfluger

    Music
    Sharon Van Etten: ‘Weirdest thing I have done for love? I started watching sports’

Talking points

  • Bridget Jones, played by Renée Zellweger, rests her head on the shoulder of one of her new love interests, Roxster, Leo Woodall, in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.

    Film
    Is it time to stop bashing Bridget Jones? Hapless everywoman has evolved – and so have we

  • The cover of the novel, I Who Have Never Known Men, by Jacqueline Harpman

    Books
    I Who Have Never Known Men: the lost dystopia finding new readers after buzz on TikTok

  • several Grammy awards displayed on a table

    Music
    2025 Grammys will celebrate music but also raise money for LA fire relief

  • Bear Grylls with Sam Wollaston.

    Television
    ‘Do you want a little experience of stalking?’: what happened when Bear Grylls offered to ‘hunt’ me in a jungle

People

  • Kaya Scodelario.

    Film
    On my radar: Kaya Scodelario’s cultural highlights

  • Yuri Shibuichi, Anouska Sokolow and Tim Curtis, AKA Honeyglaze.

    Music
    One to watch: Honeyglaze

    • Louis Armstrong performs on the Kraft Music Hall TV show at NBC Studios in Brooklyn in June 1967 in New York.

      Music
      Bullets and blues: Louis Armstrong’s difficult upbringing revealed after discovery of family police records

    • Hayley Atwell

      Film
      Hayley Atwell on theatre, Tom Cruise and the tabloids: ‘I’ve reached the point where I’m OK if I’m not liked’

    • Lily Collins pictured at the 2024 Baftas in London

      Television
      Actor Lily Collins welcomes birth of first child by surrogacy

The big picture

  • Ke Huy Quan.

    Film
    Post your questions for Ke Huy Quan

    As the Oscar-winning Indiana Jones, Goonies and Everything Everywhere All at Once actor takes his first leading role in decades, he will answer your questions on an extraordinary life and comeback

Reviews

  • a woman in a pink dress tied to a chair and a man sitting opposite her

    Film
    Companion – empty sci-fi thriller short-circuits too quickly

  • Teddy Swims, in pinkish-mauve hat and T-shirt, looking straight to camera.

    Music
    Teddy Swims: I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2) – extra-size emotion

    • Bill Gates in 1984

      Books
      Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates – refreshingly frank

    • a woman wearing a black dress dances with a man in a white suit at an event

      Film
      You’re Cordially Invited – Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell carry fun comedy

    • a woman in a grey jumper

      Film
      Opus – John Malkovich plays an evil pop star in a silly horror dud

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Pictures & video

  • Untitled, from the series Something Is Going on Here by Alexander Gronsky.

    The big picture
    A seemingly innocent winter’s day in Moscow

    Alexander Gronsky’s photograph of families in the snow hints at something more dubious
  • Views of the Golden Gate Bridge by Arthur Drooker.

    Art and design
    New perspectives on the Golden Gate Bridge – in pictures

  • The face of a man holding a flower to his lips

    The Guardian picture essay
    AI takes centre stage at Photo Brussels 2025

  • Art and design
    New Banksy museum opens in Madrid

  • Wim Wenders
    Light fantastic: the road trip that inspired Paris, Texas – in pictures

  • Architecture
    Radical statement or eyesore? Japan’s divisive brutalist buildings – in pictures

  • Conflict
    ‘Devastated by war’: Ukraine’s battle scars – in pictures

  • Photos of the day
    Lunar new year preparations and a rage room: photos of the weekend

  • Photography
    Let it glow: fireflies illuminating Japanese woodlands – in pictures

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