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3 February 2025

  • New Start After 60 John Ingall<br>For Guardian G2 New Start After 60. Pictured is retired farmer John Ingall, 74 with a collection of his glazed Gourds that he makes at his home in Leamington Spa. On the left is a stained glass mannequin of his wife Jane. A gourd is a member of the cucumber vegetable family that he grows at home and then turns into stained glass art. Photo by Fabio De Paola

    A new start after 60
    A new start after 60: I wanted to retire from farming – but never dreamed I would become an artist

    On holiday in the American south, John Ingall discovered that one of the local crops was being turned into remarkable works of art. So he went home, grew his own gourds and set about transforming them – and himself
  • Succession: Tom Morley played Andrew “Doddy” Dodds, the waiter killed when Kendall crashed.

    ‘They deep-fried my head!’ Stars of Succession, The Sopranos, Spooks and more on their shocking TV deaths

    How does it feel to be brutally killed off on screen? Actors from hit shows including Buffy, Line of Duty and Cucumber relive their shootings, stabbings, bludgeonings by golf club – and worse
  • Director Coralie Fargeat

    ‘I was trying to explode the idea of beauty’: Coralie Fargeat on The Substance, women and Hollywood

    Her gruesome horror has won her an Oscar nomination – and given its star Demi Moore’s career new life. But did taking down the patriarchy have to be so gory?

2 February 2025

  • Keeley Hawes as Cassandra Austen in BBC One’s Miss Austen.

    TV review
    Miss Austen review – Keeley Hawes is magnificent in this absolute treat of a period drama

    Arguably the greatest act of literary vandalism in history becomes masterly TV, as we see Cassandra Austen destroy thousands of her sister Jane’s letters following her death – out of love
  • Emma Beddington

    Why do we go to coffee shops? It’s not just for the hot drinks

    Emma Beddington
    Starbucks wants people to stop hanging out in its US branches without buying anything. But sometimes we all need somewhere to sit that isn’t home, writes Emma Beddington
  • Man wearing headphones

    Quiet, please! The remarkable power of silence – for our bodies and our minds

    Our increasingly noisy world has been linked to cardiovascular disease, anxiety and depression, as well as hearing loss. But that’s not the only reason we need more peace and quiet in our lives

31 January 2025

  • Worlds he constructs are consistently inviting … Mike.

    Mike: Showbiz! review – a master rap craftsman building his own world

    These fleeting fragments of the rapper-producer’s itinerant life, delivered in a lackadaisical yet focused style, prove he deserves all the acclaim he gets
  • Singing as the oats baked around them … Cynefin.

    Folk album of the month
    Cynefin: Shimli review – this Welsh folk music is a quietly political antidote to the modern age

    Singer Owen Shiers combines traditional ballads, musical settings of poems, and originals built on stories collected from rural west Walians, all sung in Welsh

    • ‘Women’s rage is real. Mostly we turn it on ourselves’: Neko Case on songwriting, survival – and her mother’s faked death

    • TV tonight
      TV tonight: ghost-busting on a haunted farm in Bury with Danny Robins

    • Big knickers, bad decisions and old bats: Renée Zellweger on the return of Bridget Jones

30 January 2025

  • Comic book artist Guillaume Singelin once again provides visuals … Citizen Sleeper 2.

    Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector review – we’re putting together a crew

  • A passion project … Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

    Khachaturian: Piano Concerto album review – giant Technicolor works given the big-screen treatment

  • Claes Bang smiling and wearing a green corduroy suit

    The reader interview
    Claes Bang: ‘I think I have more of a sense of humour in English than I do in Danish’

  • James Brown at Hammersmith Odeon, London, England, 23 May 1985.

    Ranked
    Soul, sermonising and wrestling Satan: James Brown’s 20 best albums – ranked!

  • Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory album review – going goth to confront our grim world

  • Why do so many people dream of being dog groomers? Haven’t they seen the toll it can take?

    Adrian Chiles

  • My week with a man bag: am I cool enough for winter’s hottest trend?

  • Saturday Night review – unbearably self-indulgent sketch of an iconic comedy show

  • TV tonight
    TV tonight: a schmaltzy road trip romcom set in Spain

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