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  • The 67th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles<br>Kendrick Lamar, winner of the Record Of The Year, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, Best Music Video, and Song Of The Year awards, poses in the press room during the 67th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, U.S., February 2, 2025. REUTERS/Mike Blake

    Music
    Grammys 2025: the winners, the losers, the performances – as it happened

  • Succession: Tom Morley played Andrew “Doddy” Dodds, the waiter killed when Kendall crashed.

    Television
    ‘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

    Film
    ‘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?
  • 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

  • a man looking at camera

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

  • 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

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

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

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

  • 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’

The big picture

  • Views of the Golden Gate Bridge by Arthur Drooker.

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

    A series by American photographer Arthur Drooker sets out to defamiliarise the great California landmark

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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