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Harper Lee's hometown entertains grand plans for Mockingbird tourismLocal businesses led by the late novelist’s lawyer reveal ‘bigger vision’ for Monroeville, including building some of the houses in the story -
Chicago's new generation of bluesmenRolling Stones’ new cover album reflects on Chicago’s great blues players of the past, as current scene flourishes and reflects on city’s violence in new ways
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Shrink-wrapped in by its own nostalgiaSluggish songs, a plodding plot and a lack of urgency makes this adaptation of Chazz Palminteri’s yarn of gangsters and forbidden fruit, frigid and forgettable -
How literature teaches us to understand 'the other'In an era of fear and division, fiction plays a vital role in dramatising difference and encouraging empathy
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people
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The artists who made it huge without radio supportThanks to Spotify, Apple Music and co, musicians such as Glass Animals and Anne-Marie can go global without radio support. But can they convert streaming stats into fans?
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If I stay silent, nothing will changeShe’s been threatened with rape and was beaten in the street, but Paradise Sorouri refuses to stop singing about the horrific injustices inflicted upon Afghan women
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the big picture
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Buzzcocks, Sex Pistols, the Clash and fansIn lustrous monochrome images, photographers Kevin Cummins and Ian Dickson captured punk in all its nihilistic glory. Their images of Sid Vicious, Poly Styrene, Vivienne Westwood and the Damned are now on show in Brighton
reviews
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John Legend: Darkness and Light – musical weirdness and lyrical bleaknessEmulating his idol Marvin Gaye, the singer has fashioned the personal and the political into a heartfelt musical statement
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pictures & video
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Iron men come alive for Shakespeare's A Winter's TaleWriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce and director Carl Hunter reimagine Shakespeare’s late tragedy in an otherwordly film set amongst the statues of Antony Gormley’s installation Another Life on Crosby beach in Liverpool
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Art from the Arctic, space and beyondFrom an Arctic expedition to working in a studio in the school of biology and environmental science at University College Dublin, Siobhan McDonald collaborates with researchers to broach subjects at the edges of current scientific knowledge
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The style iconDiscovered by a magazine editor as a teenager, Brigitte Bardot became one of the most iconic faces, models and actors of the 1950s and 1960s and a muse for Dior, Balmain and Pierre Cardin
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The church brigade leader giving Cape Town kids hope‘Being in Ruthy’s band shows children there’s more to life than township violence’
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An alternative view of Brazil's citiesWhile much of the world has focused on Brazil’s sporting, political and economic news, photographer Tomer Ifrah has spent the past year capturing small events of daily life in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo
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Frank Sinatra, the Beatles and MC HammerTo commemorate the 75th anniversary of Capitol Records in 2017, publisher Taschen delved into the company’s photographic archive for a new book that documents the label’s decades of success. From the studio to the streets of Hollywood, here’s a glimpse of Capitol’s 20th- and 21st-century evolution
Best TV of 2016 … that you probably didn't watch