arts
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Who will win in the rock and pop categories?Adele, Beyoncé, Drake, Justin Bieber and country singer Sturgill Simpson are battling for best album and David Bowie’s Blackstar performance could get a nod -
Kellyanne Conway is a 'truth scarecrow'Comics, including Seth Meyers and Trevor Noah, discussed Trump’s counselor, his criticism of the judiciary system and his apparent lack of competency
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John Wick: Chapter 2 is a shameful example of Hollywood gun pornographyThe sequel to the Keanu Reeves sleeper hit might be efficiently slick but its obsession with weaponry leaves a nasty taste in the mouth -
The seven most wonderfully ridiculous momentsThere’s plenty to enjoy in the sex-filled sequel: intimately inserted Ben Wa balls, an oddly placed Vin Diesel poster and something called a spreader bar
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Spotify's Daniel Ek named most powerful person in the music businessThe chairman and CEO of the streaming service displaces Universal’s boss at the top of Billboard’s Power 100
people
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Ryan Adams discusses his Summer of '69 humiliation: 'I was so angry'Singer has written an article discussing the night he confronted a heckler who was demanding a Bryan Adams hit
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Brexit is too big for the stageAs Daniel Radcliffe appears in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Tom Stoppard remembers the dandy who wrote it 50 years ago, picks his favourite play – and reveals why he’s less interested in dazzling audiences than making them cry
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the big picture
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Jan Cieslikiewicz's search for orderPolish photographer Jan Cieslikiewicz went from maths at Harvard to a Wall Street trading job – and then left it behind to embrace uncertainty
reviews
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The Lego Batman Movie – funny, exciting and packed with gagsThis sophisticated pop culture adventure set in a world of Lego bricks just might rescue DC Comics’ battered reputation
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Django – jazz great's war story fails to find its rhythmHe jammed for the Nazis and aided the resistance, but this tale of guitar genius Django Reinhardt’s war falls flat due to slack tempo and poor characterisation
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pictures & video
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A boy with a gun at Michael X's HQ‘He was only 10 but I was scared. He handled the gun with a sense of purpose’
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Obama's photographer takes subtle digs at Trump on InstagramPete Souza, the former chief photographer for Barack Obama in the White House, appears to be attempting to troll Donald Trump on Instagram
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Queen of soul's career in picturesSinger Aretha Franklin has announced she will retire – after recording one final album with Stevie Wonder – 61 years on from the release of her first record. The Queen of Soul revealed her plans on a Detroit TV channel, saying: ‘I must tell you, I am retiring this year’
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Sofia Coppola returns with star-studded thriller The BeguiledColin Farrell, Nicole Kidman and Kirsten Dunst star in a remake of the 1971 film, from the Oscar-winning creator of Lost in Translation
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The city that might have beenFrom the offshore Santa Monica freeway to a mini Las Vegas with pyramids and the Parthenon, Greg Goldin and Sam Lubell look at the LA that never happened
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The incomparable Gordon ParksA new book celebrates Gordon Parks’ images of a racially divided south, high fashion, and poverty in New York City
'Is it like Girls?' How I found recognition and relief in Brooklyn's TV daughters