1+ hour, 11+ min ago  (983+ words) Terrorists are monsters. Or so we are told " pure evil. Well, it makes a good story. Even if it isn't completely true. Actually, most political assassins are quite ordinary young men, often troubled, often vulnerable, unsure of themselves and so…...

2+ hour, 38+ min ago  (611+ words) The Arts Desk Supergirl review - flying low Superman's party girl cousin earns her stripes underwhelmingly Modesty is the last refuge of fantasy franchises once too big to fail. Much like The Mandalorian and Grogu and Captain America: Brave New World,…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (504+ words) The Arts Desk Storey, RNCM Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Schuldt, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review - bright hopes on show Distinction and emotional impact from young musicians and an exuberant maestro The Royal Northern College of Music put four of its brightest…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (684+ words) If screwball noir is a subgenre (encompassing Something Wild, Fargo, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Wild at Heart, After Hours), then Anders Thomas Jensen is its Danish proponent. The Last Viking is a highwire act in which throwaway comic barbs delivered…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (589+ words) Muse are one of the best advertisements in the world for silliness. When the Devon trio came along in the late Nineties, they found a niche for people who wished Radiohead had kept writing big rock songs instead of tinkering…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (871+ words) The Arts Desk The Truth, Apollo Theatre review - how much honesty can a marriage withstand? Florian Zeller weaves a clever web of deceit around four Parisians French playwright Florian Zeller's 2011 four-hander about infidelity and the deceptions it entails, translated by…...

5+ day, 23+ min ago  (892+ words) During the calm evening before an apocalyptic London storm, trumpet virtuoso H'kan Hardenberger delighted the Barbican audience with not only the advertised two showcases for his peerless qualities of tone and expression, but a third as well. Neither Haydn nor…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (578+ words) The World Cup is everywhere in Scotland these days, even among the country's gigging venues. Rolled up Saltires were visible on the balconies of the O2 Academy, a reminder that the Glasgow venue is hosting watch parties for the national team's…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (529+ words) Beginning with "The Ground Above" and closing with "Otherside", there's an ambient, otherwordly, disembodied feel to Beth Orton's new album on Partisan Records, a follow-up to 2022's self-produced Weather Alive, which had its own spectral, dreamlike airs. "The Ground Above…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (155+ words) Daniela Mars: Protected Daniela Mars (flutes) (Records from Mars)" Senza Parole: Italian arias for horn by Puccini, Verdi, Rossini and others Felix Klieser (horn and director), I Solisti di Pavia (Berlin Classics) Wishing Tree Gesualdo Six/Owain Park (Hyperion) Songs…...