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Music transforms kids and towns in remote area of Bolivia
Inspired by a biannual baroque festival and the legacy of missionaries, young people join choirs and take up the violin and Vivaldi in parishes across the country's eastern lowlands.
Noteworthy: The best in recent kids' CDs
From Brian Setzer's orchestral fun with classical music clichés to a Parents' Choice Award winner by Dr. Noize, these albums will delight young ears.
Noteworthy: A roundup of recent pop releases
Neil Diamond sheds the schmaltz; Lenny Kravitz – inspired throwback or tired mimic?; Madonna delivers on dance; Santogold's belated debut.
Noteworthy: A roundup of recent jazz releases
Former Coltrane pianist McCoy Tyner returns for an elegant romp, Bill Dixon's all-star orchestra explodes, and Nicole Mitchell does the unthinkable: make flute-led jazz a force to be reckoned with.
'The Fall': Tarsem Singh's take on a complex friendship
Some of the set pieces are ravishing, more often they're ravishingly clumsy.
'What Happens in Vegas': Annoying, and incompetent
Kutcher, Diaz comedy tries to get by on star power where none really exists.
'The Tracey Fragments': Angst in a thousand shards
Ellen Page comes through with a performance despite distracting directorial stylings.
'Speed Racer': out of gas
Wachowski Brothers' movie tries for a family-values focus but veers into frenetic, sometimes cheesy effects.
The last 'Parandero'
In Belize, musician Paul Nabor preserves an indigenous sound – and awaits a successor.
Beijing not alone when it comes to Olympic disputes
Controversy – from Black Power salutes to boycotts – is often what's remembered.
Cricket's Indian revolution: fast play and more pay
The Indian Premier League is altering the game and pulling in the best players from around the world.
Kazakhstan seeks identity on the big screen
The Central Asian nation throws Borat a counterpunch.
Turbo-folk music is the sound of Serbia feeling sorry for itself
A product of the criminal Milosevic era, its odd nostalgia is the soundtrack to a new wave of nationalism.
No escaping politics at L.A. exhibition of Mexican-American art
LACMA's rare display of art post the Chicano movement stresses themes of illegal immigration and discrimination.
Theater: Many faces of Macbeth
Shakespeare's 'Scottish Play' meets an array of modern interpretations.
Behind this month's staging of a 'lost' Shakespeare play
'Cardenio,' a seldom-staged work attributed by some to the Bard, opens May 10 in Cambridge, Mass.
A fight without finish
In 'Redbelt,' David Mamet and jujitsu come together, and the result is a draw.
A entirely predictable farce
Patrick Dempsey goes into charm overload in 'Made of Honor.'
An iron-clad hero lands with a thud
A poignant performance by Robert Downey Jr. can't quite save 'Iron Man.'
A childhood tale with charm
Authentic 'Son of Rambow' displays an understanding of what it's like to be a kid.
Back-to-basics biking movement takes hold in cities
'Fixie' riders, seeking adventure, dart through streets with bravura and no brakes.
Tubegazing: 'Carrier'
PBS's monumental 10-hour documentary about the USS Nimitz goes below decks during its recent deployment to the Gulf.
At Abu Ghraib, Morris questions 'Standard Operating Procedure'
The renowned documentarian interviews the US soldiers who tortured Iraqi prisoners and reveals the incriminating photographs no one was supposed to see.
New in theaters
SNL alums Tina Fey and Amy Poehler look for surrogate laughs in 'Baby Mama,' Burt Reynolds gets a raw 'Deal,' and 'Roman de Gare' adds a French twist to the serial-killer genre.
Fast Times at 'Baghdad High'
The documentary, due to première at the Tribeca Film Festival, follows four teenagers trying to eke out a normal life inside a war zone.
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Judge ends McCartney's marriage
A High Court judge pronounces a decree nisi, ending the marriage of Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills.
Iron Man beats box office rivals
Iron Man maintains its grip on the North American box office chart, taking $50m in its second weekend.
Rushdie tipped for Booker treble
Novelist Salman Rushdie is favourite to win the Booker of Booker prizes to add to his two existing awards.
Techno band topples Madonna
German techno group Scooter knock Madonna off the number one spot in the UK album chart.
Bafta glory for Channel 4's Boy A
Channel 4 drama Boy A wins three Bafta Craft Awards, which celebrates the work of those behind the scenes of TV shows.
The Kooks close Big Weekend
Radio 1's Big Weekend in Maidstone ends with an energetic headline set by Brighton band The Kooks.
Parton mourns gospel star Rambo
Dolly Parton leads the tributes to gospel singer Dottie Rambo, who has died in a tour bus crash aged 74.
Loaded gun found in actor's bag
Actor Dennis Farina is arrested after a loaded handgun was found in his suitcase at Los Angeles airport.
Lohan 'not axed' from film
Lindsay Lohan refuses a role in a movie about murderer Charles Manson due to other commitments, her publicist says.
Nesbitt to play Troubles victim
James Nesbitt is to star in a new drama about the Northern Ireland Troubles.
Uma backlash in cosmetics row
US actress Uma Thurman countersues French cosmetics firm Lancome for $15m over the use of her image in ads.
Turkish soprano Gencer dies
Renowned Turkish Soprano Leyla Gencer has died at her home in Milan, Italy, at the age of 80.
DMX on animal and drugs charges
US rapper DMX is arrested on suspicion of animal cruelty and drug possession following a raid on his home, police say.
Young musician win for Peter, 12
A trombonist becomes the youngest winner in the history of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition.
Bob Dylan artwork to go on show
Works of art by US singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will be seen for the first time in the UK in June.
Howerd's home goes up for sale
The former home of Frankie Howerd goes on sale with items of memorabilia as optional extras.
Fry: BBC cuts would be 'tragic'
Actor Stephen Fry defends the BBC, saying it would be a "tragedy" to "emasculate" it.
BBC 'kept charity money'
The BBC is to broadcast an apology after admitting a subsidiary firm kept ÂŁ106,000 from charity phone-ins.
Sopranos writer signs movie deal
David Chase, creator of TV drama The Sopranos, signs a deal to write, produce and direct his first feature film.
Lessing: Nobel win a 'disaster'
Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing says winning the award has stopped her being able to write.
Rowling wins court photo appeal
Harry Potter author JK Rowling wins a court appeal seeking to ban the publication of a picture of her son.
ÂŁ2m sculpture designs revealed
Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger is among five artists shortlisted for a ÂŁ2 million landmark on a hilltop in Kent.
Record price for Monet painting
A Monet painting sells for more than $41m (ÂŁ20.9m) in New York, breaking the record for the French impressionist.
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Television: Take My Wife. Please. I’ll Take Yours.
A son of the suburbs, inspired by his parents’ adventures, takes TV back to the ’70s with “Swingtown.”
Film: Mike Tyson Film Takes a Swing at His Old Image
Mike Tyson, his days as heavyweight champion long behind him, finds himself on an unlikely path forward as a new documentary about his life makes its premiere at Cannes.
Music: Memoirs of a Girl From the East Country (O.K., Queens)
In her memoir, Bob Dylan’s former girlfriend looks back at their time in Greenwich Village in the 1960s with affection.
Music: City Opera’s Man in Waiting, Thinking Ahead
Construction disruption and a leadership change mean nervous times at the people’s opera.
Dance: Under Analysis: The Psychology of Tudor’s Ballets
Performances for Antony Tudor’s centenary will explore repression and denial as well as his steps.
Art: How to Think Like a Surreal Cartoonist
In her two-day writer’s workshop, Lynda Barry sings, tells jokes, acts out characters and even dances a creditably sensual hula.
Film: 50 Years of Dizzy, Courtesy of Hitchcock
When “Vertigo” hit screens a half-century ago, it was not at all what audiences had come to expect from the master of suspense.
How to Deal With Midlife: Keep Dancing
It’s been four years since Bill Irwin last presented a full evening in clown mode. He’s ready for more.
Playlist: Quiet Jazz, Roaring Noise, Hip-Hop Wizardry
Releases by Jonah Jones, Bennie Maupin, Burning Star Core, Steinski and Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra.
Television: A Deadly Day on the Top of the World
A documentary features survivors of a tragic climb on Mount Everest.
Cinematic Life in Oslo (Where Else?)
“Reprise” shows some parallels between its characters and the two men behind the movie.
Film: Special Effects From the Real World
Tarsem, the director of “The Fall,” didn’t need computergenerated dazzle. Just ask the swimming elephant.
Classical Recordings: Songs of Tragedy, Triumph and Hope
Reviews of performances by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, London Sinfonietta and Anne Sofie von Otter.
The Play Is Over, but the Party Lingers On
Some of Off Broadway’s most prominent houses are moving beyond the usual slate of plays, musicals and talkbacks.
Letter: Women in Film: It’s Not Bias, It’s Logic
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Letter: Seeing and Believing
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Letter: George Lois: Ignoring the Photographer
To the Editor:.
Correction: When Off Meets Off Off, Creative Ferment Is On
Correction: Terrifying, Not Unlike Your Real Life
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The week's radio choices
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Telegraph iPlayer pick: Wild China (BBC2)
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Telegraph iPlayer pick: Russia: a Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby (BBC2)
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Saturday's iPlayer choices
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Sunday's iPlayer choices
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Why is there no Vaughan Williams memorial?
John Bridcut, who has made a new documentary about the composer 50 years after his death, suggests the ideal place to commemorate him.
Prometeo: tradition makes way for innocuous aural massage
Geoffrey Norris reviews Prometeo at Festival Hall.
Monday's TV & radio choices
By Noam Friedlander, Catherine Gee, Tessa Gibbs, Clive Morgan & Gillian Reynolds
Weekend on television:
By James Walton
Wild China: behind the bamboo curtain
Until now, much of China's stunning wildlife has been out of bounds to Western film crews. Producer Phil Chapman describes how the BBC's 'Wild China' team braved remote regions (and military hovercraft) in pursuit of pandas, rare tigers and spoonbills.
Ray Winstone: the brick
Ray Winstone's journey from amateur boxer to Indiana Jones sidekick was via a tough East End background, bankruptcy and hard drinking. So will Nigel Farndale survive 10 rounds with him?
Life with Dylan and Caitlin Thomas
Before the poet Dylan Thomas drank himself to death at the age of 39, he and his wife, Caitlin, had binged and brawled their way all around Britain. But as a new film about the couple reveals, they were not the only casualties of their excesses. By Kathryn Hughes.
Victorian erotica: the original cheeky girls
Ever wondered what our great grandparents got up to behind closed doors? A new collection of erotica leaves little doubt, says Guy Kennaway.
Lager and sweeties
Helen Brown reviews Revenant by Tristan Hughes
Return of the medieval pathologist
Susanna Yager reviews crime fiction
Alexandre Dumas from beyond the grave
Jonathan Bate reviews The Last Cavalier by Alexandre Dumas
Spy thriller set in post-war Berlin
Alastair Sooke reviews Pavel & I by Dan Vyleta
fun and fundamentalism in Cairo
Beth Jones reviews The End of Sleep by Rowan Somerville
A love letter to the sea
Melissa Katsoulis reviews Breath by Tim Winton
Paperback choice
White King And Red Queen; Medusa; A Late Dinner; Shane Warne; Dancing With Eva; Rant.
Literary Life
Mark Sanderson at large in a world of books
The curious history of Death
Wendy Moore reviews The Dying Game by Melanie King
Doris Lessing's rewriting of her parents' past
Caroline Moore reviews Alfred and Emily by Doris Lessing
How Bernardo Provenzano saved the Mafia
Harriet Paterson reviews Boss of Bosses by Clare Longrigg
Funny Girl: Poignant, funny, wonderful
The opening of the Chichester season always signals summer, and what looks a tremendously promising festival on paper gets off to a fizzily enjoyable start with Funny Girl.
Friday's iPlayer choices
By Catherine Gee, Clive Morgan and Matt Warman
Richard Serra: man of steel enters new arena
Acclaimed American sculptor has created an extraordinary installation in Paris's Grand Palais. He guides Alastair Sooke around it.
Isaac Rosenberg, the outsider's outsider
Nigel Jones reviews Isaac Rosenberg: The Making of a Great War Poet by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
The weekend's television choices
By Mary Evans, Noam Friedlander & Tessa Gibbs
Attenborough goes wild
Do you agree with Stephen Pile's view of the week's TV? Have your say in his online forum.
Taming the Great Bear
A journey across Russia for BBC2 brought Jonathan Dimbleby face to face with shamans, Cossacks – and an amorous female welder. Andrew Pettie meets him
Gladiators
Michael Deacon on the latest defunct TV programme to be resurrected for the 21st century, Gladiators
The making of Kidd West
Watch the Shubrook brothers creating their latest animation.
A scheming sexpot dismembered in a dump
Jake Kerridge reviews foreign crime fiction
Lager and sweeties
Helen Brown reviews Revenant by Tristan Hughes
Cocooned by cocoons
Victoria Lane reviews The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams
The labyrinths of Innertown
Niall Griffiths reviews Glister by John Burnside
He in a bomber, she in a dirigible
Lionel Shriver reviews The Reserve by Russell Banks
Metafictional gamesomeness
Sam Leith reviews An Arsonist's Guide To Writers' Homes in New England by Brock Clarke
Pick of the paperbacks
The Peacock Throne; Einstein; Dancing in the Streets; The Family that Couldn't Sleep; Between Each Breath; Little Constructions; The Blair Years
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Richard Serra's Promenade
Who Said What
Our regular review of the reviews
Endpaper: Proust and a postal order
Coming soon to your local library, says Alex Clark: the police and a post office
Being childish for 300 years
Lucy Moore reviews Growing Up In England by Anthony Fletcher
A memoir of depression
Keith Ridgway reviews The Devil Within by Stephanie Merritt
The wrong end of history in Eastern Europe
Robert Colvile reviews A Country in the Moon by Michael Moran; Strange Telescopes by Daniel Kalder; and I Was a Potato Oligarch by John Mole
Travelling Empire-class
Nicolette Jones reviews A Corkscrew is Most Useful by Nicholas Murray
May you live in Fortean times
Damian Thompson reviews Charles Fort: the Man who Invented the Supernatural by Jim Steinmeyer
Richard Serra: man of steel enters new arena
Acclaimed American sculptor has created an extraordinary installation in Paris's Grand Palais. He guides Alastair Sooke around it.
DVD reviews: San Demetrio London and Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium
The best of the new releases
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Bamboozle 2008: Paramore, Snoop Dogg, Gym Class Heroes and others tear up a parking lot in New Jersey
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