Super Bowl half-time show: Bad Bunny delivers a message of unity. Trump calls it ‘disgusting’
Lady Gaga joins Bad Bunny for performance that draws criticism from Donald Trump and sparks ‘alternative’ half-time show
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Bad Bunny and Kendrick Lamar win big in Grammys ceremony filled with anti-Ice sentiment
Billie Eilish wins song of the year for Wildflower while Olivia Dean takes award for best new artist
Deadbeat, Tame Impala’s new album, gets bogged down in angst
Kevin Parker staggers through this underwhelming, repetitive LP in a state of more or less permanent perturbation
Lady Gaga wins artist of the year among four awards at MTV VMAs
Sabrina Carpenter and Ariana Grande collect three wins each
Giorgio Armani: The man who changed fashion, from the look of the CEO to the celebrity
Armani’s almost fanatic single-mindedness created an empire, making him one of the richest men in Italy and his brand a household name
TV guide: the best new shows to watch this week
August 3nd-8th: including North Circular, Cooking with the Stars, Fleadh25, MasterChef and Platonic
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to stream in August
Plenty of choice, including Hostage, Wednesday, Alien: Earth and Love Is Blind: UK
Lady Gaga: Mayhem review – An awkward attempt to re-create the magic of Bad Romance and Born This Way
Lady Gaga sounds as if her creative batteries are running on empty, leaving the star adrift in karaoke limbo
Grammy Awards 2025 in pictures
Winners at the Grammy Awards 2025 include Beyonce, Kendrick Lamar, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan
Film officials were warned ‘wholly inappropriate’ Joker sequel could cause ‘significant harm’ to children
Documents show variety of complaints to Irish Film Classification Office this year about film ratings
Joker: Folie à Deux - Why has it been such a catastrophic box-office failure?
The film’s nosedive will have repercussions for the still-floundering DC and beyond
Confidence Man: ‘We wanted to create something that was surreal and immersive’
Adrenaline-fuelled, London-based Brisbane band may be a couple, siblings or life-long friends but their dance music antics have brought them to the brink of stardom
Joker: Folie à Deux review – a drab affair that never quite gets started, but it’s probably still worth it
Even if this proposition didn’t work out, it would be the right sort of failure
Lady Gaga: Harlequin review – Joker companion album brings unsettling unpredictability to razzle-dazzle show tunes
Harley Quinn, the star’s character in Joker: Folie à Deux, affected her so much that the singer wanted to make an album reflecting Quinn’s complexities
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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