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For most of us, Marilyn Monroe appears first in the glare of a flashbulb. Before she is a person, a performance, a life, she is already an image: platinum hair, parted lips, beauty mark, half-closed eyes, symbolising a story about...
The Tip Toe actor on staging Scottish talent at the Pitlochry Festival theatre, the ‘psychological torture’ of The Traitors, and Zohran Mamdani The Scottish actor Alan Cumming made his name as the Emcee in Cabaret at the Donmar...
It’s the last game of Clapton Community Football Club’s season and the sun shines on the Old Spotted Dog in Forest Gate, a ground recently improved with a new toilet block and a memorial commemorating the fallen members of the Newham...
“I loved her the minute I read her,” Douglas Stuart tells me. “I felt she was a very vital missing piece from the voices of the time and the place.” The Scottish novelist and shortstory writer Agnes Owens was born on 24 May 1926, 100 years ago...
As Amazon prepares a new era for James Bond, the first glimpse of the franchise’s future is not a film but a video game that aims to make the character relevant to a new generation. When GoldenEye 007 arrived in 1997, expectations were...
James McNeill Whistler Tate Britain, London SW1; until 27 September Tate Britain’s enormous homage to James McNeill Whistler opens with a painting and a mirror. What a gambit: which is the emptier of the two? Is it the radiant rectangle...