Tupac Shakur murder trial opens in Las Vegas after nearly three decades
Prosecutors say Duane 'Keffe D' Davis directed the 1996 drive-by killing as payback for an attack on his nephew — but the case rests on one man, decades on.
Stones, Shrapnel and Larkspur: What Charlotte Higgins's New Book Asks of Wartime Culture
A new book on art under Russian bombardment is being praised for its detail — but the trade of writing culture out of catastrophe deserves scrutiny too.
Hayden Panettiere, 36: the child star who made a network rewrite the plot
The actor behind Heroes' regenerating cheerleader has died, prompting a reminder of how rare it is for a performer to bend a show's entire arc around them.
Pole dance goes fringe: from strip clubs to serious theatre, at serious risk to pay
Pole dancers are storming Edinburgh's theatre stages this year - the artistry is undeniable, but the source material is thin on what performers are actually paid to get there.
The Diplomat is now an awards machine, and Keri Russell still has not won
Netflix's Washington drama collected a spread of acting and writing nominations for the 78th Emmys on 14 September. Its lead has eight nominations and no statuette, which is a fact about the Academy more than about her.
The Old Vic has revived a 1969 farce, and the reason is written into the set
Alan Ayckbourn's How the Other Half Loves runs at the Old Vic until 19 September, with Roger Allam and Adam Gillen. A theatre chooses a fifty-seven-year-old comedy for reasons the design makes plain.
The arena ticket levy has made its first payment, and £500,000 does not go very far
The LIVE Trust has handed out the first money raised by the voluntary £1 levy on big shows. The interesting part is not the total, but how thinly it has to spread and who is holding the collection tin.
S4C has appointed two new board members, and neither of them comes from television
A literature chair and a sports lawyer join the Welsh broadcaster's board for four years, at £9,650 a year. What a board is picked for says what the organisation thinks its problem is.
The culture department is putting £400m into a theme park, and the money is not coming from the culture budget
A subsidy watchdog has just closed its file on DCMS's grant to UDX Development Company Limited. The route the money takes is the part worth reading.