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Television: Same Street, Different World: ‘Sesame’ Turns 40 - yesterday

Over the years, “Sesame Street” has replaced the graffiti and gritty smudges of city life with green...
Film: A New Attack on the Iraq War Film - yesterday

“The Messenger” portrays conflict on the home front: the struggles of those who tell the next of kin...
Playwright and Director in a Single Hair Shirt - 3 days ago

For Kenneth Lonergan, the last few weeks of directing his drama “The Starry Messenger” have included...
Film: Unleashing Life’s Wild Things - 2 days ago

A new breed of children’s movies play a kind of reverse dress-up, disguising adult anxieties in the...
Some Plays Can Twinkle Without Stars - 3 days ago

“Circle Mirror Transformation” and “The Emperor Jones” are two great productions, with not a single...
Art: Like a Plant, His Roots Are Showing - yesterday

A three-volume book and two gallery exhibitions explore the growth of the photographer Bruce...
Secret Weapon of Czech Opera’s Velvet Revolution - 8 hours ago

Multinational, original-language productions of Czech masterpieces have become popular, thanks to...

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Pressure builds for radical reform of tax system - 1 hour ago

Levy on homes and high pay inquiry considered as wealth gap widensA fierce debate within the...
Army bullish despite Afghan rethink - 3 hours ago

Senior commanders say public not convinced British troops can succeed as MoD announces deaths of two...
Queen leads remembrance tributes - 11 hours ago

Monarch lays wreath at Cenotaph in London as MoD announces death of UK soldier in AfghanistanThe...
Storms kill 91 people in El Salvador - 3 hours ago

• 60 missing, and about 7,000 in shelters• Ida upgraded to category 2 hurricaneFloods and mud slides...
Obama health plan clears first hurdle - 3 hours ago

• House of Representatives passes bill by slim margin• Democrat waverers given concession on...
Chelsea 1-0 Man Utd - 3 hours ago

The only aspect of this fixture that lived up to expectation was the contentiousness. The Premier...

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China Design Now: Part One - 1 year ago

China Design Now explores the recent explosion of new design in China. It will display the work of...
China Design Now: Part Two - 1 year ago

China Design Now explores the recent explosion of new design in China. It will display the work of...
China Design Now: Part Three - 1 year ago

China Design Now explores the recent explosion of new design in China. It will display the work of...
The Golden Age of Couture: Balenciaga Suits - 2 years ago

For the well-dressed woman in the late 1940s and early 50s, the tailored suit was a staple of...
The Golden Age of Couture: Lady Alexandra - A Couture Client - 2 years ago

The V&A has a great collection of dresses made by the French couturier Jacques Fath. They were the...
The Golden Age of Couture: New Look Suit - Hardy Amies - 2 years ago

The British couturier Hardy Amies combined the grand tradition of British tailoring with a Parisian...
Friday Late Twilight: Chrystel Lebas - 3 years ago

Listen to Chrystel Lebas, photographer, as she leads you through some of the V&A's galleries,...

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Arts & Letters Daily (08 Nov 2009) - 19 hours ago

Max Weber and Talcott Parsons may just be social scientists in your mind. But they are enemies of...
Arts & Letters Daily (07 Nov 2009) - yesterday

Max Weber and Talcott Parsons may just be social scientists in your mind. But they are enemies of...
Arts & Letters Daily (06 Nov 2009) - 2 days ago

California has over 5000 public servants whose state pensions exceed $100,000. For that lucky group,...
Arts & Letters Daily (05 Nov 2009) - 3 days ago

Livestock and poultry farms give out 500 million tons of manure yearly. Where does it all go? Ask...
Arts & Letters Daily (04 Nov 2009) - 4 days ago

Whacky tabloid headlines can be quite literally true - but very misleading all the same. John Allen...
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Victoria Beckham's modelling venture

Victoria Beckham is reportedly in talks with Simon Fuller to start their own modelling agency...
Robert De Niro's indifferent kids

Actor Robert De Niro says that his children ''aren't too impressed'' with their...
Happy quitter Kate Hudson

Kate Hudson is happy that she has managed to quit smoking but admits it made her...
Daring Nicole Kidman

Nicole Kidman deliberately chooses film roles which she knows will attract criticism...
Kate Hudson's surgery vow

Kate Hudson doesn't understand why actresses are scrutinised for having Botox injections...
John Cusack's world-ending spree

John Cusack would run up a mammoth credit card bill if he thought the world was about to end...

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Betsey Johnson talks retirement - 3 days ago

Jeanne gets an exclusive one-on-one interview with the 67-year-old designer.
Burberry's NEW Collection - 3 days ago

Designer Christopher Bailey presents Burberry Spring/Summer 2010 at home in London.
The latest from L.A.M.B. - 3 weeks ago

The latest fashions from pop star and style icon, Gwen Stefani.
D&G Launch New Fragrance - 3 weeks ago

Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer and Eva Herzigova represent the designer's first perfume anthology...
Spotlight: Sienna Miller - 1 month ago

Jeanne catches up with actress and designer Sienna Miller in Berlin.
Model Profile: Raquel Zimmermann - 1 month ago

From Victoria Secret to the runways of Brazil - Catching up with Raquel Zimmermann.

Iraq MPs approve election reform - 3 hours ago

The Iraqi parliament approves a crucial election law ahead of national polls due to be held in...
Scores die in El Salvador floods - 21 minutes ago

El Salvador declares an emergency in five regions after at least 91 people die in floods caused by...
Obama says health vote 'historic' - 8 hours ago

President Barack Obama praises the House's approval of landmark health reforms and expects the...
Bashir cancels visit to Istanbul - 1 hour ago

Sudan's President Bashir, indicted for war crimes in Darfur, pulls out of a summit in Istanbul,...
US Senate may probe army shooting - 6 hours ago

A top US senator says he is planning to investigate whether last week's deadly army base shooting...
Deadly suicide attack in Pakistan - 12 hours ago

At least 12 people, including an anti-Taliban mayor, die in a suicide attack near Pakistan's...

Deadly suicide attack in Pakistan - 11 hours ago

At least 10 people, including an anti-Taliban mayor, have died in a suicide attack near Pakistan's...
UK remembers the fallen - 9 hours ago

Thousands of people across the country have honoured the men and women killed in conflicts past and...
US army mourns shooting victims - 22 hours ago

Soldiers at Fort Hood have gathered to hold a candlelight vigil to remember victims to the shooting...
G20 vows to spur fragile growth - yesterday

Finance ministers meeting in Scotland have pledged to keep stimulus measures in place until global...
Obama says health vote 'historic' - 3 hours ago

President Obama has said he is confident that the US Senate will pass legislation to reform the...