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Role Model dabbles with wit and wolfishness in new album Chuck Timely & The Hourglass ft.trib.al/ponXVKz
Role Model dabbles with wit and wolfishness in new album Chuck Timely & The Hourglass
The American singer-songwriter’s new album centres on dating and romance with a flirtatious cameo from Dakota Johnson
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Ted Lasso season 4 — can a women’s football team save this dwindling comedy? ft.trib.al/kzJ1yWu
Ted Lasso season 4 — can a women’s football team save this dwindling comedy?
Trusty stars Jason Sudeikis and Hannah Waddingham benefit from fresh material but the series is not a glorious return to form
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Jacques Marie Mage – Patti Smith’s favoured optical shop ft.trib.al/4fuReUg
Jacques Marie Mage – Patti Smith’s favoured optical shop
The luxury eyewear house has landed in London
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Salzburg’s Ariadne auf Naxos gets lost in space ft.trib.al/yojiLi8
Salzburg’s Ariadne auf Naxos gets lost in space
The Festival transports Strauss’s opera to Mars — with a rough landing
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This Carmen could have been awful. Instead, it’s grippingly marvellous ft.trib.al/s62V96W
This Carmen could have been awful. Instead, it’s grippingly marvellous
Extraordinary vocal feats and a crystal-clear vision — a directorial debut at Salzburg Festival hits the perfect note
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Great Granny Webster — Caroline Blackwood’s twisted, aristocratic fairy tale ft.trib.al/Hvam5JK
Great Granny Webster — Caroline Blackwood’s twisted, aristocratic fairy tale
This Booker-shortlisted 1977 novel, now reissued by Virago Modern Classics, reads like a memoir refracted through gothic fantasy
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Petal — Ariana Grande turns ‘unfiltered rage’ into seductive pop ft.trib.al/rcUu1ls
Petal — Ariana Grande turns ‘unfiltered rage’ into seductive pop
As the singer prepares to retreat from the spotlight, her eighth album critiques fame with honeyed vocals and swooning R&B
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The Car Man — Matthew Bourne’s noir dance thriller has the accessibility of classic cinema ft.trib.al/TDHZKEE
The Car Man — Matthew Bourne’s noir dance thriller has the accessibility of classic cinema
Set in a diner in small-town America, this tale of sexual betrayals returns to Sadler’s Wells, London with precision-tuned performances
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In the UK’s slow market, those with a mortgage or who are in a chain have a hunger that can give them the edge ft.trib.al/RHxekGx
Chess: Geneva to host 2026 world title match with holder Gukesh the underdog against Sindarov ft.trib.al/ic3OFOi
Chess: Geneva to host 2026 world title match with holder Gukesh the underdog against Sindarov
Puzzle: can you win like the world title challenger?
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The city has become the largest hub for AI power centres across Europe, competing with homes for energy, space and water. But its priorities are being called into question: ft.trib.al/TPN39q3
If this is how we normalise talking about money within relationships, Claer Barrett is all for it: ft.trib.al/m87ydgC
Exhumations of soldiers from frontline cemeteries are rare. But fallen Ukrainian fighters are now being reburied hundreds of miles from where they died: ft.trib.al/VktsobN
A fractured thumb, a footballer’s letter, a girl band in Suffolk: FT writers revisit the season that made them ft.trib.al/5G46ci9
The new film ‘Tony’ dramatises the chef’s early years, but the real story lies in how Bourdain transformed our view of restaurant culture, writes Jay Rayner: ft.trib.al/vTBbNaM
The whole middle-aged working stiff genre is being redefined. You can’t afford not to be involved, writes Robert Shrimsley: ft.trib.al/ldDCWoD
The novelist on how romance fiction is reshaping publishing, the enduring appeal of Regency England — and why BookTok is a haven for fans: ft.trib.al/ewhA6Ox
In the past, counterfeiters focused on luxury products. This year, they’ve adopted a more egalitarian approach, broadening the scope to premium mid-market and contemporary labels: ft.trib.al/UXlCmAo
