Culture

The Beastie Boys burst on to the scene in the early 80s as New York punk met hip-hop, spiky lyrics and a new street style – and the British tabloids loved to hate them. But in 2012, Adam Yauch died of cancer at the age of 47, and the group stopped releasing music. As they publish…

Lea DeLaria was one of the first openly queer stand-up comedians on the US comedy circuit. She now plays ‘Big Boo’ in the Netflix hit, Orange Is the New Black, a show that has consistently broken new ground on gender, sexuality, race and class. As an activist, DeLaria is one of Donald Trump’s biggest and…

On beaches throughout the British Isles people have come together to mark the centenary of the Armistice.

At school she was known as Jacky Daydream; today she’s Dame Jacqueline Wilson, a hugely successful children’s writer with a legion of fans who love her true to life stories, like “The Illustrated Mum” which tackles mental health issues. Her most successful character is Tracy Beaker, a funny ten year old who lives in a…

A fifteen-year-old Scottish composer is having her work performed this weekend at a festival run by the internationally renowned musician Sir James MacMillan. But she may be one of the lucky ones because the Cumnock Tryst festival in East Ayrshire is being held against a backdrop of cuts to music education across the country. In…

Created on an iPad, constructed in glass in York, with a signature, hand-delivered from LA. David Hockney’s new stained glass window has been unveiled in Westminster Abbey. The eight metre high Queen’s Window, in the abbey’s north transept, was designed to reflect the Queen’s love for the countryside. We went to meet the artist, who had flown in from his Californian home…

The House with a Clock in Its Walls, a fantasy horror tale, stars Cate Blanchett and Jack Black. But away from the fiction, has Hollywood itself begun to change, almost a year after the Harvey Weinstein scandal emerged?

How should Europe’s painful colonial past be told, and who gets to tell it? That’s what they’re struggling with at Belgium’s Africa Museum, home of the world’s largest collection of African art.

She found fame playing a country singer in the US television series Nashville. Now, with the sixth and final season over, Australian actor Clare Bowen is releasing a solo album that’s been over five years in the making.

As Manchester celebrates Pride, some in the LGBT community are warning the city’s gay scene and culture are under threat.

The British people don’t trust the media and think most newspapers just turn out fake news – Jeremy Corbyn has claimed – as he set out his ideas for a shake-up of the news industry. The Labour leader told the Edinburgh television festival he wanted to reduce the power of “media bosses and owners” –…

Refugees and asylum seekers from across the UK have been taking part in a youth choir as part of efforts to try and bring communities together.

He’s the figurehead of the new jazz revival in the US. Kamasi Washington was brought up in South Central Los Angeles, a place better known for producing gangster rap than saxophone players.

More than 4,000 people work in Scotland’s carnival yards; families whose heritage goes back centuries. Many of them live in Glasgow, but say they are being pushed out by the city’s fast moving regeneration – including in Govan, where a £17 million development is being built. We’ve been to meet the people who’ve been providing…