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There is a country where top ballet dancers are treated like rock stars. Hundreds of fans line up at the stage door, waiting patiently to shower them with gifts or ask for an…

“Music scene is crazy/Bands start up each and every day,” singer Stephen Malkmus drawled on Pavement’s sardonic 1994 alt-rock hit “Cut Your Hair”. In 2025, the same could be said…

Ten years ago, something very exciting happened on the London wine scene. The wine trade crammed into the concrete basement of a Soho record shop to taste an array of wines from a…

Anna Weyant shares her home with a ghost. Not the metaphorical kind; not the ghost of painters before her, nor the ghost of her early, soaring success. Just the standard issue,…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The kick-off whistle has blown for the most anticipated…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.I am not one for symbolic numbers, but even I was leery…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Life & ArtsmyFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox.Of all the arts, music has the best claim to be an agent of…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Diving The UK-based tour operator Pelorus is known for…

In 2006’s ill-advised film Superman Returns, Lois Lane, Superman’s journalist girlfriend, finally wins the Pulitzer she has coveted. Her subject? Why the world doesn’t need…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Write “something exciting” was Lalo Schifrin’s brief for…