Arts and Culture

Lawyer Joe Tacopina has represented the great and the not-so-good. But what’s he doing as the owner of a club in Italy’s Serie B? By RYAN HERMAN

Few other vegetarian dishes provide such comfort on a winter’s day as this one, says JOSH BARRIE

Costume drama star Romola Garai gets her revenge on anyone who makes assumptions about her by making a grisly horror. By JASON SOLOMONS

A new album sees a Georgian pioneer reunite with band members from a formative period of his career

An exhibition of fashion photography on A Coruña’s industrial dockside is a gift to the city. By FLORENCE HALLETT

Where did the current cultural upheaval begin exactly? And will the social schism it has created end in unity – or a more deeply divided nation?

At 75 minutes, this is a relatively short play. Nonetheless, you still find yourself asking “Is there much more of this?” writes TIM WALKER.

The legalisation of cannabis in all its forms is almost here – all done bar the shouting, says WILL SELF

CHARLIE CONNELLY on a stick-up merchant whose victims were often left feeling almost flattered

PETER TRUDGILL on why cities have different names... and how using one or the other doesn’t necessarily identify you as a vile colonialist.

Potato bread acts as a gentle mattress for avocado, writes JOSH BARRIE

Two of the leading lights behind the failed European Super League bid have since gone in very different directions

Remembering Nellie Bly, the pioneering journalist who eclipsed Jules Verne’s hero. By CHARLIE CONNELLY

This play based on a 2014 film feels like unnecessary and somewhat frivolous theatre, says TIM WALKER

Goodnight Louisa's album Human Danger shows how time spent in an alien landscape can provoke the deepest personal reflections

Images of China’s relentless acceleration are both beautiful and troubling

Politicians are determined to clean up the city’s fabled sex and drug trade. But some locals aren’t so sure.

A Netflix film poses a pivotal question – are any two people meant to be together, or is it just a matter of timing?

A new exhibition explores the past 70 years of British history from the perspective of those who feel disconnected from their heritage.

Some inventions sounded, and even looked, brilliant, only to fall flat. But that isn’t always the end of the story for great ideas.

WILL SELF on an era when eating meat seemed as blameless as the means employed to obtain it

CHARLIE CONNELLY on the chat show staple often described as the closest thing Munich had to royalty.

Assessing the legacies of five great women writers who left us in just 17 December days.

This recipe is a must for anyone who has some old, stale, sweet Italian bread lying around

Freiburg's Christian Streich is similar to a managerial legend in more ways than one

Fifty years on from the flop film version that became a cult classic, taking another ride along with the psychedelic French-British TV sensation for kids

This online panto embraces the new format while keeping all the old traditions alive and well, says TIM WALKER

Award-winning director Andrea Arnold is back, with a moving documentary about a cow

A collaboration between avant-folk musician Richard Dawson and his long-time heroes Circle is as original as you might expect

America has always been full of 'Rampaging White People'. But if anyone can face them it's Joe Biden, writes BONNIE GREER.

FLORENCE HALLETT examines the Gulf state’s thriving cultural scene

Georgian photographer DAVIT TABAGARI produces stunning images of the rusting remains of the once mighty Soviet empire in his hometown Tbilisi.