7 h. ago In the Arena: Serena Williams review – there is just no one in the world that matches up to her (and her sister)

This eight-part docuseries about one of tennis’s most decorated players paints a picture of an astonishing woman – and an even more astonishing sibling relationshipSerena Williams, holder of 39 grand slam titles and four Olympic gold medals, who spent 319 weeks as tennis’s world No 1 and became the highest-earning female athlete in history, never thought she was that good when she was a young player. That was because she was always training against her older sister, Venus (“she was the prodigy of prodigies”), the only person in the world who could really challenge her. A year younger, Serena remembers being shorter and weaker and resorting to cheating on line calls at practice so she could occasionally beat her.In the Arena: Serena Williams (the title comes from President Roosevelt’s 1910 speech to the Sorbonne – “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the ...

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68 h. ago Live Review: William Tyler + Natalie Wildgoose, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London – 4th June 2025

Live Review: William Tyler + Natalie Wildgoose, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London – 4th June 2025  Americana UK

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1 week ago A bold image of motherhood – using a prosthetic belly: Gabriel Moses’ best photograph

‘My sister used to have all these fashion posters in her bedroom – Nick Wright photographs, pictures of Naomi Campbell. Those references have become important in my work’I was raised in a single-parent household by my mum and we’re very close. She is a nurse, but she also did a lot of flower-arranging. I would often go to hang around the florists with her and her arrangements were always around the house. When I was a kid she was also a Sunday school teacher and would run arts and crafts workshops at church. I think I began to appreciate colour, how to match things, and develop taste, from there. My sister also studied fashion – and I was always in her bedroom as that’s where I would go to watch TV. She would have all these posters from Dazed and Vogue, Nick Knight photographs, pictures of Naomi Campbell. I thought it was rubbish at the time, but in hindsight I can understand how those references have become important.This image was the cover of my book, Regina, which was a massive ...

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1 week ago Robbie Williams flies in on a rocket and brings out star guest in stunning Manchester Co

Death-defying stage dives, big anthems, and plenty of showbiz sparkle as Robbie Williams put on quite the show in Manchester's Co-op Live

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2 w. ago Robbie Williams at the Emirates Stadium review: 'a grand scale This Is Your Life'

The showman does not disappoint on a night when he arrives on stage upside down from a giant gold rocket

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2 w. ago 'I've never been so proud': Sam Thompson’s sister Louise on his autism diagnosis and 260

EXCLUSIVE: The former Made In Chelsea star said she thinks it’s ‘really cool‘ that he’s able to be open about who he really is and to use his platform to help others

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2 w. ago Robbie Williams’s first Britpop show in Edinburgh veers from electrified showmanship to plain awful

‘My dream is to be the best entertainer on the f***ing planet,’ the pop star tells a suitably wowed Edinburgh, and he certainly seems to mean it

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