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Express & Star columnist Peter Rhodes regaled visitors to an arts festival with ripping yarns about his half century in journalism.

A Stourbridge woman who worked in factories during the Second World War is celebrating her 100th birthday with her family this week.

Roger Goodwin observed the Falklands War from the front line. He spoke to Peter Rhodes 10 years on, in 1992, reproduced here.

Rising honky tonk star Charley Crockett will return to the Bourbon Theatre to preview a new album comprised of his versions of little known classic country songs.

Odds and sods from a week of concerts, and concert announcements – starting with:

Jazz singer and pianist Diane Schurr is coming to the LIed Center for Performing Arts Tuesday where she'll perform a set made up primarily of songs from her eclectic new album "Running on Faith."

ON SCREEN

A Booker nomination may seem to answer a writer’s prayers – but it can also generate a stream of odd questions from strangers. Here’s how Steve Toltz responds.

The Melbourne novelist started work on Dinner with the Schnabels as the pandemic began to bite. She knew she would have to include it.

Unusual narrators such as paintings or animals are nothing new - they’ve been around for hundreds of years.

I was ashamed of my handwriting, but a tiny letter managed to convey what was in my heart far more eloquently than any witty emails ever could.

Rahaf Mohammed’s memoir tells of her escape from life in a country where women have little to no freedom.

Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction.

It’s not especially difficult to parse the words of elite athletes once they address a controversial subject, no matter how carefully they couch them.

Having missed out on a trophy at the Africa Cup of Nations and a place at football's most prestigious tournament, Salah will surely be fired up to win as many trophies as possible at the Reds

Ministers say the pay rise amounts to £1,000 more a year for the average worker from April - but with inflation on everyday goods at 6.2%, is the 82p an hour increase enough?

The government’s cap on energy bills, which sets the maximum amount that suppliers can charge customers on default tariffs, will rise for about 22m homes to almost £2,000 a year from today, April 1

Everything you need to know about testing for Covid from 1 April

Ramadan Mubarak to all observing!

The new cap will come into effect today.

Apple TV+’s foreboding drama Severance instantly exudes creepiness. It opens with Helly (Britt Lower) lying face down, prop-like on a brown table too big for the dull conference room. She awakens as a new employee of the shadowy corporation Lumon Industries, with no knowledge of how it happened or who she is. It turns…

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?

MIKEL ARTETA is proving the doubters wrong at Arsenal after a slow start to life at the Emirates.