United Kingdom-Culture & Entertainment

Cleveland Orchestra's sound may not be as burnished as Chicago's, or as startlingly in-your-face as Los Angeles' but it has something special of its own. Rating: * * *

A hodge-podge of off-the-cuff rhyming, (atrocious) dancing and silliness can be riotously enjoyable. Rating: * * * *

The first follow-up Klaxons album didn't see the light of day. What did they do next?

The 48-year-old author on being a tragic teenager, making big decisions and bonding with the Duchess of Cornwall over shoes.

Edinburgh's Fringe is famous for taking shows out of the theatre. Venues this year include shops, a barge on the Firth of Forth and a children's playpark. It was there that Scottish company Gridiron first performed their show Decky Does A Bronco - which opened the door, quite literally, for many companies to perform outside.

Acclaimed British literary critic Sir Frank Kermode has died at the age of 90, the London Review of Books announces.

The Liverpool home of former Beatle Ringo Starr could be bulldozed after years of wrangling over its future.

There were many moments that brought happy memories flooding back, not least when Hilda Ogden's beloved "murial" was revealed in all its kitsch glory to sighs of pleasure from the stalls. Rating: * * * *

As the music loses extraversion, it finds its soul. Rating: * * *

An adaptation of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, starring a young Sean Connery, is rediscovered by BBC archivists 49 years after it was first shown.

The musical Gospel at Colonus casts the Blind Boys of Alabama in the role of Sophocles' tragic hero.

Kyle Lambert's Apple iPad portraits of celebrities, step by step.

The American Ballet has announced it is to perform in Cuba for the first time in 50 years.

Hardly any props or actors are needed to tell the stories in these two plays. Keepers: * * * , No Child: * * * * *

Kings Of Leon say they have snubbed the chance to have their music used on US TV series' Glee and Ugly Betty.

Two plays about young people's troubles at the Edinburgh fringe shock and surprise. Hot Mess: * * * , Apples: * * * *

Forest Fringe director on turning a deconsecrated church into a theatre.

Tim Westwood is asking followers on Twitter whether he should accept £50,000 for a place on Dancing On Ice.

Channel 4 mops up after heavy rain forced all nine Big Brother contestants to be evacuated from the reality TV house.

The American Ballet Theatre company is to perform in Cuba later this year for the first time in 50 years.