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Samuel L Jackson to Obama: 'Stop trying to relate'

News: Star criticises the commander-in-chief for dropping his 'G's while talking to voters and supports a Hillary Clinton run for office
Books

'Who do we become when we watch TV?'

Review: There might be one or two omissions but Joe Moran's Armchair Nation, charting of the history of British television, is enjoyably quirky according to Jonathan Coe

Television and radio

Breaking Bad: 12 ways it could end

Comment: The hit TV series Breaking Bad is finally coming to an end. So will Walt go out in a hail of bullets. Will it all be a Sopranos Switcheroo? And what is a Felina riddle?
Stage

Thatcher and the Queen behind closed doors

Feature: Playwright Moira Buffini tells Stuart Jeffries how her new work eavesdrops on the weekly meetings between Thatcher and the Queen
Art and design

Why I changed my name to Marvin Gaye Chetwynd

Interview: The performance artist formerly known as Spartacus has changed her name again. Marvin Gaye Chetwynd explains what's going on
Stage

Survey of theatre-going has surprising results

News: Research finds resurgence of interest in plays among younger people – and change in attitudes to audience etiquette

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The Rest is Noise festival: the appeal of Benjamin Britten's Noye's Fludde - video

Imogen Tilden visits Tewkesbury Abbey to see preparations for Britten's Noye's Fludde at this year's Cheltenham Music Festival

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How Churchill went atomic and currents in science writing – books…

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Catwalk shows and the fashion for covering up – books podcast

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Royal Society Winton prize for science books: the shortlist - in…

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Kurt Cobain's childhood home for sale - in pictures

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Latest culture news

Miss Piggy and Kermit together at last at the Smithsonian

25 Sep 2013: Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Rowlf and other early versions of the Muppets to join Kermit and gang in Washington museum
MacArthur genius grant winners include New Jersey healthcare crusader

25 Sep 2013:
Founder of New Jersey scheme to visit and care for the poorest members of society gets $625,000 genius grant
Miley Cyrus: is twerking worse than cooking meth on Breaking Bad?

25 Sep 2013:
Singer defends her controversial VMAs routine, comparing it with the 'how-to' on drug production that is the hit TV show
Jake Gyllenhaal 'definitely' wants another theatre role in London

25 Sep 2013: Prisoners star indicates he is open to offers in city where he last trod the boards in 2002, singling out Old Vic for praise
Australian Chamber Orchestra unveils interactive tablet experience - video

25 Sep 2013: Video (1min 25sec)
Spectators use an app on a tablet console to control which musicians can be seen and heard
Godspeed win top music prize, then say awards event is 'insane'

25 Sep 2013: Canadian post-rock collective condemn corporate sponsorship of Canada's Polaris music prize and donate purse to charity
Alice Oswald wins Warwick prize

25 Sep 2013: Judges praise 'imaginative and intellectual ambition' of Memorial, British poet's reworking of Homer's The Iliad

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Munem Wasif's best photograph: the journey for fresh water in Bangladesh

26 Sep 2013:
'Twenty years ago, the area was flooded with seawater to farm shrimp. Now there is nothing to drink'
Charlie Sheen: are celebrity jurors ever a good thing?

25 Sep 2013: The star tweeted a picture of himself turning up for jury duty. In the end, he wasn't called to serve – which, as similar cases show us, is probably a good thing …
Real Lies (No 1,604)

25 Sep 2013:
Unknown London boys recreate the perfect sound of early-90s Manchester dance music
Your TV pitches reviewed: writers and producers dish out the tough love

25 Sep 2013: Interactive
TV premiere season is upon us – and we asked you to tell us what was missing from this year's lineup. In 48 hours, more than 500 Guardian readers sent us their TV pilot pitches, and we passed on the 10 most promising to a group of writers, showrunners and industry professionals for their feedback and review. What did they have to say?
What's your favourite season of your favourite TV show?

25 Sep 2013:
Tom Meltzer: Film website Rotten Tomatoes is branching out into TV and rating shows season by season. What are your favourite seasons of shows such as Breaking Bad, Mad Men and Game of Thrones?
Lisa Appignanesi's top 10 books about Paris

25 Sep 2013:
From Baudelaire to Balzac to Proust, these 10 titles provide an insider's guide to a city of intrigue, romance and squalor
A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk – review

25 Sep 2013:
Stuart Brumfitt: An exhibition at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York explores the LGBTQ contribution to style, from 18th-century London to present-day America

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Talking points

- Is jazz good for babies?
  
  When jazz musician Michael Janisch had his first child, he put the theories to the test with a specially recorded album

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  she uses a sprinkle of magic realism firmly rooted in the mundane world
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- Doris by Earl Sweatshirt reviewed by Crisky
  
  Like a young DOOM, Earl's unorthodox, self-deprecating rolling flow is the freshest thing since Protect Ya Neck was passed around St John's school in the early nineties.
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Foals – Out of the Woods (Kulkid Remix): New music

26 Sep 2013:
The latest single from Foals' multi-award nominated new album gets a brilliant dance makeover on this new remix
Music blog

Russia's first Womad festival brings world music to North Caucasus

25 Sep 2013: Mountainside near town of Pyatigorsk hosts artists from across globe after eleventh-hour Kremlin jitters were calmed
Jonathan Jones on art

Dissecting the Exploding Whale: why do modern art shows have odd names?

25 Sep 2013: Jonathan Jones: From Daddy, I Want to Be a Black Artist to Schadenfreude, today's artists are battling to come up with the wackiest titles
Books blog

Do you know who wrote Great Expectations?

25 Sep 2013:
A third of the population don't, according to a new survey. But look on the bright side - one in three of us has actually read it
Music blog

Breaking bands: Televisor

25 Sep 2013:
The disco-fixated duo on commercial dance music, funkiness and how to make music together when you live in different countries

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Power Trip: A Decade of Policy, Plots and Spin by Damian McBride – review

26 Sep 2013: Damian McBride's self-abasing book is just another of his dirty spins – but the real guilty party is Gordon Brown, says Andrew Rawnsley
Sport and leisure 1hr 17min ago

The Metaphysics of Ping-Pong by Guido Mina di Sospiro – review

26 Sep 2013: This pompous and dull-witted treatise on table tennis resorts to stating the obvious in place of philosophy, writes Geoff Dyer
Documentary 4hr 17min ago

Northern Soul: Keep the Faith – TV review

26 Sep 2013:
Rebecca Nicholson: The archive material is wonderful in this Culture Show special: skinny, sweaty people jerking wildly

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Writing for the theatre? Be practical

Playwrights need instinct and heart but must also be pragmatic – Miriam Gillinson advises aspiring writers how to stay grounded
Culture professionals network 23hr 55min ago

Creative Russia: lessons from Berlin

Can St Petersburg emulate the German capital, once divided by communism, and transform itself into a global cultural hub?
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