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From the magazine‘Meat-and-potatoes rock’ is the pejorative term critics use when describing groups of white men with guitars who play loud, uncomplicated music. Why would anyone enjoy such stuff, when there are the ceviches of hyperpop, the flavoured foams of experimental hip-hop, the chargrilled seasonal vegetables of jazz? Don’t they know the world has moved on? Unfortunately,
Devastating: Almeida Theatre’s King Lear reviewed
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The fading art of elegant gallery dining
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Another exhibition that sees everything through the prism of race
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