How to Make a Killing to Wu-Tang Clan: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
Glen Powell indulges in some murder most profitable, and the influential rap collective arrive in the UK complete with a clutch of peerless classicsHow to Make a KillingOut nowLoosely inspired by the much-loved Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, here is a dark comedy that sees Glen Powell play an upwardly mobile schemer who isn’t afraid to murder his way to his inheritance.Directed by John Patton Ford (Emily the Criminal).Reminders of HimOut nowMaika Monroe (It Follows) stars as a woman who goes to prison following a car accident in which her boyfriend (Rudy Pankow) is killed.On release, she finds herself drawn to a handsome local bar owner (Tyriq Withers).Romance based on the bestselling Colleen Hoover novel.
Everybody to Kenmure StreetOut nowWhen the Home Office sent vehicles to Glasgow’s Kenmure Street to potentially deport some residents, everyone from the activist known as Van Man to a local imam to various schoolchildren spontaneously blocked the street.This documentary, winner of a special jury award at Sundance, tells the story of eight extraordinary hours in UK protest history.A Pale View of HillsOut nowEtsuko, a Japanese woman living in the UK, explores her memories of summer in 1950s Nagasaki, alongside an attempt to reckon with the more recent suicide of her daughter.Adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel, starring Suzu Hirose, Fumi Nikaido and Yō Yoshida, and written and directed by Kei Ishikawa.Catherine BrayRenée RappAO Arena, Manchester, 18 March; OVO Arena, London, 19 & 20 March; touring to 22 MarchLast summer, actor and proper pop star Rapp’s second album Bite Me arrived chock full of personality-packed bops and crashed into the UK No 1 spot.
On this arena tour expect her to tear through the likes of recent brat-pop smash Leave Me Alone.Michael CraggWu-Tang ClanThe O2, London, 17 March & 18 March; Co-op Live, Manchester, 19 MarchThe hugely influential hip-hop collective arrive in the UK as part of their Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber tour.With a focus on fan service, expect deep cuts, rarely performed tracks and peerless classics such as Protect Ya Neck, Triumph and the Top 10 head-knocker Gravel Pit.MCMark Lockheart Shapeshifter TrioThe Hive, Shrewsbury, 14 March; 1000 Trades, Birmingham, 20 March; touring to 21 MarchMark Lockheart, the UK saxophonist-composer, has been a founder member of two great European bands: the innovative Loose Tubes orchestra and the unique global-jazz small group Polar Bear.Now he launches Shapeshifter, a typically empathic, improv-leaning trio with subtle partners Huw V Williams (bass) and Jay Davis (drums).
John FordhamRoyal Opera, Wagner’s SiegfriedRoyal Opera House, London, 17 March to 6 AprilOpera doesn’t get more ambitious – or gripping – than Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle.New productions are a massive undertaking.Following the acclaimed first two instalments of Australian director Barrie Kosky’s new Royal Opera staging, Siegfried features German über-tenor Andreas Schager in the title role.He heads a superb cast conducted by Antonio Pappano.Flora WillsonIn BloomAshmolean Museum, Oxford, 19 March to 16 AugustA portrait of the 17th-century gardener Sir John Tradescant, whose collection helped create the Ashmolean Museum, is one of the curious and beautiful images in this survey of flowers in art, science and trade.
Other delights range from Iznik floral ceramics to botanical drawings and paintings.Spring’s here!Hokusai and HiroshigeWhitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 14 March to 15 NovemberThe scintillating masterpieces of Japan’s two greatest printmakers crossed continents and revolutionised art.Van Gogh and Whistler were among the modernists who collected and revered them.These artists knew nothing of the society and religion that Hiroshige and Hokusai depicted but found them liberating – as we still do.VanbrughSir John Soane’s Museum, London to 28 JuneThe Baroque genius Sir John Vanbrugh found Britain still dominated by half-timbered houses and gave it stupendous palaces that still dazzle in their exploration of extremes of architectural spectacle.
Even if you’ve never visited his masterpiece Castle Howard you’ve seen it on screen, in Brideshead, Bridgerton and more.Sarah MorrisWhite Cube Mason’s Yard, London, to 9 MayThis rigorous abstract painter has been creating grids, networks and systems of line and colour since the 1990s.New York skylines and the Manhattan street plan echo in her work just as in the late paintings of Mondrian.She’s coolly, relentlessly modern, and you can picture her work in penthouses.Jonathan JonesJanine HarouniNewcastle upon Tyne, 19 March; Glasgow, 20 March; touring to 22 May The Staten Island-raised, London-based standup performed her last show heavily pregnant: now she’s back on tour telling tales from the frontline of motherhood.
This Is What You Waited For contrasts her own childrearing style with her parents’ techniques in a series of clever, cathartic and characteristically slick gags,Rachel AroestiTeeth ’N’ SmilesDuke of York’s theatre, London, to 6 June Daniel Raggett’s revival marks 50 years since David Hare’s play premiered at the Royal Court,Rebecca Lucy Taylor – AKA Self Esteem – stars as singer Maggie, combing through the wreckage of her career in one boozy night,Noughts & CrossesNew Wolsey theatre, Ipswich, 17 March to 21 March; touring to 23 May Sabrina Mahfouz’s powerful adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s modern take on Romeo and Juliet – here revived by Esther Richardson – tours the UK,Brianna Douglas and Lewis Tidy star as the two teenagers struggling to live and love.
Miriam GillinsonAlexander Whitley Dance CompanySadler’s Wells East, London, 18 March to 21 MarchA double bill (The Rite of Spring/Mirror) from a choreographer intensely involved in the interactions between art and technology,Whitley uses live motion-capture and AI in the creation of his works, which in turn critique the place of tech in our lives and our relationships with intelligent machines,Lyndsey WinshipThe Other Bennet SisteriPlayer & BBC One, 15 March, 8pmLimber up for the big new Netflix Pride and Prejudice with this sidelong, sweetly comic take on Austen’s classic,Adapted from former BBC Two controller Janice Hadlow’s fan fiction-style novel – a bildungsroman for Mary, the serious, socially awkward Bennet sibling – it boasts a cast that includes Ruth Jones and Richard E Grant,Last One Laughing UKPrime Video, 19 MarchThis pared-back format – 10 comedians spend a few hours in a room together trying to keep a straight face – brought a transcendent joy to the schedules last year.
Now it returns with another stellar crop of comics, including Alan Carr, David Mitchell and Diane Morgan, plus inimitable reigning champ Bob Mortimer.Imperfect WomenApple TV+, 18 MarchIf you’ve watched TV in the past decade, you’ll be well aware that behind every seemingly perfect woman’s seemingly charmed life lies darkness, deceit and desperation.Adapted from Araminta Hall’s novel, this drama sees Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington and Kate Mara unite to riff on the theme once more.Jury Duty: Company RetreatPrime Video, 20 MarchThe first instalment of this curveball comedy centred on a man who believed he was being filmed while participating in jury service.In reality, everyone around him was an actor.
The result was an unusually wholesome prank show that this second series, set at a corporate awayday, aims to recreate.RACrimson DesertPC, Xbox, PS5, out 19 MarchIt’s a brave company that launches a brand new open-world role-playing adventure in 2026, so helmets off to South Korean developer Pearl Abyss.Crimson Desert is a sprawling medieval fantasy romp with steampunk dragons, mass sword fights and a swooping orchestral score.Frankly, the trailer had me at the part you ride a bear into battle.RubatoPC, PS5, Switch, out 20 MarchIn a post-apocalyptic universe, a frog with an elastic tongue must take on the forces of evil and save life as we know it.
If you’re looking for a bizarre, experimental 2D platformer that references Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Metroid and a dozen other retro classics in a frenzy of garish pixels, this is the one for you.Keith StuartKim Gordon – Play MeOut nowThe art-rock icon continues to explore pop’s perimeters on this third solo album.As with 2024’s The Collective, Play Me is produced by Justin Raisen (Sky Ferreira), the pair conjuring up ironic love songs to big tech (Dirty Tech) and disjointed political statements such as BYE BYE 25! that sound beamed in from another planet.Alexis Taylor – Paris in the Spring Out now Across his previous five solo albums, Hot Chip frontman Taylor has flitted between intimate balladry and electronic bangers, all anchored by his delicate voice.Here he channels leftfield pop, disco and even country, with support from Air’s Nicolas Godin and the Avalanches.
James Blake – Trying TimesOut nowFresh from co-producing rapper Dave’s most recent album, the tactile electro-soul practitioner returns with his seventh album.I Had a Dream She Took My Hand is a delicate swirl of loved-up affection, while Death of Love – co-produced by Blake’s actual love, Jameela Jamil – ramps up the beat-heavy atmospherics.Jack Harlow – MonicaOut nowAt his commercial peak, rapper Jack Harlow’s ubiquitous hits were typically accompanied by derision, with critics highlighting his dorky persona.Since 2023’s surprise drop Jackman, however, Harlow has taken a more serious turn, a move that continues on this fourth album.MCFrom the Minds of Jazz MusiciansPodcastMusician and academic David Schroeder hosts this fascinating series exploring improvisation and the everyday lives of contemporary jazzers.
Highlights include a deep dive with pioneering saxophonist, the 95-year-old Sonny Rollins.Wolf Escape GamesOnlineA blend of Traitors-style intrigue with brain-teasing tasks, the online escape rooms from Wolf Escape allow teams of players of all ages to explore detailed and addictive multiplayer scenarios of increasing complexity.The AlpenpostBBC SoundsHistorian Maurice Casey tells the lesser-known story of a 1930s anti-Nazi publication created by two refugee girls in this intriguing documentary.We hear how the paper kept the girls connected to their travelling activist father.Ammar Kalia
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How to make Irish stew – recipe | Felicity Cloake's Masterclass
The first time I dared to write a recipe for Irish stew, I was invited on to the national broadcaster, RTÉ, to discuss my choices live on air. And, to my considerable relief, it was eventually decided that I had not dishonoured the memory of my ancestors. It’s tempting for modern cooks to meddle with such resolutely plain classics. Do not! It’s delicious just as it is.Prep 20 min Cook 2 hr Serves 63 large onions 2 tbsp oil, or lamb fat10-12 very floury potatoes, depending on size and hunger1 neck of lamb, or hogget or mutton, cut into thick slices (see steps 1 and 2)2 sprigs fresh thyme Salt and pepper 6 carrots, or, if you like, substitute some for chopped turnip, swede or leekChopped parsley, or chives, to serve (optional)Traditionally, an older, less productive animal would have been used here – and the slow cooking time reflects this – but modern recipes tend to favour lamb
DakaDaka, London W1: ‘Like a 2am lock-in on a Tbilisi back street’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants
DakaDaka, a rowdy paean to Georgian cuisine, has arrived on Heddon Street in the West End of London. Heddon Street has always been synonymous with rowdiness, regardless of the fact that the mature, semi-elegant likes of Sabor, Piccolino and Heddon Street Kitchen are quite the opposite. But anyone who ever found themselves staggering out of Strawberry Moons in the 1990s having lost a shoe and with a love bite or from the basement club at Momo will know that this little nook tucked away behind Regent Street is where a good time is meant to be had.And now there’s DakaDaka, which certainly does not market itself as a nightclub, because, well, virtually nowhere does any more. What DakaDaka does do, though, is play Georgian dance music very loudly and with endless enthusiasm right through your badrijani (grilled aubergines), imeruli (cheese-filled flatbread) and kababi (lamb skewers)
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Dinner by Heston was once one of the world’s most revered restaurants, known for its decadent and unusual dishes such as the “meat fruit”.But Heston Blumenthal announced this week that he is winding down operations at the two Michelin-star restaurant at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Knightsbridge, London, saying it was because the tenancy had “finished”.However, current and former workers at Dinner claim the restaurant has been going downhill for years after Blumenthal fell out with his right-hand man, Ashley Palmer-Watts, who created the menu and ran the restaurant day to day before he left the business.“Closing the restaurant was not Heston’s choice whatsoever,” a senior source from the Mandarin Oriental told the Guardian. “The hotel chose not to renew the lease
Mother’s Day UK recipes: three delicious ideas to make for your mum from Ravinder Bhogal
Few things say “I love you” more than an unbidden cup of tea, but if you want to show true appreciation to the maternal figure in your life this Mother’s Day, there’s nothing better than a few indulgent snacks to go with it. I love the British tradition of afternoon tea, but I find finger sandwiches in hotel lobbies a little too fussy. I would much rather a fortifying savoury sandwich, a slab of good, old-fashioned cake and buttery biscuits that crumble into a million sweet crumbs.This very simple cake can be baked in a regular cake tin, but cooking it in a bundt tin makes it much more of a showstopper. If you want to forgo the icing, serve with a dollop of creme fraiche and berries instead
Benjamina Ebuehi’s recipe for caramelised white chocolate and rhubarb cheesecake | The sweet spot
It’s often my own impatience that forces me to make no-bake cheesecakes over baked ones. They’re not at all as faffy, though it’s pretty hard to beat the lighter, silkier texture you get with a baked version plus the extra effort is worth it on a special occasion such as Mother’s Day. I’ve sweetened the filling for this one with caramelised white chocolate – it brings a beautiful, creamy, dulce de leche-type caramel flavour that even the biggest white chocolate haters should enjoy. If making your own caramelised white chocolate feels a step too far, however, just buy bars of blond chocolate instead. Top with gently poached rhubarb for a pop of colour and to cut through the richness
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