BBC News: Entertainment
- VIDEO: Ester Rada: Israel's rising music star
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 07:32 PMIsrael's latest star and her musical heritage
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez dies
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 04:10 PMThe Nobel prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez dies in Mexico aged 87, a source close to his family says.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - VIDEO: Could big business take over Tribeca?
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 11:19 AMRobert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival opens in New York amid fears big business investment could risk extravaganza's integrity
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - George Alagiah treated for cancer
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 09:13 AMBBC News presenter George Alagiah is diagnosed with bowel cancer and will take a break from broadcasting while he receives treatment.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - BP Portrait Award shortlist unveiled
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 07:48 AMThree artists are shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award 2014, for work featuring a homeless man, a reluctant mother and a mature fashionista.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - VIDEO: Lighting the way and more arts stories
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 06:45 AMA giant light installation in an old gas storage tank in Germany, works by French sculptor Auguste Rodin and US photographer Robert Mapplethorpe side by side in Paris - and more from the world of arts.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Removed Banksy taken to city museum
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 06:21 AMThe Banksy picture at the centre of a row over ownership is moved from a youth club by police and taken to Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Leigh and Loach selected for Cannes
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 06:28 AMVeteran British directors Mike Leigh and Ken Loach see their new films selected for competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Gospels win North East culture award
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 04:47 AMAn exhibition of the 1,300-year-old Lindisfarne Gospels in Durham is named best event at a ceremony celebrating culture in the north-east of England.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Frozen US number one for 10th week
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 02:52 AMThe album from Disney's animated film becomes one of only 11 albums to have topped the US chart for 10 weeks or longer.
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- Obituary: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 04:10 PMNobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez whose vibrant prose conveyed an overflowing imagination
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - AUDIO: James Blunt on Twitter put downs
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 11:36 AMJames Blunt has waged war on Twitter trolls by targeting them with witty one-liners.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - VIDEO: Lady Sybil ditches Downton's glamour
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 08:18 AMActress Jessica Brown Findlay ditches the make-up and glamour of Downton Abbey for gritty adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - VIDEO: How The Vamps got together
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 08:11 AMBritain's latest boy band The Vamps tell BBC Breakfast about getting together and the band's "Yoda".
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How can music make your ears bleed?
Wednesday - 04/16/2014 - 01:17 PMHow loud does it have to be for your ears to bleed?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Zoo' appears on derelict care home
Wednesday - 04/16/2014 - 11:33 AMA "zoo" of 20ft (6m) high graffiti animals appears on the walls of an abandoned nursing home in Wiltshire.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mrs Doubtfire sequel in the works
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 06:09 AMA sequel to hit 1993 comedy Mrs Doubtfire is on the cards, with actor Robin Williams and the writer behind Elf on board.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bryan Singer sex abuse claim 'absurd'
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 04:57 AMClaims that X-Men director Bryan Singer sexually abused a teenager in 1999 are dismissed as "completely without merit" by the film-maker's lawyer.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why is Captain Underpants the most complained about book?
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 03:26 AMWhy is Captain Underpants the most complained about book?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The return of rock: Four bands to watch
Wednesday - 04/16/2014 - 08:04 PMFour guitar bands to look out for in 2014
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- VIDEO: Stewart Copeland's Ben-Hur film score
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 07:28 PMNew music for Ben-Hur from Police drummer Stewart Copeland
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - VIDEO: Franco and O'Dowd's Broadway Bromance
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 11:38 AMActors James Franco and Chris O'Dowd make their Broadway debuts in the latest adaptation of Of Mice And Men
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Salsa legend Cheo Feliciano dies
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 10:09 AMPuerto Rican salsa singer and composer Cheo Feliciano dies in a car crash in his native island aged 78.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - AUDIO: The world's first homoerotic stamps
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 07:48 AMEstelle Lovatt and David Bailey discuss Finland's decision to produce the "world's first" homoerotic stamps
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - MF Husain's last works to be shown
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 06:41 AMThe final nine paintings made by one of India's most famous artists, MF Husain, will be shown in public for the first time this summer at London's V&A.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ai Weiwei exhibits in former chapel
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 06:35 AMArtist Ai Weiwei chooses a former chapel in Yorkshire as the venue for his next UK exhibition.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Artists have unique brain structure
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 05:35 AMArtists' brains are structurally different to non-artists in areas relating to fine motor movements and visual imagery, a study finds.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - VIDEO: Getting boys back into books
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 04:15 AMChildren's Laureate, Malorie Blackman, wants to get boys back into books.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Rock band AC/DC are 'not retiring'
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 04:43 AMAC/DC confirm they will continue making music, following news guitarist and founder member Malcolm Young is taking a break from the band due to ill health.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Star cast brings Thomas play to TV
Thursday - 04/17/2014 - 02:12 AMSir Tom Jones, Sian Phillips and Michael Sheen are named in an all-star cast for a new BBC TV adaptation of the Dylan Thomas play Under Milk Wood.
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