TAGGED on to the list of stars, and in diplomatically smaller print, film posters often announce the new talent under the line: “And introducing ...”.Read
HIT film The King’s Speech won four Oscars and seven Baftas – and now the play that inspired it is to be staged in Newcastle ahead of a run in London’s West End.Read
A FOLLOW-UP to last year’s spectacular Illuminating of Hadrian’s Wall is planned as one of the highlights of a major national arts festival to coincide with the Olympic Games in 2012.Read
IN ADVANCE of seeing their work at the Baltic, or of meeting any of the artists shortlisted for the Turner Prize, it was Martin Boyce who intrigued me the most.Read
ART is widely understood as a commodity, as something to covet and to buy, which perhaps explains why George Shaw’s Turner Prize-shortlisted work seems to have struck a chord with many visitors to Baltic.Read
IN this new age of texts, Twitter and the internet, it’s good to see that an old-fashioned cub reporter is about to become a huge draw on the big screen. Yes, Steven Spielberg’s new Tintin film is out this week.Read
BEING shortlisted for the Turner Prize meant “a blend of excitement and dread”, confessed Martin Boyce at yesterday’s media preview at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.Read
A RISING star of the classical music scene in the North East will be the soprano soloist in Bach’s monumental Mass in B minor in Durham Cathedral on Saturday evening.Read
WHEN Sharks Took the Rest made their live debut at The Journal Culture Awards 2008, everyone in the room quickly realised we’d all witnessed the start of something rather special.Read
IF Mervyn Peake hadn’t been able to draw for toffee, it’s likely that the centenary of his birth would have been celebrated with just as much enthusiasm.Read
TENOR Chris Elliott has sung in far-off places including Sri Lanka and Singapore but never in the North East, which he agrees seems odd for a former head chorister at Durham Cathedral who was born and brought up in Northumberland.Read
THE annual North East Last Night of the Proms concert brings some of the region’s most celebrated music stars together for a blast of national and regional patriotism in aid of cancer charities.Read
TRACIE Bennett’s high octane portrayal of Judy Garland in the dog days of her career - a point to which we will return - may make you wonder: what is she on?Read
David Whetstone is our arts and entertainments editor and is also the editor of Culture magazine. He has worked at ncjMedia for more than 25 years and has won numerous awards for he work.
