Arts

THE idea that libraries are fusty places were everyone has to be sssshed into silence will be dispelled thanks to a special event coming up next month.

TEXAN pop punk rockers Bowling For Soup are getting excited about Christmas, so much so that they’ve announced a stop-off in Reading as part of its festive UK tour. Called...

There’s a debt that Ricky Gervais owed Manfred Mann – just another good day at the office for Mike D’Abo. JAMES HASTINGS explains MIKE D’ABO always looks forward to a...

Can the colour of your skin influence the opportunities that are open to you? As the years have moved on and racial equality has taken significant steps forward, many of...

"It's about love and laughter in the fight against cancer" - director Adrian Tang. What would you do if you knew you only had a few months left to live?...

TRIBUTES have been paid to the respected choreographer and mime Lindsay Kemp who died last week. He was a former pupil at Bearwood College

Pictures: Dijana Capan / DVision Images / http://www.dvision-images.com The weather was wild and wet - but the crowd's spirits were aflame, as our gallery from Sunday proves: Are you in these...

Pictures by Dijana Capan / DVision Images / http://www.dvision-images.com “If you wanna dance, now’s your chance.” So saying, Valeras’ bass player & vocalist Rose dared festival-goers to defy the Bronte-esque downpour...

Pictures by Dijana Capan / DVision-Images / http://www.dvision-images.com “We’re not Reading born and bred, we’re Reading Festival born and bred.” Saltwater Sun are a rising five-piece band from Reading – Jennifer...

"We go by feel" I haven’t been so excited to discover a band since I stumbled across Pink Floyd in my teens. Valeras are an incredibly talented 5-piece from Reading...