Music 

Mancunian band The Whip are here for the crack

The Manchester quartet’s ‘electronic sweat music’ is raising pulses. Ed Potton witnesses a hot night on their home turf

Beck on his Modern Guilt

Fatherhood has made 38-year-old pop polymath Beck restless. Pete Paphides joins him house hunting in... Southampton

Hands off Amy Winehouse - respect the barrier

Amy Winehouse manhandled at Glastonbury? Fans should not cross the line, argues Steve Adams, of the Broken Family Band

Marlon Brando? No, just a big bando

‘The other’ Maria Schneider, America’s big-band composer, has heard all the Last Tango jokes, John Bungey discovers

Film 

What do Hollywood actors really earn?

According to SAG, average annual income is a mere $52,000 (£26,000) - before agents, lawyers and managers take their cut

Mamma Mia! The Musical premieres in Leicester Square

The crowd waved Swedish flags to the Abba music that played incessantly for the London film premiere

The mother of all scandals

It's taboo, but it's true. Julianne Moore stars in an incestuous film about the life and savage death of an American socialite

Hoodies: the new film villains

The new cinema baddie looks very familiar. Kevin Maher discovers how British youth can produce terrifying movie moments

TV & Radio 

Life on Mars creators unveil Bonekickers

The Life on Mars team have turned their attention to archaeology with Bonekickers. Have they found gold, asks Terry Ramsey

The show where the stars weep

Why does an American cable show reduce so many celebrities to blubbering wrecks? Caitlin Moran investigates

Big Brother's Jennifer and Rex face eviction

Enemies Jennifer and Rex face eviction from the house, after their fellow housemates nominated them for Friday's public vote

You're Sick! McQueen misses first day

The winner of television contest The Apprentice has called in sick on his first day working for new boss Sir Alan Sugar

Visual arts 

Noguchi's versatile work is big and bold

Sculptor Isamu Noguchi is fêted as America’s Henry Moore. Now it’s our turn to judge, says Morgan Falconer

British Museum 'is most popular'

Museum says last year was its most successful ever as it attracted 6.04m, with the terracotta warriors a key reason

Jean Nouvel - the architect as artist

'Architects take emotions from the streets, the art galleries; they steal,' says the controversial Frenchman

Angel’s little sister fetches £2m at auction

The 6ft 6in version of Antony Gormley’s 65ft original was one of five that he created from a cast of his own body

Times Literary Supplement 

Fair play for the CIA

We must not forget that the CIA was formed in an era of civic trust and patriotism

Storms over stem cells

The biology and politics of a true scientific revolution

The Gods of New Spain

In the conquest of pre-Christian America, the traffic between late-medieval beliefs and local religions was not all one-way

Isaac Rosenberg, an artist in the ranks

A new biography of one of the great War Poets reveals him to be an admirable figure

• Then and Now

Stage 

Short plays: the survival of the one-act wonder

Short plays have been sadly neglected for too long. Why don't theatres like them?

Atkins, the most 'astonishingly lucky person'

She loves lewd limericks, hates sentimentality, and turned down Colin Farrell; Lucy Powell meets the feisty Eileen Atkins

Heirs reach deal over Pavarotti estate

Adriatic villa given to daughters from first marriage but status of American assets left to widow is yet to be settled

Shakespeare's Globe at The frontline

Ché Walker brings the tang of contemporary London street life to Shakespeare’s Globe. Sacrilege or spot-on?

Books  

Wife in the North

How a committed Londoner learnt to love life in Northumberland

The Jew rejected by the Promised Land

The newly created Israel was meant to be a sanctuary for Jews after the Holocaust but some found themselves outcasts once again

How America lost its grip

Even with the best hand in political history, US influence is waning

Snowdon: The Biography by Anne de Courcy

The Times review by Valerie Grove