Prog rock – the music that refused to die. Illustration by Jiro Bevis. At the end of 2008, the journalist Jerry Ewing pitched an idea for a new magazine to a publishing company. His idea was a magazine dedicated entirely to progressive rock, long reviled in the critical mainstream as... 

Natalia Osipova performing Giselle by the Bolshoi Ballet. Photograph: Damir Yusupov The Bolshoi Ballet, London Three kinds of Russia are brought together in the Bolshoi’s mixed bill, which takes its title from Alexei Ratmansky’s wittily crafted celebration of Russian folk dance.... 

‘Peter Jackson would be shearing sheep without him’ … Ray Harryhausen and Jackson (right) share the stage. Photograph: Brian J Ritchie, BFI and Bafta It was nearing the end of Bafta’s Ray Harryhausen 90th birthday tribute at the BFI Southbank last Saturday that special... 

April 2, 2005: Actor Hayden Christiansen arrives at Nickelodeon’s 18th annual Kids’ Choice Awards at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion in Westwood, California. The Force apparently was not with “Star Wars” actor Hayden Christensen when he pitched an idea for a new television series to... 

Linda Stay joined forces with filmmaker Reed Cowan to detail the prominent role the Mormons played in the reinstatement of Prop 8 in the new documentary “8: The Mormon Proposition.” Following a lengthy investigation, California’s Fair Political Practices Commission ordered The Church of...