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... 

Out on the tiles … Francis Alÿs’s A Story of Deception at Tate Modern. Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/Rex Features After the feast, the famine. Well, not entirely – there are still plenty must-see shows around, but it’s probably the quietest week of the year so far for new... 

Lindsay Lohan arriving at Samantha Ronson’s home in Hollywood Hills on March 26, 2009. (X17online.com) Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan sought comfort from ex-girlfriend Samantha Ronson over the weekend after a week of legal woes, the first time the pair have been spotted together in months, TMZ reported... 

Cristiano Ronaldo is now a father. Photograph: Eamonn and James Clarke/EMPICS Entertainment Etiquette update: mentioning “the curse of the Nike advert” is now desperately outmoded – it’s time to start talking about its staggeringly pedestrian vision of the future. Oh sure,... 

Temperature’s rising … Hot tap theatre Last week I saw a play called God Don’t Live On a Council Estate, in which actor Dudley Sutton plays a gangster grandfather, terrorising his family from his council-estate home. In a surreal metaphor for the life-sapping strength of such...