The Edinburgh festival – how was it for you? | Andrew Dickson

Who were your festival knockouts …? Ryan Fletcher and Taqi Nazeer in Beautiful Burnout by Frantic Assembly at the Edinburgh festival. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian For me, it’s a dead heat between a group of Belgian teenagers disappearing into a wonderland beneath the... 

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Musicians’ greatest on-stage moments

‘It blows my mind that Jimmy Page wanted to play with us’ … Aerosmith. Photograph: Andre Csillag / Rex Features/Andre Csillag/Rex Features Corinne Bailey Rae, singer There have been so many amazing moments in my career so far: coming off stage to find Prince had been in the audience,... 

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Condoleezza Rice and Aretha Franklin perform duet in charity concert

Condoleezza Rice plays piano and Aretha Franklin sings at the Mann Centre in Philadelphia last night as they raised money for urban children. Photograph: Bill Mccay/Bill McCay/WireImage.com It was an unlikely pairing. Stage left, Condoleezza Rice, the former Republican darling, a classically... 

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Avril Lavigne Hot In A Bikini Top And Wetsuit

Avril Lavigne Hot In A Bikini Top And Wetsuit RSS FeedAvril Lavigne Hot In A Bikini Top And Wetsuit...

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TV review: Mad Men and Bang Goes The Theory

‘Hell, it’s good’ … Jon Hamm as Don Draper and Christina Hendricks as Joan Holloway. Photograph: BBC/AMC/Lionsgate/Frank Ockenfels 3/AMC/Lionsgate At last, the wait is over. Autumn may be here, but autumn’s here with series four of Mad Men (BBC4), so suddenly autumn’s... 

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