Three big musical acts, Alicia keys, Jay-Z and Sade, are booked for a good cause. They are tapped to perform at the annual Black Ball charity concert at New York’s Hammerstein Ball on September 30. This gig is organized by Alicia’s Keep a Child Alive organization. “Sade? Jay-Z?... 

Gregory Woo in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, part of Family Friendly Film Festival Photograph: Robert Zuckerman Family Friendly Film Festival, Manchester Summer holiday’s sorted for Manchester parents for the next fortnight. And you don’t even need to feel guilty about plonking... 

Cash or credit? … Leonardo DiCaprio, left, and Ellen Page in Inception. Photograph: Warner Bros/AP It may be one of the summer’s darker ironies that, as government ministers vie to find out quite how little can be spent on the nation’s health and education, the film industry... 

Ruby Wax: ‘one of the best interviewers ever’. Photograph: Antonio Olmos for the Observer The First Time With… | iPlayer Jarvis Cocker’s Sunday Service | iPlayer Chain Reaction | iPlayer The Reunion | Back from a month abroad, where they will insist on conducting conversations...