Graining champion: winning riffs on rice

Michael White’s classical & jazz news: Classics Explained; Gresham College; Anti-heroes

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: The Red Shoes; Dancing Nation; Press Play Here; Lungs; Public Domain

Virtual: the new reality

Give peace no chance: how Hoover hunted Martin Luther King

The Grand Old Man of India

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: The Girl and the Raven; Waiting for Obama; Overflow; Faith Healer

Tome time

Michael White’s classical & jazz news: Sir Simon Rattle; Stephen Hough; Raymond Yiu

GROOVES: Smith & Burrows; Inside Out; Sing For Freedom Choir; Celtic Connections

A fare of the heart

All The Vermeers In New York: tasteful portrait of 1990s Big Apple

Lives in Transit: lost in a cruel immigration system

Girls from the black stuff

Morris mores

Red blueprint

Michael White’s classical & jazz news: Wasfi Kani; Vienna State Opera; The Met; Guildhall School of Music

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Hymn; Relatively Speaking; Good; 101 Dalmations

That Dinner of ’67 revisits a Hollywood classic