Flavours are unlocked at buzzy Nook

Michael White’s classical & jazz news: Beethoven’s 250th; The Lark Ascending; Open-air N8; Owen Wingrave

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Forever Plaid; Theatre Café Channel; Dick Whittington; Exit the King; Little Match Girl

Stanley Baxter: publish and be damed

Supping with Shane, golden boy of Irish punk rock

Tales of the unexpected

GROOVES: Gigs are back; Ollie Usiskin; Tankus The Henge; BST

Mangrove Nine: justice in the dock

Hip hop to it as Sadler’s Wells opens up

Michael White’s classical & jazz news: Roderick Williams; Messiah; Wigmore Hall

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: The Dumb Waiter; Star of Park; Nine Lessons and Carols; The Gruffalo’s Child

Shane MacGowan: the man behind the fairytales

Audrey Hepburn: going behind the beauty

It’s hats off to the capital’s great stations

Menace by the Mersey in Fare

Michael White’s classical & jazz news: L’Enfant et les Sortilèges; Royal Philharmonic Society Awards

Lucy Popescu’s theatre news: Hope at Home; The Kids are Alright; An Ice Thing to Say

Raise a glass to entrepreneurial spirits

Michael Kiwanuka: class struggle

Algernon Swinburne: poetry’s whipping boy