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Why so frumpy, asks Linda Grant. She launches an attack on beige sacks and other garments that are not out of date but never fashionable in the first place ...  read more »

Playing "Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Edition" on the child-friendly Nintendo DS is a bit like "putting vodka in a baby’s bottle," writes Tom Standage in his latest gaming column ...  read more »

He’s the Britpop boy who grew up to be a rock renaissance man. Laura Barton charts his leaps and bounds ...  read more »

To the outside world, it’s a festival, a castle, a university, a tin of shortbread and a drone of bagpipes. To Jackie Hunter, it’s home, and it’s more about coping with the weather ...  read more »

Before long, your car could be driving you. Paul Markillie gets a foretaste ...  read more »

A film star has a new role: selling philanthropy to the Chinese. Jet Li talks to Matthew Bishop and Michael Green ...  read more »

To many visitors, and locals, America is the sum of its roads, but these days its long love affair with the car seems less of a gas. Rebecca Willis and family take a trip through the Rockies ...  read more »

Satanic climaxes, perilous fireworks, duelling fencers: there's nothing quite so seductive to piano students as a nearly unplayable piece of music. Irving Wardle finds some models on iTunes ...  read more »

How green is your sushi? Natasha Loder takes a marine biologist to lunch at Nobu to find out ...  read more »

The Hotel du Vin chain of boutique hotels take their alcohol seriously. In his latest column, Tim Atkin heads to one in Birmingham to sniff the 750-bin wine list ...  read more »