By Tessa Nolan In September 2024, a 26-year-old singer from Missouri walked onto the stage of the O2 Academy Brixton for the first of three…
By Tessa Nolan On 11 September 1979, a fifteen-year-old Portuguese boy boarded a plane leaving Lisbon, armed with a scholarship, a clandestine camera, and the…
By Tessa Nolan There is a prejudice so embedded in Western culture that most people never think to question it: the assumption that the ability…
By Tessa Nolan When Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour landed at Wembley Stadium on 21 June 2024, it did not simply arrive as another stop on…
By Tessa Nolan When readers of Creativity’s UK shared their highlights from the BBC Proms in late 2024, the picture they painted was familiar: the…
By Tessa Nolan Two years ago, when I first wrote about Palworld for this publication, it was a pre-release curiosity – a survival game with…
By Tessa Nolan When Palworld launched on 18 January 2024, it sold four million copies in three days. By the end of that month, 25…
By Tessa Nolan When a New York jury deadlocked for the second time in a year on Harvey Weinstein’s rape charge on 15 May 2026…
By Tessa Nolan When Mark Velvet released “Redline” in July 2023, the track arrived as a two-minute burst of pulsating synths and driving percussion that…
By Tessa Nolan When Tschabalala Self’s Lady in Blue is craned onto the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square this September, it will mark a quiet…