One to Watch: Woodkid

He has directed music videos for Lana Del Ray, Katy Perry, Drake and Rihanna but now it’s his turn to take the limelight.

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Pusher (87 mins, 18)

Errors & Omissions: The sordid world of newspaper story introductions

A news story published on Thursday began like this: “Sarah Tressler, a 30-year-old stripper who worked the gentlemen's clubs of Houston, had a guilty secret: she earned a second income in the sordid world of newspaper journalism.”

Pusher, Edinburgh International Film FestivaL

High times in a streetwise and sleazy Brit flick with lots of drive

Chung says: 'It was a brilliant party until we all fell over in front of the paparazzi: that wasn't so cool'

How We Met: Henry Holland & Alexa Chung

Alexa Chung, 28

Pusher, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Luis Prieto

The British remake of Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn's Pusher, receiving its world premiere in Edinburgh this week, shares the same relentless narrative tempo that made the 1996 original so distinctive.

Cannes Diary: The next best thing to Orson Welles

Ed Norton invoked the spirit of one of Hollywood's greats in praising Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom. "Wes has put together one of the great troupes," he said, before adding that anyone who knew about Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre had "the dream of being in such a company".

Lindsay Duncan puts on a show in Hay Fever

Hay Fever, Noël Coward Theatre, London
The Leisure Society, Trafalgar Studios, London
All New People, Duke of York's Theatre, London

A darker play lurks under Coward's smart shenanigans, but Howard Davies' production seems content to bob along on the surface

Brown shoe sales soar as men jettison sartorial rules

Snappy dressers follow in Fred Astaire's footsteps and don tan brogues

Kate factor – coat sells out on Burberry website

As spectators speculated on her bridal gown at the Paris catwalks, Kate Middleton opted for a more homegrown and traditional look this week as she ventured out to meet her public on Shrove Tuesday.

Camera obscurer: Meet the enthusiasts that are determined to keep photo booths alive

Remember when photo booths were fun places to pull a face, sit on laps and make memories, rather than just take passport shots?

The Alexa Factor

She is the secret of Mulberry's success, a cover girl guaranteed to shift magazines, and a fixture at the catwalks. How does Alexa Chung do it?

Letters: Benefits

Back to the Poor Law

The new craze? It's silly

Celebrities are wearing them, so these wristbands must be the latest fashion fad

Coco Sumner - Every little thing Sting's daughter does is magic

Teenager Coco Sumner has a three-album deal with Island Records and has modelled with Agyness Deyn. She tells Charlotte Cripps she is enjoying making it on her own
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The great war photographer was not one person but two. Their pictures of Spain's civil war, lost for decades, tell a heroic tale
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The unmade speech: An alternative draft of history

Someone, somewhere has to write speeches for world leaders to deliver in the event of disaster. They offer a chilling hint at what could have been
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Funny business: Meet the women running comedy

Think comedy’s a man's world? You must be stuck in the 1980s, says Holly Williams
Wilko Johnson: 'You have to live for the minute you're in'

Wilko Johnson: 'You have to live for the minute you're in'

The Dr Feelgood guitarist talks frankly about his terminal illness
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Lure of the jingle

Entrepreneurs are giving vintage ice-cream vans a new lease of life
Who stole the people's own culture?

DJ Taylor: Who stole the people's own culture?

True popular art drives up from the streets, but the commercial world wastes no time in cashing in
Guest List: The IoS Literary Editor suggests some books for your summer holiday

Guest List: IoS Literary Editor suggests some books for your summer holiday

Before you stuff your luggage with this year's Man Booker longlist titles, the case for some varied poolside reading alternatives
What if Edward Snowden had stayed to fight his corner?

Rupert Cornwell: What if Edward Snowden had stayed to fight his corner?

The CIA whistleblower struck a blow for us all, but his 1970s predecessor showed how to win
'A man walks into a bar': Comedian Seann Walsh on the dangers of mixing alcohol and stand-up

Comedian Seann Walsh on alcohol and stand-up

Comedy and booze go together, says Walsh. The trouble is stopping at just the one. So when do the hangovers stop being funny?
From Edinburgh to Hollywood (via the Home Counties): 10 comedic talents blowing up big

Edinburgh to Hollywood: 10 comedic talents blowing up big

Hugh Montgomery profiles the faces to watch, from the sitcom star to the surrealist
'Hello. I have cancer': When comedian Tig Notaro discovered she had a tumour she decided the show must go on

Comedian Tig Notaro: 'Hello. I have cancer'

When Notaro discovered she had a tumour she decided the show must go on
They think it's all ova: Bill Granger's Asia-influenced egg recipes

Bill Granger's Asia-influenced egg recipes

Our chef made his name cooking eggs, but he’s never stopped looking for new ways to serve them
The world wakes up to golf's female big hitters

The world wakes up to golf's female big hitters

With its own Tiger Woods - South Korea's Inbee Park - the women's game has a growing audience
10 athletes ready to take the world by storm in Moscow next week

10 athletes ready to take the world by storm in Moscow next week

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The Last Word: Luis Suarez and Gareth Bale's art of manipulation

The Last Word: Luis Suarez and Gareth Bale's art of manipulation

Briefings are off the record leading to transfer speculation which is merely a means to an end