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• Darren Hayman’s paintings of London at night – in pictures

  15-07-2023 18:00
  
  While taking his dog for an evening walk and looking through all the “lonely windows”, the British musician and artist Darren Hayman, best known as lead singer and guitarist of the band Hefner, was inspired to create a series of night paintings. ‘The idea happened perhaps through feeling envy,’ he says. ‘When you’re out late at night, these squares of light represent people safely at home, which is where you want to be.’ Now the paintings, accompanied by
  
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• ‘These courts seemed bursting with potential for a decisive moment’: David Ingraham’s best phone picture

  15-07-2023 11:00
  
  Can ‘the simple, serendipitous beauty of day-to-day life’ really be found in a handball hangout?There’s an old handball court at Venice Beach that David Ingraham – a musician as well as photographer – describes as a “quintessentially southern California location”. It is, the Young Dubliners drummer says, “always busy and wonderfully diverse, packed with people from all over the world, making it a prime street-photography spot”.He doesn’
  
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• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One to The Bear: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

  15-07-2023 07:00
  
  Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt, and the acclaimed US restaurant drama returns. Here are all the essential cultural happenings over the next seven daysMission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
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  Between this and Harrison Ford doing one more Indiana Jones movie, it is the summer of action seniors, with Tom Cruise back in the saddle as Ethan Hunt, the guy who has solved so many of these supposedly unfeasible quests that he’s beginning to look like the boy who cried impossibl
  
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