It's the weekend! The sun is out! It's nearly what you might call SPRING. So get your glad rags on... We've got plenty to do!
Discover WOW
The Women of the World festival does exactly as it says on the tin, with creative director Jude Kelly transforming London’s South Bank into a glorious, global conglomerate of super smart women making important changes. Performers number Bridget Christie, Sarah Millican and Salma Hayek, speakers include Annie Lennox, Lauren Laverne and Sarah Brown. It’s the biggest festival of woman power in the country. Indulge. On now until Sunday 8th March, tickets at southbankcentre.co.uk/wow.
Read Kim Gordon Girl in a Band
Best rock memoir since Patti Smith’s Just Kids, hands down. The irrepressible Sonic Youth star, former Marc Jacobs muse and official coolest chick in NY documents rock highs and love lows in a beautifully bitter prose style. Essential. Out now, £18.49 published by Faber.
Don’t miss Still Alice
Winner of just about every lead-actress prize this awards season, Julianne Moore devastates as a linguistics professor who loses her facility with language. In fact, it’s worse: she’s diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Kristen Stewart and Alec Baldwin add heft as family members, but it’s the Julianne show. In cinemas from Friday. HHHH
Enjoy Cahoots
Latest drinking venture from the reliable Inception Group is super-styled as a post-War underground station. A little taste of the 40s, from a more illicit time perhaps encouraging more illicit behaviour? There’s even an old Joanna in the corner. Watch yourselves out there. Opens Thursday March 4th, at Kingly Court, London W1.
See Appropriate Behaviour
She was a scene-stealer when Hannah hit the Iowa Writer's Workhop in Girls, and now Desiree Akhavan is showing off her own slashie status with this credible Brooklyn comedy about a girl suffering an identity crisis after her love life falls flat and her career hits the skids. HHHH
Hear Madonna Rebel Heart
The queen of Everything, the female Elvis, the unapologetic b**** (her words, her song) returns with her (rebel) heart set on taking the mainstream once more, by any means necessary. The collaborators are wide-reaching and fresh, the artwork is brilliant and, I mean, come on everyone: she’s MADONNA. Out Monday.
Book now for Wildnerness Festival
Bjork headlines, her brilliant, personal new album Vulnicura a perfectly pastoral soundtrack for the charmed woodland setting. George Clinton brings the bonkers funk, Roisin Murphy the poised disco. Hix, Moro and Petersham Nursuries bring the food. Failsafe. Booking now for August 6th-9th. Tickets at wildernessfestival.com.
See Gary Wallis: McQueen Backstage: The Early Shows
In anticipation of McQueen mania (McQueenia?) descending on the V&A, a rare chance to see early photos of the designer at work and play by an old Saint Martin’s College alumnus of his from the early 90s. At Proud Galleries, London, from today 3rd March until 5th April.
Discover Hyena
Foreign-born, UK-trained actresses Elisa Lasowski and MyAnna Buring provide vital balance in this macho London thriller about a corrupt cop (Peter Ferdinando) meeting his match in a pair of ruthless Albanian gangsters. Strong stomachs will be rewarded with a gripping, gritty tale, elevated by a class cast. In cinemas from Friday. HHHH
Bury yourself in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant
Brilliant, award-scooping novelist responsible for Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go returns with his highly anticipated new novel, set dextrously amid the ruins of post-Roman Britain. Writing doesn’t come more enchanting or intoxicating than his. Out today March 3rd, £20, published