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The ObserverDanceFrom TV’s ‘Strictly’ to films about Nureyev and Acosta, the art form once dismissed as elitist is everywhere. One dance critic explains why… It feels like the future,” says the BBC’s director of arts Jonty Claypole. “In tackling some of the inequalities that still exist around the arts, you can do far worse than look at the way dance is merging traditional notions of high art and popular art, and attracting mixed, diverse, multi-generational audiences.

OpinionDonald Trump This article is more than 1 month oldAmericans are hoping the courts will spare them an electoral reckoning with TrumpThis article is more than 1 month oldLawrence DouglasColorado’s supreme court concluded the ex-president could not hold office. Alas, the US supreme court will probably not agree “This is how dictatorships are born.” Such was Donald Trump’s response to news that the Colorado supreme court had ruled that the former president is disqualified from holding office and so should be removed from the state’s Republican primary ballot.

Daily Mirror This article is more than 10 years oldDaily Mirror's spoof Page 3 posters too risqué for London UndergroundThis article is more than 10 years oldNewspaper aims to position itself as smarter than rivals in campaign mimicking Sun's topless modelsThe Daily Mirror has spoofed the Sun's topless Page 3 model feature in the opening salvo of a campaign to position itself as "smarter" than tabloid rivals. On Monday the Trinity Mirror daily replaced its typical Page 3 layout with a full page ad that mimics the Sun's tradition of using a shot of a scantily clad model.

Name and shameCelebrity This article is more than 9 months oldI showed Bruce Springsteen my Bruce Springsteen tattoo. He said he didn’t like itThis article is more than 9 months oldEmma ForrestIn the first of her nine weekly columns, the author and screenwriter looks back on a life shaped by her icons, from Tim Curry to the Beastie Boys When this newspaper asked me to write a weekly personal column I said I’d do it, if I could refract it through the icons who shaped me, a different one each issue.

NOOKS AND CRANNIESIf you keep your fireworks after the sell-by date, will they go off? Jeremy Whiteley, Oxford, UK YES quite certainly! The ability of black powder ( which largely fills fireworks ) to be long lasting is well known. It is not unknown for antique firearms and ammunition to be fired accidentally after being found loaded after 200 years or more. As an art & antique restorer, I warn about this possibility in my guide to handling antiques, "

International Women's Day This article is more than 12 years oldJames Bond video for international women's day shows 007's feminine sideThis article is more than 12 years oldDaniel Craig and Dame Judi Dench team up for two-minute film highlighting the need for gender equalityDaniel Craig wears woman's clothes for a film to coincide with International Women's Day EqualsHe's bedded, rescued, loved and lost his fair share of women over more than half a century, but has James Bond ever paused to consider the rates of sexual assault of young girls going to school in the developing world?

The Arizona Snowbowl ski resort in Flagstaff occupies 777 acres on a mountain slope that Indigenous nations hold sacred. Photograph: Tomás Karmelo Amaya/The GuardianThe debate over an Arizona ski resort’s future has exposed two vastly different visions of the American west: ‘Nuva’tukya’ovi is our Mount Sinai’ by Annette McGivney in Flagstaff, Arizona with photographs by Tomás Karmelo AmayaHopi farmer Bucky Preston talks to the clouds that form atop Arizona’s tallest mountain.

North Carolina This article is more than 2 months oldTails I win: coin toss sends North Carolina candidate into mayor’s officeThis article is more than 2 months oldRobert Burns and Bob Yanacsek tie for 970 votes in race for Monroe mayor – and Burns wins it after Yanacsek incorrectly calls heads In US politics, the slimmer the margins, the crazier things can get. And that reality has vaulted the winner of a coin flip into the mayor’s office of a North Carolina city.

GamesIt was the decade Sonic the Hedgehog, the original PlayStation, the Nintendo 64 and so much more entered the world – here are the 15 best games of this golden age of gaming 15. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge (1991, LucasArts)Of all LucasArts’ memorable, quip-fuelled point and click adventures – from dark afterlife comedy Grim Fandango to the surrealist Day of the Tentacle – it’s Monkey Island 2 that gets the most love nowadays, and justifiably so.