The Folio

No. 24Jess Entwistle

SpaceX goes for Starship’s first orbital test flight early this morning, UK time.

Front page

  1. Culture · Music

    Madonna opens the VMAs with her first performance there in 23 years, joined by Sabrina Carpenter and Charli XCX

  2. Culture · Music

    Taylor Swift takes Video of the Year and premieres the ‘Patient Zero’ video with Dakota Johnson and Colin Farrell

  3. Culture · Music

    Teyana Taylor’s plunging lace gown leads a daring night of VMAs fashion

  4. Culture · Music

    Kacey Musgraves honours Dolly Parton with ‘I Will Always Love You’

  5. Culture · Theatre

    Neil Patrick Harris will lead a Damn Yankees Broadway revival in spring 2027

  6. Culture · Film

    Sabrina Carpenter to play Ginger Rogers opposite Tom Holland in Fred Astaire biopic

  7. Culture · TV

    The Last of Us season 3 casts two video game actors along with a major Hollywood star

  8. Home

    A Victorian Scottish castle thoughtfully restored with layered colours, patterns and antiques

  9. Weddings

    Handmade, homegrown and undeterred by a storm: an Isle of Skye elopement

  10. Travel · Disney

    Avengers Endgame: Encore opens at No. 1 as Marvel Studios crosses $35 billion globally

In this edition

  1. Culture

    Film, TV, Music, Theatre, Books

  2. Travel

    Disney, Hotels

  3. Food

  4. Weddings

  5. Home

  6. Beauty

  7. Work

  8. Tech

Read and listen

  1. Read

    The Most Dangerous Thing in Culture Right Now is Beauty

  2. Listen · Kermode & Mayo’s Take

    Is Wicked Pop-u-lar with Mark?

  3. Listen · The Rest Is Entertainment

    I Want My MTV! - The Youthquake Begins (Part 1)

  4. Listen · Song Exploder

    A-ha - Take On Me

Today’s playlists

  1. Wake up · 12 songs

    Slow light

  2. Shower · 12 songs

    Sing in the steam

  3. Work · 12 songs

    Steady hands

  4. Car · 12 songs

    Windows down

Reading

  1. Fiction · read by Julia Whelan and Zachary Webber

    Yours Truly

Ambience

And finally

  1. Something good

    A joyful place: a new museum coaxes Austrians to embrace The Sound of Music