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Music
Tweeting Reading and Leeds

Twitter feed: We've got bands and journos Tweeting their way around the festival sites all weekend. Follow our updates here
Stage
The best joke in Edinburgh

Series: Edinburgh's funniest comedian and best newcomer will be named tomorrow. In the meantime, allow Paul MacInnes to applaud ...

Art and design
Viking hoard

News: 'Stunning' Viking find of chalice full of jewellery seen as most important discovery of its kind since 1840
- Read G2's archaeology special
TV and radio
Steven Seagal

Blog: In Lawman, the action movie star has become a real-life upholder of the law
- Sarah Dempster on last night's TV
Film
First look at Goats

Blog: George Clooney stars in the big screen version of Jon Ronson's investigation
- Naomi Klein disowns Doctrine documentary
Books
First book award

News: Judges begin process of choosing £10,000 winner from debut works spanning poetry, history and fiction
- Read extracts from all 10 books

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Theatre blog
The crying game of theatre

Tim Etchells: The art of making the audience shed a tear is a tricky business
- What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips
Books blog

Not the Booker prize: A Kind of Intimacy by Jenn Ashworth

Sam Jordison: A kind of sitcom noir with a dangerously unreliable narrator, this is a strange but satisfying book
Film blog

Why class never goes out of fashion on film

Danny Leigh: Whether fawning over toffs or bringing proletariat revenge fantasies to life, movies have become a microcosm of the class struggle
Jones on art

Broken Britain? Don't judge too soon

Jonathan Jones: We might think we're living in catastrophic times, but things are no better – or worse – than they ever were