Transcender Festival is back at the Barbican in the autumn

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Hampstead Parish Church piano recital; Kundalini yogic music artists at Union Chapel, World Folk Music at Wigmore Hall

Monteverdi milestone for Hampstead Garden Opera

When I get older…

Deep Blue fish and chips joins foodie transformation of Fleet Road

Hame thoughts from abroad

There is such a thing as (café) society

Get set for this year’s Proms at St Jude’s

Sebastian Taylor’s music news: Blaze Ensemble, jazz sextet Maisha, violinist Eugene Feygelson at Burgh House, Harlem Meer Cats in the Crypt of St Martin-in-the-Fields

Baroquestock promises to be a feast of an early music festival

Julie Tomlin’s theatre news: Madame Rubinstein

Review: Spring Offensive at Clapham Omnibus

Review: The Plague at Arcola Theatre

Dan Carrier’s movie news: The Transfiguration and Letters from Baghdad

Review: Bunch of Kunst

Review: Their Finest

Page against the machine!

Róisín Gadelrab’s music news: Hip-hop at Sadler’s Wells; Portobello Live; Record Store Day