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Will Gompertz: I'm talentless – I can't paint, I can't draw, I can't sing
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Sheryl Crow: 'I was a people-pleaser and I had to unlearn that'
Agenda p5
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The 10 best public gardens
Agenda p6
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Oliver Stone and the politics of film-making
Features p8
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Nick Clegg as a cartoon figure - it's fun but does it really hurt?
Nick Clegg is now a target for political cartoonists and is not faring well. The images are harsh and cause political damage - but there is a way out for the deputy PM, says Peter Preston
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Chris Riddell creates Little Clegg Riding Hood
Features p12
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Plácido Domingo: 'I am a very happy man, but I love to suffer on stage'
Five decades into his brilliant career as one of the world's great tenors, Plácido Domingo – now a baritone – is working as hard as ever. Catch him while you can, says Peter Conrad
Features p14
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The big picture: fashion shoot, 1975
Features p16
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Google's latest invention may lead to a severe loss of app-etite
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Dogs in space: a cosmonaut's best friend
Discover p21
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Tutankhamun – the secrets of the tomb go online
Discover p22
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New to Nature No 14: Utricularia regia
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Martha Lane Fox: I intend to get the whole country online
Martha Lane Fox, the government's digital champion, aims to make Britain the world's most networked nation by 2012, writes Aleks Krotoski
Discover p24
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Inception
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Trailer trash
Critics p26
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Rapt
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The Concert
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Bluebeard
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Toy Story 3
Critics p27
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Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
Emma Thompson continues to weave her spell in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, while the national treasure that is Dr Feelgood is celebrated in Oil City Confidential -
Le grand jeu
This classic French battle between love, fate and bewitching passion set a pattern for later hits such as Casablanca, writes Philip French
Critics p28
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Sargent and the Sea
Critics p29
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Professor Green: Alive Till I'm Dead
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RPA and the United Nations of Sound: United Nations of Sound
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Endless Boogie: Full House Head
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Mount Kimbie: Crooks & Lovers
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Sheryl Crow: 100 Miles From Memphis
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Jacky Terrasson: Push
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Loudon Wainwright III: 10 Songs for the New Depression
Critics p31
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Observer Killer Sudoku
Fill the grid using the numbers 1 to 9. Each number must appear just once in every row, column and 3x3 box.
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Observer sudoku
Fill the grid using the numbers 1 to 9. Each number must appear just once in every row, column and 3x3 box
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The xx; the Coral
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Garden festival
Charts and puzzles p32
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Aspects of Love; Lifegame; The Railway Children
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Henry IV Parts 1 and 2
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The Mikado
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue
Critics p34
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The best performance I've ever seen: David Edgar
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Swan Lake
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Charlie Cox: 'Al Pacino called me on my birthday but I thought it was a prank'
Critics p35
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Crackdown 2
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APB: All Points Bulletin
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PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure
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Toy Story 3
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Today; Live Aid 25; London: Just Off the Plane
Critics p36
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The Duchess of Malfi; La traviata
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Sinikka Langeland: Maria's Song
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Mahler recomposed by Matthew Herbert: Symphony X
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Dvorák: Symphonies No 7 and 8
Critics p37
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The Third Man by Peter Mandelson
Books p39
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Driving Home by Jonathan Raban
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Debut fiction: Mr Peanut by Adam Ross; Who Is Mr Satoshi? by Jonathan Lee; Tinkers by Paul Harding
Books p40
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The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick