This is the last edition of the Friday Sound and Vision pages in The Irish Times. From next week, all film, video and CD reviews will appear in our new entertainment and listings supplement, The Ticket, published every Wednesday. With features, interviews, news and comment, The Ticket will provide a comprehensive weekly listings guide to the worlds of arts and entertainment, covering everything from theatre in Donegal to clubbing in Cork. Our writers will point you towards the best films, concerts, plays and exhibitions currently running and keep you abreast of what's around the corner in the days and weeks to come. Each week we'll also be offering our readers complimentary tickets and exclusive previews.

Our aim with The Ticket is to improve the service to our readers, who, research has shown, form the most enthusiastic and knowledgeable audience in the country for arts and entertainment in their many and various forms. We are already the only national newspaper to publish reviews of every new film in the week in which it is released, and we will continue to offer the most informed coverage of cinema and video releases. Our new music review section will be broader and more comprehensive, with our critics selecting CDs of the week across all genres.

With columns from Michael Dwyer and Brian Boyd, and a new column on clubbing from Jim Carroll, we'll be testing the temperature of popular culture, while Aidan Dunne (visual arts), Gerry Colgan (theatre) Michael Dervan (classical music) and Tony Clayton-Lea (rock and pop) will all be giving weekly recommendations in their specialist fields.

As editor of The Ticket, I look forward to providing this new service to our readers, which will complement the already extensive arts and cultural coverage in our daily Arts pages, Weekend supplement and Saturday Magazine.