Searle’s gone and done it again. Finding little or nothing to criticize in the two concurrent Bill Viola shows in London (the Haunch of Venison one is over now, I think), Adrian Searle decides to lay into the critical texts around the work (the[…]

I fear that my new favourite drink, Pepsi Twist, is not long for these shores. A full fat version of the puritanical and chemistry set tasting Diet Coke with Lemon, Pepsi Twist has not been given a huge marketing push in the UK. But it has the balanc[…]

Interstella 5555: The 5tory Of The 5ecret 5tar 5ystem. Look the letter S looks a bit like the number five. A bit like the letter V looked nothing like the number 7 in Se7en. (A friend who works in publishing told me how much that little slight of han[…]

THE PUMPKIN ADVENT CALENDAR OF ALCOHOL: December 4. 4-5% by volume
CARLING BLACK LABEL
No-one ever said that every door on this advent calendar had to be nice. Instead a few musings on Britain’s most popular lager. Cheap, nasty, stuck in a no-[…]