A cover so humble that it’s almost just a mix, but glued to my playlist anyway. I don’t know what people were expecting from this – self-reference? snare rushes? sex? – but what they’re getting is a faithful version, with a litt[…]

Helvetica vs Arial a tiny shockwave game for the hardcore typographer. Helvetica, the original sans-serif, has for too long been losing out to the classic pincer action of a younger, trendier, Meta coming in from above and the lousier, cheaper, Arial[…]

The South is doing wonders for the poetry scene in, well, the South, sticking its neck out to promote our writers and take on the projects everyone wants to do but somehow never gets to round to… unique events like tonight’s reading help […]

The Neptunes Present… Clones
Let’s get the bad bit out of the way immediately. What is this Spymob/High Speed Scene pair of tracks in the middle of the album? Tedious rock tracks that are utterly out of keeping and not obviously linked in[…]

Three more interesting things about the Black Bull:
ONE: it’s that rare treat, a reverse TARDIS pub. It looks like it’ll be some vast wasteland of tables and chairs and misery from the mock-Tudor exterior but it turns out to be a comfort[…]

The Black Bull in Whitechapel is a nice enough, rough and tumble kind of boozer, and despite what FAP says, they had a corking beer from suffolk (Nethergate’s Augustinian) on last nite. i only frequent this pub when we’re on our way to […]

Sleepy and tired are two different things, and the former can be quite nice on occasion, when you give your body the chance to just settle. A couple of moments in a day to do nothing, just think yourself a perfect blank, can be wonderful.
Depictions […]

the mag with the pretty pictures and reviews that deep throat farther then linda lovelace ever had, has gone up 3 bucks and added 20 per cent more ad copy.
i had bought it every month for years, more and more disappointed, but still out of habit, an[…]

THE BROWN LOG: EDGE
What is the Brown Log? Part of the Wedge’s remit is talk about magazines. And where better to read magazines than on the bog? Every week I will buy a magazine – sometimes one I’d normally get, often one I’d[…]

With some pride and not a little enthusiasm, my source at Paramount announced that they were going to the UK Premier of the second Tomb Raider movie on Tuesday (in its entirety: Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life – they really must sort[…]