RACHEL STEVENS – “Sweet Dreams (My L.A. Ex)”
Check out the parentheses for how seriously Rachel S Club is taking the whole grown-up market thing. Not only has she been going out with someone, not only was that someone from exoticall[…]

UK Readers: if you’re reading this on Sunday, and you have a pound or so to spare, pick up a copy of The Observer. Its Sports Monthly has a special edition this week, with the ‘Fifty Greatest Sports Photographs’ – a good read,[…]

There’s a lot of lame Hornboid detritus silted up round the idea of the mix-tape, all the more urgent to clear up for its being half-true, or worse. A letter from a convalescent friend put me in mind to make some, and send them to her: the task[…]

Two weeks in a row I’ve worked out who the perp was in Law & Order: SVU about 45 minutes before the (none-too-likeable) detectives did. This is very boring – why didn’t they watch Cannon as kids? That’s where I learnt to […]

I work for an org that publishes a magazine and runs a gallery, and fairly often the former runs articles on work featured in the latter. Maybe it’s just because I love magazines so so so much that I quite often find I prefer the (yes v.high-st[…]

Well, I can say one good thing regarding Chuck Austen’s upcoming gigs on Action Comics and The Avengers – it’ll save me an extra couple of bucks every month. While his thoughts on what to do with Marvel’s Greatest Heroes soun[…]

It’s All In The Mind is a good blog I only found today – I read this entry on Auden and Rilke just after I’d written the Lene review below. Few are fonder than I of queasy middle Englishness but I see what he’s getting at &#82[…]

Some of the other pop logs have been talking this one up and they’re quite correct. Lene Nystrom used to be in Aqua and now songwrites for Girls Aloud among others: “Duty” could have fetched good money on the pop transfer market but[…]

or publisher, but I always assume debutantes to be female. It is the fault of the publisher that Gary Shteyngart’s The Russian Debutante’s Handbook has a picture of a woman on the cover. Whilst there are a few strong female characters in […]

There is a point during the new print of Mr Hulot’s Holiday currently screening in London where there is a slight frisson of fear amongst the audience. Is this going to be subtitled? It is an interesting question – much is made of Jacque […]