VERONICA GUERIN (by way of The General and When The Sky Falls)
In Veronica Guerin Cate Blanchett plays Joan Allen playing Sinead Hamilton in When The Sky Falls who is actually Veronica Guerin. Its okay, if that looks confusing there is a precedent fo[…]

Something Interesting About The Beatles!: article from the Guardian (licensed from History Today) on growing up in Soviet Russia listening to the band – gets a bit dewy-eyed towards the end when it draws conclusions but mostly the article is an[…]

Last night on Bad Girls, Christopher Biggins (playing himself) and his partner adopted Buki’s six year old disabled son and invited her to live with them on her release in 4 months time. Also, we discovered that new screw Selena has joined the[…]

Kathleen Kiirik Bryson’s Wilderness
Prowler Stores, Kings X, London, til 8th September
The exhibition here covers roughly a decade of one person’s need to create images. A series of mental collages, hybrid beings and iconic wicked-women, […]

They will keep doing this, won’t they? On first hearing this single I was ready to rush to Blogger with an early-review hatchet-job; but where some have monkeys on their backs I have a sloth, and for once I am in its debt. I confined myself to […]

You may have noticed that things look different here. Ahem. As you probably know, Freaky Trigger has relaunched, and relaunched with not one but four (soon to be five) regular weblogs, covering a spectrum of culture where NYLPM previously covered mus[…]

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE – “Senorita”
I’m kind of at a loss for words here. I’ve made ripping JT into one of my favorite online activities, but now I’m presented with a song that minimizes the things I hate about his sin[…]

Weirdly disappointed and frustrated by this thread on ILX. Partly at myself – my arguments won’t cohere and so I’m just batting replies around – but partly at something I’ve noticed when talking about certain records. Th[…]

(until 27 September.)
Sorry to say, but the Fruitmarket’s festival exhibition leaves me cold this year. I’m sure I’ll end up popping back in, so I’ll get a chance to think again, but today the work of the four female photograp[…]

The Spiegelgarden, Edinburgh
Your temporary festival beer-fountain is always a risky prospect. Some of the attics, basements and back bedrooms converted into licensed premises during August in Edinburgh can amount to little more than a couple of cans[…]