The above is the title of a rather lovely new show at the British Museum (open until October 21st), exhibiting I believe a hundred works from the last fifty years or so in various crafts categories. There are lots of spectacularlt beautiful pieces, p[…]

Uffie – Brand New Car
Supermayer – The Art Of Letting Go
Infernal – Vienna
Aly & AJ – Like Whoa
M.I.A. – Paper Planes
Roisin Murphy – Modern Timing
Sham 69 – Hurry Up Harry
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Every now and then reading the marketing press you see a story and you think, surely the wider media has picked up on this. And apparently it hasn’t. In this case the story that caught my eye was: DOVE TO SHOWCASE EATING DISORDERS IN AD CAMPAIG[…]

Hooray, its beer festival time again. And while the Germans sit in big tents drinking litres of the same beer, we all go to Earls Court to sup sup sup lots of different ales. This years champion beer is a Mild (its mildness being a point of interest […]

I was a bit confused as to why pics of fat cats was news worthy of the BBC. It appears to be a follow up to Fat cats facing soaring diabetes, which is PROPER NEWS.
Considering that previous BBC news ‘send us yr pics’ have ended up includi[…]

There is a very cheap looking advert on a bus stop on the Seven Sisters Road which I mentioned last night in the pub for Skinny Water, a diet water drink. I was pooh-poohed as is the usual way when I said Diet Water, so I took the details. And here i[…]

The Dixie Chicks documentary Shut Up And Sing is so named after a lyric in a recent song, itself derived from a death threat the band got. The Chicks, the biggest selling girl group in US history had pissed off the largely Republican country audience[…]

Remember Woo Suk Hwang? Of course you do. He was the South Korean scientist who got the first stem cells from a cloned embryo. This is a big deal, what with cloning being a bit of a hot topic, and stem cell research even more of a hot topic in certai[…]

CATEGORY ERROR. My brain kept screaming this at me during The Simpsons Movie (I checked with Rob and Carsmile Steve who were sitting next to me and they swear it wasn’t them screaming it, so that just leaves my brain). My brain is a stubborn ol[…]

A question just occurred to me: does the phrase “traditional curtain raiser” get used AT ALL outside of a sporting context?
Actually I wondered if it even got used outside of the Community Shield context, but apparently it does – th[…]