CHEEKY CURRY
My favourite Tooting curry house varies according to mood, but this month Amma, on the Mitcham Road, has a pretty strong claim. It serves rich (but rarely unsubtle), tasty South Indian food which is just right for chilly evenings –[…]

Beyond Zone 7: Beer in space – of course it has been tried. It would be stronger than earth beer according to drink scientists but you would need to drink it out of a plastic bag. This suggests to me that space beer is in fact Tennents Super.[…]

Nothing to see here…
…but Popular is, how you say, ‘back’. And it has something that Alan tells me I shouldn’t actually call a graph.[…]

POP FACTOR: 342 CONTROVERSY RATING: 247
Simultaneously lazy and ballsy, a rum way to end a pop career but weeks away from its brief radio life at least it sounds like a footnote, so not as undignified as it might have been. As a track on one of the[…]

Neo-Coms
Rich Johnston’s comics gossip column reports an upcoming book from Marvel, Combat Zone: True Tales from GI’s In Iraq. How true, precisely? Here’s what Johnston has to say about the credentials of co-writer Karl Zinsmeister:[…]

We went to Regent Street yesterday to see Busted switch on the Christmas lights, little suspecting that we were to be plunged into a Conservative party rally. “You asked us to join the Euro / AND WE SAID NO!” sang the three well-off young[…]

“You cannot rewrite history! Not one line.”
The Aztecs is a Dr Who story from the show’s high-minded early years, when science-fiction adventures were mixed with more educational historical stories. By the time I started watching Wh[…]

Happy Irony Day!
I think every British kid growing up is only dimly aware that Guy Fawkes is the baddie in his story. On the one hand there’s the burning in effigy thing. On the other, there’s the fact that we commemorate a failure to blo[…]

Bad film alert!!! – heartwarming story of rockers fighting the forces of ageism. I’d be more sympathetic if The Alarm had thumbed its nose at the record industry by releasing a – gasp! – good record.[…]

My Sick Obsession
…with Band Aid III continues apace – yesterday I was seriously considering setting up a special blog for news of the single. This despite the unavoidable fact that the record will be rubbish. Not because “Do They K[…]