BRANDWATCH: another thinnish week for food and booze news – the front page of Marketing dominated by Nestle’s somewhat unsubtle attempt to counter its unethical image by launching a ‘fair trade’ coffee line. Inside the only it[…]

Recipe Help Please! I have i) some cod fillets ii) some single cream iii) some asparagus tips. How best to combine them? (Other ingredients can be picked up from Sainsburys on the way home).[…]

Black Is The New Black: I have spent a worrying amount of time since last summer looking at reviews on this sprawling Dr Who reviews site. So much so that I’ve started recognising reviewer names. This guy, Mike Morris, is easily the best, and t[…]

He Made Their Glowing Colours – somewhat reader-hostile colour scheme disguises good pop-centric blog. Long analysis of “Air Hostess”.
Giving up ILX is good for your blogging – Dave Stelfox is back in operation with mixtapes a[…]

I knew it! Goodbye Hoof Hello Nutmeg is the ‘free football magazine’ accompanying Nike’s Euro 2004 marketing push. Readers of a route one disposition should possibly refrain from clicking.
This seems as good a time as ever to mentio[…]

45rpm – it’s a music blog! In Swedish! It seems to be about pop and sexism and it links to a Stock Aitken And Waterman site. Most mysterious, if any multi-lingual reader wants to attempt a summary in the comments box I’d be grateful[…]

PopNose13 (1.6M) – time for a Popnose! I was alerted to the existence of this one by none other than Mark S. Standard rules apply – if you know what it is don’t tell, but please do comment. Reveal at the weekend.[…]

Thinking about Dave Clarke vs Jive Bunny (see below) gets me thinking about DJing and ‘art’. Clarke implicitly puts what he does on a higher aesthetic level than 2ManyDJs (and Jive Bunny obviously) – he doesn’t say why; it may[…]

I’ve never liked Will Buckley’s pieces in the Observer, and until today had put it down to his schoolboyish byline photo rather than anything concrete in his writing or attitudes. Surely my dislike was down to envy of his twinkly-eyed per[…]

Just heard on the radio the sad news that Sir Coxsone Dodd, sound system pioneer and founder of Studio One, has died from a heart attack, aged 72.[…]