We’re halfway through the Pop World Cup 2010 (in terms of the total number of tracks), and here’s an opportunity to select your favourites from our 32 competing nations’ second selections. Choose your favourite FIVE from the last se[…]

As ever, BEWARE SPOILERS! (more…)[…]

I can’t quite parse Anish Kapoor’s expression here, but some of those other smiles seem a little forced.

via comments at Blood and Treasure. Better views of Kapoor’s Orbit here[…]

(It takes three to be banished from my sight)
So why haven’t I seen any films this year*? Beyond the FilmX reason, I blame James Cameron. Perhaps it is a bit of an over-reaction to boycott ALL films because the self styled King Of The World finally[…]

A brace of forward play and rasping cross-field action awaits as Peter Baran joins Roger Bozack via satellite for Brazil vs Cote D’Ivoire, Portugal vs Korea DPR, Honduras vs Spain, and Chile vs Switzerland, as well as a guest appearance from 1986 P[…]

The two winners from the first set of games in Group H meet here, three points in hand and ready to see who will really make the pace in this group. A win here will put either side within touching distance of qualification.
Voting on this match fin[…]

A blend of cheese, milk products, and hydrogenated vegetable oil, made in Belgium, and bought from a local shop.
Busy with tiling the kitchen floor, I don’t have time to nip out to Borough market for today’s Cheesy Lover, and have to get […]

One of the secrets of the Pop World Cup, like it’s recently-invented footballing cousin, is that very often matches between unfancied outsiders generate the most exciting moments. Chile ans Switzerland, both losers in their first games, are dea[…]

I’ve been reading “Sonata For Jukebox” by Geoffrey O’Brien, which is a pop memoir of sorts, but more importantly outlines ways in which we (we?) live inside music: how it’s not just to soundtrack our lives, it’s the place where our memori[…]

Ronald Searle turned 90 earlier this month, and to celebrate that, the Cartoon Museum here in London has an exhibition of his work.
He joined the army in 1939 and his first St Trinian’s cartoon was published in 1941. The following year he was t[…]