12th, February 2010
Reviews
In the media rush to be the first with news of a celebrity death - never miss a death with Anorak's E-Hyena news bulleting an iPhone app. - did TMZ give its story of Deadliest Catch star Phil Harris' death a fake timestamp? More »
12th, February 2010
Strange But True
PICTURES from the 2010 Sapporo Snow Festival. Thanks to global warming there is so much snow that art has never had it so good. Snow is good for art... More »
11th, February 2010
Reviews
2 IN “My Rape Terror at Hands of Pirates”, Daily Mail readers are treated to the front-page horror story from the mouth of 56-year-old Rachel Chandler, the “British woman being held by Somali pirates”.... More »
11th, February 2010
Reviews
Global warming rebranded as climate change and then told us that it will get warmer or colder. Here are the facts... More »
For some time, Anorak has brought you the pick of nominative determinisms. And now we introduce the businessman with the name to end all names. More »
11th, February 2010
Celebrities
THE competition is on to see which of Peter Andre and Katie Price can be the more private. It’s a bit like deciding which is the more posh, Victoria Beckham or Rebecca Loos.... More »
11th, February 2010
Key Posts
3 Alexander McQueen had died. . His spokesman asks for “Privacy” from the media. Will the death of a fashion great be a private affair? Answer: no. More »
Fun times at the Changzhou Zoo, in the east China's Jiangsu province. In the burning bright orange corner a 15-year-old tiger named Tanghu is being invited into an enclosure with a calf, who wishes to remain nameless in the poo-brown corner. Who wins? More »
11th, February 2010
The Consumer
1 ANORAK Celebrity Death Alert service tells readers that British fashion designer Alexander McQueen has died. He is now a vintage brand. RIP.... More »
11th, February 2010
Celebrities
HAVING read John Terry’s words on loyalty and other women from 2006, we now hear from Tess Daly, talking to She magazine readers about her wonderful life with thumb wrestler Vernon Kay... More »
11th, February 2010
Strange But True
2 Meet the Arab ambassador to Dubai who has had his marriage annulled after discovering that the women behind the veil was bearded... More »
11th, February 2010
Celebrities
1 Madonna is in Brazil. That’s her with Sao Paulo's Governor Jose Serra in Sao Paulo city, Brazil, the man who be the country’s next president. Madonna spent an hour talking about helping Brazil's poor children. More »
11th, February 2010
Celebrities
Suri Cruise leaves the Bowery Hotel. It snows. Did Suri make it snow? Fanciful, of course. More likely her father made it snow by the power of intergalactic planetary flakes. You need to build up to snow. More »
11th, February 2010
Celebrities
1 Adolescent soft porn for Haiti, with Ice T's Coco... More »
11th, February 2010
Madeleine McCann
68 Maddie Watch - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann - The Daily Mail’s front page leads with news that the British police “Did say investigate McCanns”. More »
10th, February 2010
Key Posts
Chelsea captain John Terry is on his way to Dubai, and away from Vanessa Perroncel. He is racing to meet Toni Terry - well, just as soon as he's played games against Arsenal, Hull and Everton. But he can miss Cardiff city. Love is bigger than Cardiff City. More »
10th, February 2010
Celebrities
18 ANORAK spent the Super Bowl watching Brad Pitt grope and dry hump Angelina Jolie. It was better and more enriching a spectator sport than the American Soccer... More »
10th, February 2010
Reviews
Having endured and survived Anjem Choudary and Jon Gaunt, Wootton Bassett is now prepared to do battle with peanut-faced artist Mark McGowan. Madame Arcati writes... More »
10th, February 2010
Reviews
Convicted mass murder Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was released from Greenock Jail on August 20 last year because Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said he had been told the Lockerbie Bomber had a mere three months to live.... More »
10th, February 2010
Strange But True
LAKHVIR Kaur Singh murdered her former lover Lakhvinder Cheema and caused grievous bodily harm with intent to Ms Gurjeet Choongh by poisoning their curry with the Indian herb aconite... More »
10th, February 2010
Reviews
Police images of that horrific day... More »
10th, February 2010
Reviews
1 WHO better to lead the fight against energy waste than Sir Richard Branson, purveyor of airlines, internets, electronic arts, who raced a 99 ft. yacht across the Atlantic; who runs a tourist space program, owner of a private jet company and small Caribbean islands? We saw Branson launch 'Start Insulating' as part of The Prince Of Wales 'New Start' Initiative, London. More »
10th, February 2010
Madeleine McCann
9 From the world of fiction to the world of faction and The McCanns’ case against Goncalo Amaral, and his book The Truth Of The Lie. (Eat yer heart out, Agatha Christie.) More »
10th, February 2010
Celebrities
Music is not all cloying GM syrup poured over the destitute. Simon Cowell will be gone one day… More »
