15th, May 2014
Reviews
IT was all worthwhile... All that defying the Islamist bigots and misogynists... All that getting shot in the head for liberty and women's suffrage... All that nearly dying... All that bravery... It was all worthwhile because Malala Yousafzai got to flog mattresses for Indian company Kurl-on.... More »
15th, May 2014
Reviews
GUARDIAN typo of the day: UKIP says over 70s are uncomfortable with homosexuals. A reader writes to the Guardian.... More »
TRANSFER Balls, with Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema... More »
14th, May 2014
Reviews
SIGNS are that the Daily Express is locked in a weather war with its tartier stablemate the Daily Star... More »
14th, May 2014
Celebrities
AUGUST 22, 1977... More »
14th, May 2014
Film
2 SINCE his first silver screen appearance in 1954, Toho’s giant monster Godzilla has starred in more than two dozen epic movies. The big green lizard has been featured as a terrifying villain, as a defender of the Earth, and, occasionally, even traveled to American shores to wreak havoc. In this span, Godzilla has stood alone, acted as a tag team player (with friends like Anguirus and Rodan…), battled ancient threats to humanity, and even fended off alien invaders on more than one occasion... More »
14th, May 2014
Key Posts
24 Hours to Go Broke could easily have been retitled Ha! Poor People and executive produced by the Bullingdon Club. One of the infrequent forays into original programming by Dave, home to the EU Top Gear repeat stockpile, the premise is two comedians are sent to a foreign country to blow a pile of loot. The joke? That living costs in the locale are so low that they struggle to get shot of the £10k before the deadline and a poorly-defined forfeit... More »
14th, May 2014
Strange But True
1 REASONS for not totally trusting cats are many. But in Bakersfield, California, a pet cat appears to have saved a young boy from being savaged by a dog... More »
14th, May 2014
Celebrities
MAKE no mistake about it - Justin Bieber is a little turd. However, this is not necessarily an insult to the gyrating singer. See, if there's anything we all want out of a popstar, it is occasional bad behaviour... More »
14th, May 2014
Sports
Stating the obvious becomes BBC news... More »
14th, May 2014
Reviews
WHEN Donald Sterling's private phone calls became public knowledge, the media began the feeding frenzy. Bill Maher took a view... More »
14th, May 2014
In Pictures
"Tessa's miniscule sculptures reinvigorate a belief in fairies: not the sweet Tinkerbell image in popular conscience, but a biological, entomological, macabre species translating pastoral fable into nightmarish lore. Constructed from bits of organic material, such as roots, leaves, and dead insects, each of Tessa's figures stand barely 1 cm tall, their painstakingly intricate detail visible only through a magnifying glass.... More »
14th, May 2014
Money
IT'S quite remarkable how scientists manage to come up with proofs of what everyone over the age of 12 already knows. Time and time again we get press releases telling us that this or that piece of obvious, culturally embedded, good sense is indeed actually true. That they're proving these things with our tax money does rather grate but perhaps it's better that these people be kept in the labs rather than being out in the community or anything.... More »
14th, May 2014
Flashback
FEMININE hygiene adverts prior to the late 1960s basically depicted menstruation as a shameful curse, a sickening burden upon womankind. By the time the Baby Boomers started needing these products en masse, a revolution in feminine hygiene was underway. There was still a sense of shame in these adverts, but now it was all about offering new features (i.e. “It’s flushable!). While this may not be the most appealing topic you've ever read about, the advertising is still rather interesting and even a little humorous. Take a look at a few examples... More »
14th, May 2014
Celebrities
NOT too long ago, Alec Baldwin was shooting his mouth off, saying that he was going to leave New York. Everyone started spreadin' the news. He didn't want to be a part of it. New York. New York... More »
14th, May 2014
Film
2 WHEN George Lucas’s space fantasy Star Wars premiered in the summer of 1977 --- and promptly became the highest grossing film in history -- it was only a matter of time before intrepid filmmakers sought to imitate and thus re-capture the movie’s magic in a slew of lookalike films... More »
14th, May 2014
Manchester City
WHEN Noel Gallagher confronted the allegation that Manchester City bought the Premier League, we enjoyed his unravelling of those Financial Fair Play rules... More »
14th, May 2014
Chelsea
Chelsea are an equal opportunities employer.. More »
13th, May 2014
Celebrities
CHARLIE Chaplin was woken on the morning 17 September 1921 while in his bed at the Ritz Hotel in London. “Visitors from Hoxton” he was told. From outside the window he could hear children singing the same song over and over again.... More »
13th, May 2014
Books
1 THERE'S only a finite number of ways you can arrange a canvas. Naturally, there's going to be some patterns that emerge, and certain motifs will be copied and repeated to oblivion within the pop art landscape. An artful conception will suddenly be mimicked on comic book covers to movie posters to paperbacks to album covers, and it will continue for decades... More »
MANUEL Pelligrini might looks like an accountant apprising a new Jaguar car, but it turns out that he's a pretty good football manager. His Manchester City have won the Premier League title and League Cup in his first season in charge. So. Time to see what the media experts said of the Chilean... More »
12th, May 2014
Celebrities
1 GUESS what? Lily Allen is talking again, this time, saying that we shouldn't play her music in public because it makes her hide under tables. She says: "Usually if I'm in a club and my music comes on I find the nearest table and hide underneath it. That's generally how I deal with it."... More »
12th, May 2014
Arsenal
RICHARD Wright has won two more Premier League winners' medals than Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard... More »
