8th, April 2014
Music
The next Glastonbury (pronounced 'Glaston-berry' if you're American) is rumoured to have David Bowie headlining. And Kasabian too, which isn't good news for anyone who isn't a first year university LAD who will be arfing and barfing their way through a series of NekNominations... More »
8th, April 2014
Celebrities
This is such a cock up of the reality about racial mixing that it's near absurdity... More »
8th, April 2014
Music
WU TANG CLAN have never been more popular, mainly because people who don't really like hip hop really like wearing their t-shirts, throwing up ironic 'Wu' handsigns in photographs and smoking weed now and then. For real fans of The Wu, they know how arduous it is trying to follow everything they do... More »
8th, April 2014
Liverpool
CAN Liverpool's bristling Luis Suarez be loved? On Liverpool's Reddit page, we spotted this picture of Suarez in Calderstones Park with a young boy with down syndrome... More »
8th, April 2014
Film
1 Perhaps, it’s best to look back a few decades. It may not be possible to scientifically lay out the all-time worst, but we can certainly make like Freddy and Finger a few candidates... More »
8th, April 2014
Celebrities
The celebrity death is heralded by people on social media shouting "FIRSTS!" and the "ker-ching" of big media's cash register. Who can be first to dash out a few hundred words of speculation veering between the mawkish an the insulting about the dead person they never knew?... More »
7th, April 2014
Celebrities
WANT to wok for Beyonce Knowles, the minter pop goddess? Well, here's is your big chance to live the dream - to get paid in selfies... More »
7th, April 2014
Celebrities
2 This is horrendous.... More »
7th, April 2014
Flashback
It was here he was introduced to a man, whose daughter had been murdered by what the villagerscalled a “Blood thief”. Gerber was escorted to a shallow grave where the killer lay, who had been caught and lynched, leaving his mangled corpse to the elements... More »
7th, April 2014
Reviews
STUART Meloy is the surgeon at Piedmont Anesthesia and Pain Consultants in Winston-Salem, North Carolina who when experiments with pain relief discovered the orgasm pill. He recalled the Eureka moment... More »
7th, April 2014
Celebrities
NOSTALGIA is a wonderful thing, provided you keep it where it is. 30somethings who have gone back to watch old cartoons they loved as kids are often found sobbing, depressed lumps sat in waterless baths, feeling cheated and hurt, like they'd summoned up a repressed abuse at the hands of school bullies.... More »
7th, April 2014
Celebrities
FLASHBACK to March 16 1989, a first look at Peaches Geldof... More »
7th, April 2014
Celebrities
PEACHES Geldof has died aged 25. Peaches Geldof, the daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates, has died at the age of 25... More »
7th, April 2014
Money
2 THIS is an interesting little calculation that's been made about how many people you would need on your spaceship if you were to set off and try to colonise the next star system over. Well, OK, it's interesting to me as someone who imbibed so much SF and Fantasy stuff when in my long ago youth at least. And the answer is a very much larger number of people than you might think... More »
7th, April 2014
Flashback
TO combat high infant mortality rates and teach young mothers about giving birth in the 18th Century, midwife Angélique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray (1712-1790) created this fantastic full-size obstetric mannequin... More »
SPURS are ready to demote Tim Sherwood, their English version of Andre Villa-Boas in a gillet. Many Spurs fans should be delighted. He is clearly out of his depth... More »
7th, April 2014
Reviews
HOW good is Wayne Rooney? He's so good that when the dire Sun on Sunday came to picking their team of the week, they picked the Manchester United star to play up front with someone called “Rodellaga”, a possible relation to Hugo Rodallega.... More »
7th, April 2014
Reviews
1 ANDREW Moffat has resigned his job as assistant head teacher at Chilwell Croft Academy, in Newtown, Birmingham. You may know him as the author of the handy guide Challenging Homophobia in Primary Schools. That's CHIPS. (Does the acronym come before the policy?)... More »
7th, April 2014
Celebrities
A star plays dress ups.... More »
7th, April 2014
Reviews
UNIVERSITY lecturer John Hyatt claims to have photographed fairies flitting about Rossendale Valley, Lancashire. Mr Hyatt, who works at Manchester Metropolitan University, has showcased his discovery and said: “A lot of people who have seen them say they have brought a little bit of magic into their lives and there’s not enough of that around.”... More »
7th, April 2014
Sports
AT the Manchester City v Southampton match on Saturday, the officials made a howler... More »
7th, April 2014
Fashion
HERE is some free advice for up-and-coming marketing execs: Adverts should not make consumers feel nauseous or deeply uncomfortable. Nor should they cause consumers to experience waking nightmares or abdominal pain. You wouldn’t think this sort of instruction would be necessary, but here are five examples which demonstrate that it is. Please take notes... More »
7th, April 2014
Flashback
Captions beside the stoic figure describe the injuries and sometimes give prognoses: often precise distinctions are drawn between types of injuries, such as whether an arrow has embedded itself in a muscle or shot right through. (The latter is better – the arrowhead can be cut away and the shaft withdrawn smoothly, whilst the embedded arrow will tear the muscle with its barbs when pulled out.)... More »
7th, April 2014
TV & Radio
The last scene of 'Coffee and cigarettes' with Bill Rice and Taylor Mead, by Jim Jarmusch... More »
7th, April 2014
Reviews
2 LAST week we learnt that Yashika Bageerathi, 19, is contrary to the public good. Yashika had hatched a plot to take A-level exams this summer. The authorities picked up chatter that Bageerathi was expected to "do well". It would be a "glorious day" if she "passed"... More »
