14th, March 2014
Flashback
THE Internet has certainly done its fair share of mockery when it comes to vintage album covers from America and the UK. How about we spread the snarkiness to a less traveled geography - say, the Netherlands? Yes, I know Dutch singles are a ridiculously small niche, but there are some ridiculously bad covers to explore. Take a look... More »
14th, March 2014
Celebrities
You may not know who Hal Douglas is. He's not exactly a household name, and sadly Douglas has just passed away, aged 89. However, we should pay tribute to Hal because he is the most legendary voice-over artist in Hollywood. More »
ARSENAL Balls: The Sun's Steven Howard has more to say on Mesut Ozil, who suffered a hamstring injury against Bayern Munich... More »
14th, March 2014
Flashback
FLASHBACK to December 4, 1985... More »
The lie-detector is called 'Pheme' and it will scan tweets from news outlets, individuals and automated 'bots' to see if what they're saying is a crock of crap or not... More »
14th, March 2014
Film
1 THE found-footage horror film genre is one that isn’t often appreciated. The late Roger Ebert himself once wrote that movies of this type often consist of “low quality home video footage,” are “usually under-lit,” are “lacking in pacing” and seem “intentionally hard to comprehend.”.. More »
14th, March 2014
Money
THE reason being that when bankers get bonuses then we get most of it flowing right back into the Treasury in the form of taxes. Which makes this complaint of hers really quite remarkably stupid... More »
14th, March 2014
Flashback
ONE hundred and one years after the evangelist William Booth preached his first open air sermon outside the Blind Beggar Public House on the Whitechapel Road - a sermon which ultimately led to the establishment of the Salvation Army - Ronald Kray walked into the very same pub. Or at least it would have been the same pub had it not been rebuilt in 1894 by the Mann, Crossman and Paulin’s Albion Brewery at the same address. It was 8.30pm on 9 March 1966 and Kray was accompanied by his right-hand man Ian Barrie, while his driver, John ‘Scotch Jack’ Dickson, was told to wait outside in his Mark 1 Cortina... More »
14th, March 2014
Music
It is described as a "purpose-built, portable, high-resolution digital-music player designed and engineered in a "no-compromise" fashion to allow consumers to experience studio master-quality digital music at the highest audio fidelity possible, bringing the true emotion and detail of the music, the way the artist recorded it, to life.".. More »
14th, March 2014
Flashback
"I must tell you, Mr Speaker, that I am going to put a plaque in the House. I shall have it made myself and screwed on the door of the broom cupboard in the Crypt.".. More »
14th, March 2014
Sports
SPURS Balls: Last night at White Hart Lane, Tottenham manager Tim Sherwood was upset by Benfica manager, Jorge Jesus's perceived “lack of class”. As Benfica went 3-1 up in the teams' Europa League last-16 first-leg, Jesus appeared to hold up three fingers... More »
14th, March 2014
Celebrities
SO. What did X Factor winner Sam 'ScrewBo' Bailey do next? A Hollywood biopic? A number one album? A chair on Loose Women? ... More »
14th, March 2014
Celebrities
William Rutherford Benn, great-uncle of politician Tony Benn and father of the actress, the late Margaret Rutherford... More »
14th, March 2014
Celebrities
ANORAK's favourite rich kid trying to find new ways to spunk her dad's cash, Tamara Ecclestone, has been celebrating the impending arrival of her first child with a baby shower... More »
14th, March 2014
Celebrities
Minogue gives hope to other single woman in their forties.. More »
14th, March 2014
Flashback
FLASHBACK to 19/06/57... More »
14th, March 2014
In Pictures
4 Tony Benn - 3 April 1925 - 14 March 2014: A Life In Photos... More »
13th, March 2014
In Pictures
How to make 'Granny' cereal'... More »
13th, March 2014
Politicians
Councillor Braithwaite: Given the gravity of the role of Leader of Camden Council, will the Leader consider creating a separate Twitter account for matters relating to Camden as separate from reporting on her personal interests in Arsenal, the X Factor, restaurants and dishes she's enjoyed and B-movies she watches on TV, which represents circa 80% of her 21,800 tweets?... More »
13th, March 2014
Books
IN 1971, Debbie Harry appeared on the cover of a 1971 reissue of Josephine Tey’s 1948 crime novel The Franchise Affair... More »
13th, March 2014
Flashback
DAVID Vetter (September 21, 1971 – February 22, 1984) was the media's The Boy In The Bubble. More »
13th, March 2014
Celebrities
CELEBRITIES, really, are supposed to be badly behaved. What is the point of being wealthy, popular and good looking if you're not goin to rinse it for all it is worth? ... More »
13th, March 2014
Books
IN March 1953, for just 10 cents, readers could read the story of World War 3. This was: The War that Will Never Happen if America Remains String and Alert... More »
