Film The Matrix Comics (as Graphic Novel) ... is there no end to the merchandising possibilities?

Star Struck I've seen Christopher Biggins on Church Street, Liverpool twice this week. It feels like stalking. I saw John Barnes a...

Life Whilst we've been packing I found my christening certificate. And there at the top is my name Ian Stuart Burns. "Oh," ...

News The Hutton Inquiry actually has a website and it makes for fascinating reading. Much of the coverage since the story broke has conc...

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Wierd It can be seen immediately that this is a phone call. (A) tells (B) she has to put an ‘extension’ on hold. There is also a certain...

Blog! A lack of inspiration tonight leads me to casting elsewhere, to my regular reads for your entertainment ... The Quiet Coach. Inno...

Quiz! Analysing that last post The Gender Genie has decided that I write like a girl. Not at all surprised or insulted. The accuracy is...

Life She sat next to me on the bus. “Excuse me …" I said. "Sorry … excuse me. Can I ask you a weird question.” She glances a...

TV This looks to my eyes like the new 24 , and my kind of television: "Not as easy to categorize is "Carnivale," which wea...

Libraries On a related topic, The Guardian says Libraries blamed for their own decline : "'The library has the potential to be th...

Books After the massive media push motivated by Manchester's Urbis I've joined BookCrossing . The concept is simple and surr...

Quiz! Have you got good manners? 5 out of 5. I'm such a square.

Film ""Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: they exp...

Fashion The other fair trade Safia Minney is the founder of The People Tree , a new label which has been set up using the Fair Trade pri...

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Politics Statesman or Skatesman? "Last Christmas my Dad and me had a big argument. He'd found a picture of Enoch Powell on a pog...

Gatherings Flash Mob Liverpool . Enough said.

Cinemas I was surprised to hear that drive-in movie threatres still exist in some parts of America , and they sound idyllic: "As pink...

Travel The writer of The Guardian's A life inside has for some reason decided to write on of my old Commuter Tales columns. Oh the ...