Music "For the follow-up to 2003's 0304, Jewel first ducked into the studio with a group of Nashville pros to self-produce a new, f...

Music Is is possible that a band name can transcend the music they're no doubt recording?

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News "US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said she has no problem with people protesting during her two-day visit to the north...

Kat Murello Kat Murello is a background artist in film and television working out of New York. I've been reading her blog since the tu...

Film I read this article this morning and then heard these quotes this afternoon during a film screening. For some reason I got a jolt: ...

Film At the opening of the incredibly fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary film Unknown White Male , an Englishman walks into a polic...

TV Here's something I'd never thought I'd see. Television Without Pity are posting Doctor Who reviews. These are suitably dr...

The Buses I've just got on what feels like the last bus home. I put my pound coin in the tray and look at the driver. Me: Student pl...

TV Unfortunately, as promised, the RSA lecture I attended about the future of the BBC in the North with Mark Thompson is now available on...

Music "Singer Shakira will be honored with a 16-foot iron statue placed in her home city of Barranquilla, Colombia. The 5 ton statue ...

"Great cities usually owe their parks to royalty or nobility. The centres of Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester are the poorer for lackin...

Liverpool Life "Great cities usually owe their parks to royalty or nobility. The centres of Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester are the ...

TV Somewhere along the line, The West Wing (season seven of which has begun playing on More4) became its own spin-off show. I mean it...

Photography Sharon Tate pictures @ flickr . Massive and actually quite poignant collection of photographs. More here . [ wikipedia ]

TV If you'll indulge me, Resurrection of the Daleks is the inspiration for my Davros theory of who can play Doctor Who. When the new ...

Life "I flashed my pass at the driver and trundled upstairs only to be greeted by a strong smell of unwashed person. At least that...

Film Lush hyperlink film 'exploring the complexities of modern-day relationships by following three women aged twenty, thirty and forty...

Life I decided to work from home today. On Monday, this was a good idea. I managed to write over a thousand words of an essay which is d...

TV Plot of new Star Wars series announced . It's the story of the first twenty years of Luke Skywalker's life. So ... Ext. Dese...