two Ballardian motifs

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Books Rick Poynor considers whether what we understand to be Ballardian has as much to do with the book covers and other designs related t...

Counselling sessions for BBC producers and casting directors begin as The Hobbit enters rehearsal period.

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"You vicious mole of nature!"

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Neatorama's new Shakespearean Insult Gum includes Hamlet : "If thy breath stinks with eating toasted cheese and thy wit as thick as...

the things which interest her

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Blog! I know it's unfashionable, but I still really like Goop , Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle newsletter which is considered by many...

The List:
17. Walk like a ninja.

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Life Tonight was another instalment of Social Media Week, this time the latest Social Media Café again held at John Moores University’s...
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yes, even Dan In Real Life

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Technology In my ongoing mission to stay behind the rest of you interweb delegates for as long as I possibly can whilst still confirm my l...
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"He asked us to call him Jerry"

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Books Blair Fuller recounts an evening with J.D. Salinger : "Dinner was eaten from my parents’ best plates balanced on the guests’ k...

within its inards

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Liverpool Life This being Ignite Week or Social Media Week or whatever this collective online sharing of ideas across five or so days is c...

Shakespeare: A Pictoral Biography by F.E. Halliday

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Despite having read a few biographies of Shakespeare over the past few years, for some reason I never quite tire of them because like produc...

probably the most representative

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Music I'm sometimes asked what kind of music I listened to as a teenager. In the process of having a clearout I found a 12" viny...

I've had a reply

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About You might remember the email I posted to the British Library asking if they'd consider hosting the elements of the BBC's web...

"so that it could be translated into English"

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Film Something which has always slightly annoyed me about some film criticism is when what's quite obviously a choice by the film make...

Pineapple.

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"Mr. Gick or Mr. Jick"

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Language For those who still miss Balderdash and Piffle . What is the correct pronunciation of .gif? : "It's embarrassing becau...

"We're just a couple of singers who happen to be sisters"

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Music Shelby Lynne and Alison Moorer to release album together . "We're starting to write in March and hopefully we'll put ...

save our libraries

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That Day As Lauren Laverne said on the improving 10 O'clock Live , save our libraries ... The Guardian has a live blog about today...

" we tried to be funny in all our links"

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Film  One the occasion of their slight return on 6 Music,  Andrew Collins reminisces about the glory days of his double act with Stuart Maco...

"a wonderful love letter to Paris"

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Film Hmm, this is positive . Woody Allen's next but one (if you live in the UK), Midnight In Paris , is opening the Cannes 2011 film ...

a kind of random history of art

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Art Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery begins its next major exhibition in a couple of weeks. A Collector’s Eye: Cranach to Pissarro fe...
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"Let them eat cake."

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History The Smithsonian has an excellent survey of Marie Antoinette which demonstrates that much of the popular knowledge we have of the ...