With Charley and C'rizz: After The Divergent Universe.

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"It's almost as if you're glad, glad that he's gone." "You never really cared for him did you Doctor?" ...

Soup Safari #46: Tomato and Basil at Patisserie Valerie.

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Lunch.  £5.10.  Patisserie Valerie, Unit 1 The Met Quarter, 34 Whitechapel, Liverpool, Merseyside L1 6DA. Phone: 0151 227 1678. Webs...

"Too bad he didn’t get you into Sherlock as well."

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TV Diana Rigg's been interviewed for Random Roles on The AV Club. Inevitably: AVC: Having survived her encounter with Miss Piggy, y...

My Favourite film of 1993.

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Film Ah Groundhog Day.  Whenever I'm asked what my top five favourite films are (When Harry Met Sally, Ferris Bueller's Day Off,...

Soup Safari #45: Potato and Leek at The Fat Budgie.

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Dinner. £4.50 (vegetable crisps included). The Fat Budgie, 60 Dale Street, Liverpool, Merseyside L2 5ST. Phone:0151 345 6749. Webs...

Soup Safari #44: Sweet Potato and Sage at World Museum Coffee Shop.

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Lunch. £3.50. World Museum Liverpool Coffee Shop, Ground Floor. William Brown St, Liverpool, Merseyside L3 8EN. Website.

Churchill's Secret.

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TV Romola Garai's signed to appear in a drama about the final months of Winston Churchill's life along with a cast which sounds l...

Elizabeth Wurtzel in The Telegraph.

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Books An interview : It’s funny, I tell her, to hear the one time emblem of disaffected youth sounding quite so, well, optimistic. “Of c...

Soup Safari #43: Lentil at City Cafe.

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Lunch. £2.50. City Cafe, 9 Stanley Street, Liverpool L1 6AA. Tel: 0151 255 0051. Website.

"Hey, that's my car!"

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Film Watching The Bourne Supremacy this evening, I thought of this opening for a film and story idea. It's (c) Stuart Ian Burns if yo...

Soup Safari #42: Leek and Mushroom at the Signature Cafe.

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Lunch. £3.25.  Signature Cafe, Rapid Discount Outlet, George Henry Lee Building, Clayton Square, Liverpool, Merseyside L1 1AD. Telep...

Andrew Marr's Not Shakespeare.

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Theatre Broadcast last night and currently on the iPlayer for at least a month , The Culture Show and Arts Review replacement Artsnight ...

Soup Safari #41: Tomato and Red Pepper at Poundbakery.

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Snack. £1.00. Poundbakery, 47 Lord Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, L2 6PB. T:0151 227 3669. Website.

The Vinyl Experience Without The Vinyl.

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Music Passing through Urban Outfitters today in a moment of midlife crisis / 90s nostalgia for alt.culture, I stumbled up on the vinyl w...

Soup Safari #40: Beef Goulash at Cinnamon Cafe Bar and Lounge.

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Lunch. £2.20. Cinnamon Cafe Bar and Lounge, City Exchange, 39 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, Merseyside L3 9PP. Telephone: 0151 236 52...

My Favourite Film of 1994.

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Film The following was posted on my Hamlet blog just over ten years ago . I'll add that I remember seeing it vividly at screen one ...

Soup Safari #39: Tomato and Basil at Lime St Bistro.

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Lunch. £4.25. Lime St Bistro, Liverpool Empire, Lime Street, Liverpool, L1 1JE. Phone: 0151 702 7354. Website.

Soup Safari #38: Vegetable at the Trattoria 51 Pizzeria.

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Dinner. £3.95. Trattoria 51 Pizzeria, 25-31 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, Merseyside L3 9SY. Phone: 0151 236 4739. Website.

Soup Safari #37: Cream of Pumpkin at Filini Bar & Restaurant.

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Dinner. £5.50. Filini Bar & Restaurant, Radisson Blu Hotel, 107 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L3 9BD. Tel: 0151 966 1500. Websit...

Heritage TV.

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TV TFI Friday's revival was a mess and descended in its final half hour into a Chris Evans Top Gear campaign broadcast. Sad. Stuart ...