TV Two weeks to go. Meanwhile Wesley Crusher's teaching the "Doctor" how to drive the Enterprise. Three things: (a) Y...

Philosophy A couple of weeks ago, PBS Idea Channel considered the issue of when leisure becomes work. Here's the original video here ...

Art Yesterday, I finally managed to see the Whitworth gallery in Manchester for the first time since it reopened following a refurbishmen...

Film Back in 1994 and 1998, BBC Two offered a strand called "Lost and Found", seasons of films described as being "rarely...

TV George Bush famously said, "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, ...

Film The first copy of the The Big Chill I owned was a first wave VHS rental release bought at a car boot sale. The inlay was appallin...

Music A couple of days ago, the Huff Post's supercut group posted a video of Donald Trump saying China a lot: Which is pretty mesm...

History The New York Times has an obituary for Amelia Boynton Robinson, who was a pivotal member of Martin Luthor King Jr's group . ...

TV As part of the BBC's Pop Art season , the latest edition of What Do Artists Do All Day? focuses on Peter Blake and in particular ...

TV Glancing through the names of celebrities who're soon to enter the Channel 5 rendition of the Big Brother house trying to work ou...

Commerce Quite suddenly. My last visit was last Thursday where I sat on the ground floor beneath the stairs near the Wood Street entran...

Books Yes, indeed: I might as well say it. @twilightstreets ' forthcoming 12th Doctor novel Big Bang Generation features Prof. Be...

Film   Despite my obvious love of film I've never really had a home cinema set up.  My screen sizes have slowly grown larger over time...

Music Natalie Imbruglia's back then. After the debacle of the deeply average Come to Life, which still hasn't had an official rel...

TV ... which is a thirty second version of the last one. Sorry.  On the upside, this is a rare post with high SEO potential about a sho...

Film The AV Club on Pump Up The Volume : "The movie originally came from a script called Radio Death,” he explained to The A.V. Clu...

Radio Although Radio Four Extra rebroadcast some classic episodes of TAL recently, there are a couple of mentions of the show and it...

TV Let us return briefly to the iPlayer shenanigans of the past and specifically the malfunctions in the Roku 3 app . The short version ...

Film As with plenty of films on this list, St Elmo's Fire is so ingrained in my psyche it's almost impossible for me to offer a...

TV The Office for National Statistics published the list of chosen baby names in 2014 and I thought I'd try and see how many of the...