http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/?service=Rss http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/bites-why-chef-corrigan-is-in-a-fowl-mood-854937.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/bites-why-chef-corrigan-is-in-a-fowl-mood-854937.html <p>Another week, another cockfight over poor poultry. This time it's Richard Corrigan (pictured), the proprietor of London restaurants Lindsay House and Bentley's, who is engaged in a battle of words with fellow countryman Joe Duffy, after the radio-show host blamed the chef for the closure of the Limerick poultry plant that employed his brother. Corrigan, who in 2005, long before Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver started to ruffle feathers over cheap chicken, spoke out passionately against intensively farmed Irish fowl, has dubbed Duffy's comments "horseshit" as he prepares to open a Dublin branch of his Bentley's oyster bar.</p> Regulars Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/closeup-josef-valentino-854939.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/closeup-josef-valentino-854939.html <p>When Josef Valentino decided a few months ago that finishing his A-levels and going to university were not for him, his parents were understandably concerned. But this is not the tale of the average teen dropout. </p> Regulars Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/credo-gill-hicks-854941.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/credo-gill-hicks-854941.html Regulars Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/culture-sexual-failure-is-a-guaranteed-crowdpleaser-854942.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/culture-sexual-failure-is-a-guaranteed-crowdpleaser-854942.html <p>To what extent is a documentary-maker obliged to follow the same rules as a news reporter? In the past, film-makers such as Roger Graef operated to a very strict code of ethics, doing everything they could to minimise the effect the presence of their documentary crews had on the events they were shooting. But what of documentary-makers such as Morgan Spurlock, who are themselves the subjects of their films? There are no hard-and-fast rules here, but there is at least an understanding that the situations they find themselves in have not been "stunted up". </p> Regulars Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/essentials-daniella-issa-helayel-designer-854946.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/essentials-daniella-issa-helayel-designer-854946.html <p>Everyday elegance sums up my style. If you're busy you need to be comfortable, which is the key to my designs too. I wear a lot of my own Cape-wrap dresses in leopard-print or bold graphic patterns.</p> Regulars Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/fashion-put-on-your-red-shoes-854948.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/fashion-put-on-your-red-shoes-854948.html <p>Following in the ceramic footsteps of the Terracotta Army, China's ancient-warrior tradition is making a renewed march on Europe, this time in the unexpected form of budget basketball shoes. </p> Regulars Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/how-to-be-happy-beat-depression-ndash-stop-ruminating--and-start-doing-854952.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/how-to-be-happy-beat-depression-ndash-stop-ruminating--and-start-doing-854952.html <p> <b>Q. 'My boyfriend suffers from depression. How can I help him?' E.</b> </p> Regulars Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/how-we-met-gwendoline-christie--polly-borland-854953.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/how-we-met-gwendoline-christie--polly-borland-854953.html <p><b>Polly Borland is a portrait photographer. The 49-year-old was born in Melbourne, Australia, but has lived in Britain since 1989. Her subjects have included Sir Kingsley Amis, Cate Blanchett and the Queen. She lives in Brighton with her husband and son</b></p> Regulars Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/parties-now-theres-lovely-for-you-854958.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/parties-now-theres-lovely-for-you-854958.html <p>The dress code was 1940s/glamour and attendees at the Edinburgh Film Festival's opening-night bash on 18 June did not disappoint. Tying in with the curtain-raiser, The Edge of Love, John Maybury's bio of Dylan Thomas, trilbys, nylons and spiv 'taches were very much in evidence. The film's stars, Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller, supplied the requisite glamour, the former effortlessly elegant in Chanel, while Sean Connery was as ruggedly handsome as ever... even with his arm in a sling after a golfing accident.</p> Regulars Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/trends-luxe-hotels-are-going-under-854968.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/trends-luxe-hotels-are-going-under-854968.html <p>Hoteliers who can't find any more land mass to develop beachside are going (literally) one step further: under water.</p> Regulars Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/closeup-ben-whishaw-854971.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/closeup-ben-whishaw-854971.html <p>The Ben Whishaw appreciation society has a tantalising six months ahead. First, their man is to appear in Criminal Justice, a thriller for the BBC that starts tomorrow. In it, Whishaw plays Ben Coulter, a young man whose night of sexual abandon leads him into the Kafka-esque world of the British criminal justice system. "It felt like something different for me, partly because the character is a fairly normal, average guy," he says.</p> Regulars Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/why-i-love-the-grindhouse-king-854972.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/why-i-love-the-grindhouse-king-854972.html <p>For me, there is a vitality in Quentin Tarantino's work that is second to none. I like the self-consciousness of his films &ndash; it's very playful. </p> Regulars Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/bites-how-zilli-became-a-kitchen-cowell-850569.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/bites-how-zilli-became-a-kitchen-cowell-850569.html <p>The enthusiastic Italian celebrity chef Aldo Zilli (pictured) has just opened his first restaurant outside of the capital. Zilli Café, which is inside the newly opened Brighton branch of MyHotel, was launched with a so-called "Chef Factor" competition. Those after a job in the new restaurant's kitchen were invited to compete in a pasta cook-off, with Zilli playing the culinary Cowell and choosing 18-year-old catering-college graduate Lewis Birch as the winner. </p> Regulars Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/closeup-scarlett-johnson-850572.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/closeup-scarlett-johnson-850572.html <p>Scarlett Johnson has balls. Aged 16, she invited the agent Louise Coulson (who represents Andy "Gollum" Serkis and Minnie Driver) to watch her in a school production of Guys and Dolls. "Looking back it was pretty bolshie," she laughs.</p> Regulars Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/gredo-golden-850573.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/gredo-golden-850573.html Regulars Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/culture-why-we-must-let-playwrights-get-it-wrong-850574.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/culture-why-we-must-let-playwrights-get-it-wrong-850574.html <p>Afterlife, the new play by Michael Frayn, is not a success. A meditation on the life of Max Reinhardt, the great Jewish impresario, it incorporates dozens of scenes from Everyman, a medieval morality play that Reinhardt staged at the Salzburg Festival in 1920. But its continual switching back and forth between Reinhardt's fate and gobbets from Everyman makes for an unsatisfactory experience. Just as you're beginning to get interested in the one, the other pops up &ndash; and it doesn't help that the play within the play is written in verse. </p> Regulars Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/essentials-jo-wood-organic-products-specialist-850577.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/essentials-jo-wood-organic-products-specialist-850577.html <p>In another life I might have been a personal shopper &ndash; I'm great at picking things for other people. For myself, I'm more of an impulse buyer. I've been going to Matches boutique for years (www.matches fashion.com). Abroad, Milan is a great mix of big labels and independent boutiques with unknown Italian brands.</p> Regulars Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/fashion-wake-up-to-sleepy-chic-850579.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/fashion-wake-up-to-sleepy-chic-850579.html <p>Looking like we've slept in our clothes is a look we rarely aspire to, yet somehow often achieve. Good news, then, that fashion has decreed that nightwear is the new daywear this summer. And you don't even have to don a nocturnal ensemble as glitzy as the sequinned bed jacket and silk shorts combo that New York designer Derek Lam sent his model down the runway in to look the part.</p> Regulars Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/how-to-be-happy-developing-trust-is-key-to-being-open-sexually-850584.html http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/how-to-be-happy-developing-trust-is-key-to-being-open-sexually-850584.html <p><b>Q. 'I feel embarrassed about giving and receiving oral sex. How can I relax about this? I feel like I'm missing out.' E.</b></p> Commentators Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/how-we-met-clive-deamer--robert-plant-850586.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/how-we-met-clive-deamer--robert-plant-850586.html <p><b>Robert Plant, 59, is Led Zeppelin's frontman. After the band had broken up in 1980, he pursued a successful career collaborating with various musicians, and helped set up blues band Strange Sensation in 2002. He lives in Worcestershire and Woodstock</b></p> Regulars Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/parties-stars-rally-for-roundhouse-850587.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/parties-stars-rally-for-roundhouse-850587.html <p>What was it about the invitation to drink champagne and listen to live music at Camden's legendary Roundhouse venue that brought out such wardrobe excess? </p> Regulars Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/trends-nude-is-no-longer-rude-850596.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/trends-nude-is-no-longer-rude-850596.html <p>"The basic hang-up that the body must be covered on all occasions is being eroded," says British Naturism's Andrew Welch &ndash; and, it seems, more and more Brits agree. Held in Cornwall, Nudefest 2008 (<a href="http://www.british-naturism.org.uk" target="new">www.british-naturism.org.uk</a>), in its second year, has everything a regular summer festival offers &ndash; music, poetry readings, yoga &ndash; though all in the buff.</p> Regulars Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/why-i-love-armenian-mysticism-850599.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/why-i-love-armenian-mysticism-850599.html <p> After signing a record deal at 17, I missed out on further education, so by the time I was 25, I started asking big questions. I liked Freud for about five minutes, then dropped him for Jung. I tried Wittgenstein &ndash; he didn't affect me. </p> Regulars Sun, 22 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/bites-a-latin-makeover-for-quo-vadis-845785.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/bites-a-latin-makeover-for-quo-vadis-845785.html <p>The latest incarnation of Quo Vadis, a London Soho institution since 1926, is the work of the Hart brothers, the Anglo-Iberian siblings behind the Spanish restaurants Fino and Barrafina. </p> Regulars Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/closeup-alina-ibragimova-845788.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/closeup-alina-ibragimova-845788.html <p>Slim as a pin and pretty as a buttercup, Alina Ibragimova doesn't look like the sort of violinist to challenge musical orthodoxy. Yet the 22-year-old Russian has championed forgotten masterpieces, silenced Shoreditch clubbers with unaccompanied Bach, won the respect of rapper Lethal Bizzle, and directed some of the world's leading chamber orchestras. "I do find myself being the youngest musician or the only girl, but it doesn't really matter," she says. "It becomes more of a collaboration."</p> Regulars Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/credo-max-lewis-845790.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/credo-max-lewis-845790.html Regulars Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/culture-we-have-become-a-nation-of-hairgel-addicts-845791.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/culture-we-have-become-a-nation-of-hairgel-addicts-845791.html <p>Will the current series of Big Brother be its last? It looks that way, even though it's still doing well in the ratings; last Sunday's episode was seen by 3.2m people &ndash; about the same number the show was attracting at the same stage last year. The problem with Big Brother is not that it no longer holds a mirror up to society, but that it still does. The reason the chattering classes detest it so much is that it reflects an aspect of culture they disapprove of &ndash; namely, that tens of millions of Britons have set their hearts on becoming famous.</p> Regulars Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/essentials-terry-barber-makeup-artist-845793.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/essentials-terry-barber-makeup-artist-845793.html <p> I dress like a classic mod &ndash; Paul Weller is my style icon &ndash; so of course I love Fred Perry, who makes sportswear chic. You can't beat their short-sleeved polo shirts and V-neck sweaters in boy-scout claret (www. fredperry.com). It's a classic British look and reminds me of when I was growing up, although I was a New Romantic back then. In those days I had a full face of make-up on every day but now it's more about a little grooming. </p> Regulars Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/fashion-ascot-gets-on-its-high-horse-845795.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/fashion-ascot-gets-on-its-high-horse-845795.html <p>So much for the "death of the dress code". As the racing world descends on Ascot on Tuesday, the organisers are keener than ever to raise the stakes on female race-goers' attire, particularly in the Royal Enclosure, where new rules have been introduced to cover up overexposed decolletes and midriffs. </p> Regulars Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/how-we-met-roderick-gordon--brian-williams-845801.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/how-we-met-roderick-gordon--brian-williams-845801.html <p> <b>Brian Williams, 47, is an artist, film-maker and co-author of children's bestseller Tunnels, the first in a planned trilogy of books written with Roderick Gordon. He lives in Hackney, London</b> </p> Regulars Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/parties-brit-art-goes-psychedelic-845805.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/parties-brit-art-goes-psychedelic-845805.html <p>"Like one giant drug trip," was the artist Grayson Perry's view of this year's Royal Academy summer exhibition preview last Tuesday week. The epicentre of wildness was the gallery Tracey Emin had curated. Simon and Yasmin Le Bon headed straight for Emin's homage to male genitalia, while Erin O'Connor was keen to see a video clip of a woman hula-hooping with barbed wire, fellow model Jasmine Guinness loved Julien Schnabel's sensual offering, and party co-chair Anya Hindmarch was seduced by the eroticism of Rachel Kneebone's writhing mass of porcelain limbs. </p> Regulars Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/trends-do-you-know-your-neighbour-845813.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/trends-do-you-know-your-neighbour-845813.html <p>A resurgence in communal living could prove an antidote to the isolation many people feel living in big cities.</p> Regulars Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/why-i-love-slacker-chic-845815.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/why-i-love-slacker-chic-845815.html <p> When I was in college, they showed us Pulp Fiction and Clerks, directed by Kevin Smith. It was Clerks that spoke to me. I'd never seen anything like it before. There were scenes in which people talked about nothing, as people really do, others that didn't move the story on at all. And it was shot on a very low budget, like my film Kidulthood. </p> Regulars Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/bites-hip-hop-turns-to-haute-cuisine-840972.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/bites-hip-hop-turns-to-haute-cuisine-840972.html <p>As random career changes go, hip-hop impresario to gastro-guide publisher is up there. Step forward Steve Plotnicki, one-time boss of Profile Records, the New York label that back in the 1980s was behind rap pioneers Run DMC. </p> Regulars Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/closeup-felicity-jones-840973.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/closeup-felicity-jones-840973.html <p>Felicity Jones's idol is Vivien Leigh: "She was so beautiful and had a look of wild abandon. I re-watched A Streetcar Named Desire and there's something so nutty about her that's great."</p> Regulars Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/credo-john-bird-840974.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/credo-john-bird-840974.html <p>I believe...</p> Regulars Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/culture-a-suspicious-cellar-gets-the-hollywood-treatment-840975.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/culture-a-suspicious-cellar-gets-the-hollywood-treatment-840975.html <p>Forget the summer of 2008. What will the big blockbusters of 2009 be? One candidate is a film about a cache of 30 or so bottles of wine purportedly from the cellar of Thomas Jefferson, the American president. After selling for hundreds of thousands of pounds in the 1980s, the bottles turned out to be fake and the ensuing fallout left the world of wine connoisseurs in disarray. Two film projects are in the works about this controversy, both in fast-track development.</p> Regulars Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/essentials-jodie-kidd-model-840977.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/essentials-jodie-kidd-model-840977.html <p>My style is pretty eclectic &ndash; particularly in the summer when you can get away with really mixing things up. I'll buy a little sundress from Miss Selfridge (www.missselfridge.com) &ndash; which is doing some great stuff at the moment &ndash; or Topshop (www.topshop.com) and pair it with an oversized Chanel bag and some flip-flops that I picked up in a market in Ibiza. </p> Regulars Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/fashion-a-night-of-1000-stars-840980.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/fashion-a-night-of-1000-stars-840980.html <p>All that glisters may not be gold, but if you happen to spot something sparkling on the international catwalks, you can pretty much guarantee it'll be Swarovski crystal. </p> Regulars Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/how-to-be-happy-be-more-active-to-feel-better-about-ageing-840981.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/how-to-be-happy-be-more-active-to-feel-better-about-ageing-840981.html <p><b>Q. 'I am beginning to feel old and it is getting me down. What can I do to make ageing feel less miserable?' D.</b></p> Regulars Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/how-we-met-alison-moyet--vince-clarke-840984.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/how-we-met-alison-moyet--vince-clarke-840984.html <p><b>Alison Moyet, 46, was one half of the 1980s pop duo Yazoo, alongside Vince Clarke. Her subsequent solo career included the top-10 hits "All Cried Out" and "Love Resurrection". She has just reunited with Clarke for a comeback tour. She lives in Basildon, Essex, with her husband and their three children</b></p> Regulars Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/parties-playtime-in-the-garden-840989.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/parties-playtime-in-the-garden-840989.html <p>What's at the bottom of Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst's garden? Half the art world, 18 contemporary sculptures, and a lot of Perrier Jouet champagne was the answer last Saturday, when she launched her third exhibition of contemporary art in the grounds of her stately home, Sudeley Castle. For one enchanted evening, film stars (Rosamund Pike, elegant in Chanel) tiptoed through the knot garden, major artists (Michael Craig-Martin) danced on the lawn and rockers (Paul Simonon) flicked ash at the ha-ha. </p> Regulars Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/trends-a-sweet-way-to-fall-asleep-840994.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/trends-a-sweet-way-to-fall-asleep-840994.html <p>Stressed by the credit crunch? Can't even grab 40 winks to dream away the anxiety? Well, here's a tip: sink your teeth into a choccie bar. </p> Regulars Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100 http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/why-i-love-being-peter-pan-840996.html http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/sunday-review/regulars/why-i-love-being-peter-pan-840996.html <p>When I was little, my dreams of flying were so convincing, it used to take me until about midday to realise I couldn't do it. I'd even perfect my technique in my dreams, steering and landing. Now I do that every day, performing on the end of an 80m rope. </p> Regulars Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:01 +0100