William Finley: Actor best known for his work with Brian De Palma
Monday 28 May 2012
William Finley is best-known for his roles in nine of Brian De Palma's films, a disturbing, lanky, goggle-eyed presence, notably the maniacal, disfigured anti-hero of The Phantom of the Paradise.
Great Works: Madame de Pompadour at Her Toilette, 1750-c1760 (81.2cm x 64.9cm), by François Boucher
Saturday 26 May 2012
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
Nabila Ramdani: Cairo's women have their say – but they have lost all their faith in the revolution
Thursday 24 May 2012
Dragon’s Dogma – Review
Wednesday 23 May 2012
A huge, unflinchingly tough RPG which fans of the genre should look out for.
Pre-1960 vehicles to be exempted from MoT
Monday 21 May 2012
Classic and historic vehicles are to be exempted from the annual MoT test, the Government announced today.
Trending: Warning! Emo hair can (er, might) damage your health
Monday 21 May 2012
Is your teenager suffering from Emo Fringe? Now you may have a medical reason for forbidding the dreadful 'do, rather than just an aesthetic one. Andrew Hogan, a Tasmanian optometrist, suggests in an interview with the Hobart-based newspaper The Mercury that "if a young emo chap has a fringe covering one eye all the time, that eye won't see a lot of detail ... and if it happens from a young age, that eye can become amblyopic". Amblyopia is also known as "lazy eye" syndrome.
FM Mangal, 54 Camberwell Church Street, London SE5
Sunday 20 May 2012
There has to be good reason to traipse across town for a kebab. And this secret sauce might be it...
High street haggling really does pay
Sunday 20 May 2012
Recession-hit retailers need customers, but a Which? survey finds a third of us are still too afraid to negotiate a deal
Non-white births now a majority in US
Friday 18 May 2012
For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities account for more than half the children born in the US – the result of decades of heady immigration growth.
At it amour and nails: polish naming and the fine art of punning
Friday 18 May 2012
Long gone are the days when nail polish colours were called things like Midnight Blue and Red Vixen; with so little to differentiate between competitors' shades, companies now rely on the most outrageous and puntastic names to shift their product.
David Cameron warns of possible euro break-up
Wednesday 16 May 2012
Europe faces the potential break-up of the single currency unless it takes urgent action to deal with the euro crisis, Prime Minister David Cameron warned today.
Garbage, The Troxy, London
Thursday 10 May 2012
It was as if they’d never been away. Flame-haired Scottish siren Shirley Manson and her American band returned to glorious form tonight after a seven-year hiatus. Despite touring to promote a new album, Not Your Kind Of People, which hits record stores next week, the band rewarded their patient fanbase and the evening consisted of some serious old school Garbage.
Vidal Sassoon, the man who invented modern hairdressing, dies aged 84
Thursday 10 May 2012
The stylist opened his first salon in London in 1954 and helped shape the look of the Swinging Sixties
Beautiful way to revive the economy
Tuesday 08 May 2012
Gloom sweeps Europe, unemployment keeps rising and pay rises are a distant memory. But hope for the economy arrives today in an unlikely, though beautifully coiffured, shape: hairdressers.








