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.
Fashion royalty: 60 years of the Queen's wardrobe
Monday 28 May 2012
From primrose yellow day coats to voluminous couture ballgowns, silk headscarves to jaunty turbans, the Queen is a very particular style icon. Rebecca Gonsalves looks at her wardrobe over 60 years on the throne
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
The Week In Radio: How the cry-baby British lost their Blitz spirit
Thursday 24 May 2012
Whatever happened to stoicism? At what point did we Brits give up on the chilliness enforced by centuries of corporal punishment and parental indifference and yield to the impulse to get everything out in the open? When exactly did we turn into a nation of cry babies boo-hooing to our therapists about how our parents never showed us affection and are thus responsible for everything that went wrong thereafter?
Dragon’s Dogma – Review
Wednesday 23 May 2012
A huge, unflinchingly tough RPG which fans of the genre should look out for.
Jedward through to Eurovision final
Wednesday 23 May 2012
Jedward have made it through to their second Eurovision Song Contest final.
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.
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.
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.
Hairdressers make short work of recession
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.








