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Latitude 2013: Five minutes with... Intensi T
Tuesday 21 May 2013
Armed with just a microphone and a loop pedal, Intensi-T makes astonishing beats just with his mouth. See him to believe him.
Gizzi Erskine: 'My background is in butchery; I don't get the same thrill from baking'
Sunday 28 April 2013
I cooked from a young age My mum was single parent, so she'd use us in the kitchen like little slaves, peeling the vegetables and doing the washing up. She had a lot of dinner parties for which she needed a lot of help with complicated food. I got a thrill from cooking things such as whole salmon.
Be your own student Masterchef: Cooking delicious food with simple ingredients
Tuesday 23 April 2013
No matter what anyone might say, cooking for yourself doesn't have to mean beans on toast. Student gastronome Joe McMullan has a few basic lessons for those of you who aspire to greater meals
The 10 Best slow cookers
Thursday 11 April 2013
With the warm weather still some way off, it's the perfect time to invest in a pot that makes easy work of stews and soups...
Theatre Review: Molly Sweeney, Print Room, London
Wednesday 03 April 2013
Can you say of a face that it is “bunched” with artless merriment in the way that a fist can be said to be bunched in anger or frustration? You'd swear that that perception was permissible if you'd seen the concertedly beaming countenance of Dorothy Duffy as she sits and gently rocks on the rope swing that hangs from a barren tree Abigail Graham's astonishingly well-acted and quietly devastating revival of Molly Sweeney at the Print Room.
China starts to get tough with North Korea
Sunday 24 March 2013
Beijing is restricting trade with its impoverished neighbour in retaliation for nuclear tests
What's worse than finding a mouse in your flat?
Friday 22 March 2013
Student houses aren’t always in the best nick, but vermin aren’t the only things you need to worry about. Eleanor Doughty discovered the one thing worse than finding a mouse behind her dresser...
Latitude 2013: Five minutes with... Moon Duo
Thursday 21 March 2013
Cosmic travellers Moon Duo aren't just wizards of trippy space rock - they're also the headliners of Latitude's iArena stage, sponsored by i. We caught up with them to ask a few key questions
Review: A Wong, 70-71 Wilton Road, London SW1
Sunday 17 March 2013
Our reviewer goes in search of a Cantonese 'greatest hits' at A Wong
Grace Dent on TV: A Very British Wedding
Friday 15 March 2013
I don't know why this wedding involves a vodka syringe, but if you actually like people it's a delight
- 1 What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
- 2 'Something passed underneath us, quite close': Airbus A320 has close encounter with UFO
- 3 Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
- 4 Lord of the Sings: Sir Christopher Lee, 91, to release heavy metal album
- 5 Exclusive: Woolwich killings suspect Michael Adebolajo was inspired by cleric banned from UK after urging followers to behead enemies of Islam
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