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Sunday 28 July 2013
Watch the videos below to view previews and trailers for some of the projects Benedict Wong's recent projects.
Video: Benedict Wong
Sunday 28 July 2013
Watch the videos below to view previews and trailers for some of the projects Benedict Wong's recent projects.
Steve Richards: Rock N Roll Politics, Soho Theatre, London
Thursday 04 July 2013
Given that I'm currently embroiled in a bitter political battle against my local council (albeit with the hearty support of my MP) I might be Steve Richards' toughest audience member tonight, somewhat resistant to the idea that politicians are human beings, insecure and tortured by dilemma.
Paperback review: May We Be Forgiven, By A M Homes
Sunday 30 June 2013
America, but with humour and panache
Invisible Ink: No 177 - George McCutcheon
Saturday 15 June 2013
Whimsy is hard to pull off. In the wrong hands it becomes fey and cloying. When it's done well it can create a loyal, lasting audience, as Terry Pratchett will tell you.
Cameos 'Diamond' Joe Biden is the latest to post a selfie
Sunday 05 May 2013
Diamond Joe Biden, Scranton's finest, strikes again. While our politicians struggle awkwardly with pop culture (think David Cameron hanging with One Direction or Gordon Brown "enjoying" the Arctic Monkeys), the US Vice-President shows us how it's done.
Will new ITV sitcom Vicious starring Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi prove a watershed for gay relationships in TV drama?
Monday 29 April 2013
Take our poll: Are LGBT characters fairly represented on British TV?
Album review: They Might Be Giants, Nanobots (Lojinx)
Friday 05 April 2013
Over three decades as They Might Be Giants, the Brooklyn duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell have developed into a sort of post-modern Flanders & Swann, crafting sharp, witty and entertaining little satires on contemporary mores, set to a dizzying range of styles chosen for humorous emphasis.
Who on earth actually thinks Mary Portas is the solution to the crisis on our high streets?
Thursday 14 February 2013
Irreversible changes in consumer behaviour, disruptive technologies, and recession are together destroying our High Streets. I know, send for the Queen of Shops!
Gotta love those Royals: on the Tube, eating Big Macs, doing a day’s work
Thursday 31 January 2013
Just imagine the possibilities if the Royals were just like us...
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, BAC, London
Monday 07 January 2013
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's magical realist fable proves to be the perfect vehicle for this bewitching collaboration between Islington's Little Angel Theatre and Cornwall's Kneehigh company.
Malcolm Tucker and the The Thick of It triumph at the British Comedy Awards
Thursday 13 December 2012
Peter Capaldi and Rebecca Front won best actor and actress gongs for their efforts in Armando Iannucci's Shadow Cabinet
Judd Apatow script for the Simpsons to air after 22 years
Thursday 22 November 2012
The longest-running American sitcom and the director who has moulded 21st century film comedy in his own image are to team up, as it's been reported that the Simpsons will be turning a script written by Judd Apatow, director of Knocked Up, into an episode next year.
IoS book review: Ban This Filth: Letters from the Mary Whitehouse Archieve, Ed Ben Thompson
Sunday 18 November 2012
Mary, Mary, quite contrary
- 1 Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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