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Agenda: Miharayasuhiro; Jamie N Commons; Mother's Day; Frankenweenie; Super Morrissey Bros

 

Sunday 11 March 2012 01:00 GMT
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Fashion: Take the tough with the smooth

Part dress, part jacket, the Miharayasuhiro biker dress has arrived at Browns. So what if sugar and spice and all things nice are the directives for spring? This black leather number has it all in its tough zippered bodice and pleated skater skirt. The perfect antidote to all the pastels on show – and it'll work for winter, too. £1,500, Miharayasuhiro at brownsfashion.com

Face to watch: Jamie N Commons

Believe us it's a compliment when we say this south-London boy is 22 going on 52: his battered rasp of a voice recalls Tom Waits and he has the bedamned moodiness to match. His latest single "Devil in Me" is out on 26 March

Social networking: Match the tweet to the star

Paul Daniels, Stephen Mangan, Antony Cotton, Tony Blackburn

1 I wanna go home. I'm a poorly celebrity, lemme outta here

2 Seriously though, Madam Tussaud's? Why would you? And every day they queue to get in. Why?

3 Show me a friend in need, and I'll show you a pest.

4 BOYS IN GREEN ROOM STARE INTO THE MIDDLE DISTANCE. END OF SCENE.

Answers at the bottom of the page

App watch: Action Movie FX

WREAK SOME imaginative havoc with this crash, bang, wallop of an app that allows you to shake up your home videos with some hefty special effects – from a missile attack to a car smash and a tornado to a wrecking ball. OK, so it may not be terribly sophisticated, but when did that ever stop Michael Bay? Free from iTunes store

Lexpionage: Cardinal synonym

A word or concept that bears no relation to another word or concept but may be ludicrously equated with it for the purposes of desperate bigotry, e.g. "slavery" in reference to "gay marriage"

On the radar: Because some things are still worth getting excited about...

Events: Mother's Day

Prove your filial worth next Sunday with one of two infallible gifts: the DVD of BBC hit drama Call the Midwife, out tomorrow, or a trip to the Cooking with Flowers workshop at west London's Idler Academy.

Films: Frankenweenie

Hurrah for Tim Burton's latest return to stop-motion animation: a canine twist on Mary Shelley, building on his 1984 short of the same name. It's out in October, and you can catch the trailer here: bit.ly/zHzI94

Music: Super Morrissey Bros

Truly, you can't claim to be a Smiths connoisseur until you've heard "This Charming Man"re-imagined with Super Mario Bros noises. Oh, to the sound of a plaintive Power Up. bit.ly/A5kJAR

Match the tweet: 1. Paul Daniels; 2. Stephen Mangan; 3. Tony Blackburn; 4. Antony Cotton.

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