It must be a surreal kind of fun to be a Jonas Brother right about now. Think of something – anything – you want, and your wish is granted. Celebrate your win at the American Music Awards this month with a last-minute gig at the House of Blues on ...

1 Dec 2008

TWELVE hours after gunmen stormed a Jewish centre in Mumbai, Sandra Samuel heard the cries of a small child outside the room in which she had barricaded herself. She opened the door, grabbed a two-year-old boy and ran outside with another centre ...

27 Nov 2008

What's this? "Lipstick Jungle" may not be cancelled after all , although it remains very much on the bubble. According to the New York Times, last Friday's airing of the Brooke Shields series showed enough life to inspire NBC to issue a stay of ...

17 Nov 2008

Yeah, it’s new wave by numbers. But check out them numbers. ‘One Week Of Danger’ is the Fibonacci ratio of the genre – if you think you’ve heard it before, you probably have, because it’s embedded in the DNA of everything that ever made ...

30 Oct 2008

In The Guardian , lovable imp Alex Petrirdis makes a facetious connection between AC/DC and the economy, showing that the band's most successful points (such as right now) correspond with negative economic indicators, and their biggest flops come ...

30 Oct 2008

There have been 1,003 coalition deaths -- 623 Americans, six Australians, 124 Britons, 97 Canadians, three Czech, 16 Danes, 17 Dutch, three Estonians, one Finn, 22 French, 25 Germans, two Hungarians, 12 Italians, one Latvian, one Lithuanian, one NATO ...

22 Oct 2008