The Guardian:
The popular press can harrumph all they like, but if you can't misbehave when you're a student, when can you?Oh, to be a student again, pissed on freedom and curdled shots. This week, the Sun reports, "a plague of drunken youngsters", organised by events company Carnage UK, descended on Brighton: hospitality management stud (Read More)
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His new play, The Habit of Art, is ostensibly about Auden and Britten. In reality it's about Alan Bennett himself. We trace his journey of self-discoveryAlan Bennett has once or twice had a go at being a little more unbuttoned as he writes, but it hasn't always worked. "Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York," he on (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
His new play, The Habit of Art, is ostensibly about Auden and Britten. In reality it's about Alan Bennett himself. We trace his journey of self-discoveryAlan Bennett has once or twice had a go at being a little more unbuttoned as he writes, but it hasn't always worked. "Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York," he on (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Anyone who's anyone wears his rhyming slogan T-shirts. Supermodel Agyness Deyn is his best friend. And now this young peacock is putting the debonair into Debenhams…Henry Holland thinks that, on reflection, he did not inherit his style from his father. "He told me the other day he'd be wearing his new jacket to my sister's (Read More)
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Amid Andre Agassi's self-serving revelations about drugs and his rivals, Geoff Dyer finds some thrilling insights into the game of tennisNorman Mailer reckoned that, as big fights loomed, great boxers "begin to have inner lives like Hemingway or Dostoevsky, Tolstoy or Faulkner, Joyce or Melville". If Andre Agassi's Open is (Read More)
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How the Lebanese capital went from warzone to 2010's most glamorous tourist destinationA whole new road system has been built from Beirut airport to the city centre since the last time I visited. What's more, there are new, exciting roadside accessories. "Oh my God!" says my friend Anna. "What's that?""It's a traffic light, (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Amid Andre Agassi's self-serving revelations about drugs and his rivals, Geoff Dyer finds some thrilling insights into the game of tennisNorman Mailer reckoned that, as big fights loomed, great boxers "begin to have inner lives like Hemingway or Dostoevsky, Tolstoy or Faulkner, Joyce or Melville". If Andre Agassi's Open is (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
The Guidelines: Random notes from pop cultureSophie Barthes's engaging new comedy Cold Souls is the latest of a new breed of films that can be called "Kaufmanesque", with deference to the screenplays of Charlie Kaufman. In Kaufman's work, reality falls prey to meta-textual and metaphysical influences, usually with bitterswe (Read More)
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On the occasion of its 30th birthday, Britain's fourth or fifth funniest comic does its business - Warf! Warf! – all over our pages. Click the images on the right of the story for our exclusive Viz stripsThis month sees the 30th anniversary of "the magazine that's not as funny as it used to be". Viz, Chris Donald's foul-mou (Read More)
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Set in the 1960s, the final novel in James Ellroy's 'Underworld USA' trilogy reflects the here and now, writes Christopher TaylerJames Ellroy often tells interviewers that he has no interest in current events, but even he seems to feel that the stars are in alignment for the publication of Blood's a Rover, the closing novel (Read More)
Gizmodo:
In this week's never-gonna-switch-so-stop-asking app roundup: Free games, reinvented! Airplane anxiety, averted! Photos, wirelessly printed! Cool apps, discovered by other cool apps! Navigation, cheapened! Black Friday rush, preempted! Google Wave, appified! Screens, pointlessly tapped! And more! The Best Chorus: Hey, Appl (Read More)
Mashable!:
America’s most trusted satire newspaper and website, The Onion, has been steadily moving into online video in the past few years (with many hilarious pokes at the Web, the iPhone, and social media along the way).Now, the outfit has landed a very real deal with Comedy Central to develop a pilot for a show based on its Onion (Read More)
Gizmodo:
The TwitterPeek is a crazy device. But hey, now that Peek has gone down this road, why stop there? Here are some free ideas for the next generation of Peek handheld devices. NotepadPeek Take notes on the go! Never be without your shopping list again! Doesn't sync with anything on your normal computer. $99 for six months of (Read More)
Huffington Post:
The only thing more frightening than being caught in an angry mob of health care protesters is revealing to that angry mob that you work for the Huffington Post. On Thursday, I ventured down to Capital Hill with a professional death wish. I was going to mingle with a group of tea partiers to get a sense of what, exactly, ke (Read More)