TV BBC One's morning strip of daytime television should under normal circumstances be avoided like all hyper-addictive substances. Each utilises a similar structure of only ever presenting a snippet of a given "story" which forces the v...
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Music I'm not entirely sure what's being applied or achieved here, but yes, The Cure and Sugababes. Thank you, YouTube uploader.
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TV There’s much that can be said about the so-called stunt or celebrity casting which inhabited or for some inhibited the closing embers of Doctor Who’s first run but what isn’t generally noted is how these choices usually aren’t the wo...
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Journalism Were you a student in York in the 1990s? Did you read one of the local student papers, The Matrix? Do you still have any? If so, York Press reports comedian Rosie Wilby wants to speak to you: "Rosie has filmed video int...
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TV Best mark this landmark. Neil and Sue have finished, the Adventures with the Wife in Space are done. Completed. The final end and with this final, brilliant post about the TV Movie: "And then the Master drops a bombshell: Th...
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Gardening Not entirely seasonal perhaps (look! sun!) but last December the Kennebec Journal published the story of Maine's Christmas trees: "About half of all Maine's Christmas trees begin at the same place, in the western Maine tow...
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Art In this mini-documentary, Jay Dockendorf of the New York Times reports: "In the sculpture park at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, one of the nation’s oldest art schools, a clandestine struggle is under way — over grammar. In rec...
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Marion Cotillard's reaction is spectacular [via]. "No, never went through a punk phase. Tonight, I'm supposed to say yes, but no..."
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Music An Origibabes update while I'm here. PopJustice reports Mutya Keisha Siobhan will be performing some songs at Brighton Pride in August (which I suppose to increases the excitment of August as a calender based entity). Will they ...
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TV As the latest television series draws to a close with its many questions (Who is the Doctor? Who is Clara? Will the ratings improve?) I thought it was worth reminding the casual fans amongst you (I know, so patronising) that the ne...
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