Friday 12 December 2014

Northern Bass: The Goldie touch

If there's one man who could be justifiably jaded about drum 'n' bass, it's Goldie. The genre pioneer has been at the forefront of the underground for more than 20 years and has seen many a slump and rise in the popularity of one...


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Pop goes the easel

In the early 60s just before the Beatles conquered America through a combination of art, smarts and image - and thereby shifted the coordinates of popular culture to Britain - America was the nexus of global pop culture and political...


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VIDEO: Sam Smith's stunning new video for Like I Can





TEAR-JERKER Sam Smith is looking good in a stylish tux as he breaks our hearts again in the brilliant video for new single Like I Can


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Cuba: Rappers targeted by USAID program 'victims'

HAVANA (AP) " Cuba says that rappers who were targeted by a clandestine U.S. program are "victims" unknowingly swept into an effort to spark an anti-government youth movement.In its first reaction to an Associated Press investigation...


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Beyoncé releases short film Yours and Mine one year after releasing surprise album





SHE'S a keen advocate of worldwide female rights.


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Museum displays rare portrait by Winslow Homer

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. (AP) " A rare oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer has been given as a gift to a Massachusetts museum.Clark Art Institute in Williamstown says the 1878 commissioned portrait of Charles Prentice Howland...


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Weather porn? Storms take over evening news

NEW YORK (AP) " The correspondent most frequently seen on either ABC, CBS or NBC's evening newscasts this year doesn't work out of the White House or some overseas trouble zone. It's Ginger Zee, ABC's chief meteorologist.Weather...


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Can stand-up provide refuge for Bill Cosby?

LOS ANGELES (AP) " For five decades, Bill Cosby maintained a busy stand-up career even as his TV visibility rose and fell and new generations of comedians took center stage.But the renewal of sexual assault claims that have soured...


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Garden of the Week: English Heritage’s Wrest Park





A 158-YEAR-OLD tree at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire could be Britain’s oldest surviving Christmas tree, according to English Heritage.


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Director mourns 'Side Show' closing on Broadway

NEW YORK (AP) " Show business is fickle. Just ask the folks in "Side Show."On the same day that the Broadway musical landed a coveted spot on the "Today" show, it announced it was closing.Emily Padgett and Erin Davie on Friday...


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Director mourns 'Side Show' closing on Broadway

NEW YORK (AP) " Show business is fickle. Just ask the folks in "Side Show."On the same day that the Broadway musical landed a coveted spot on the "Today" show, it announced it was closing.Emily Padgett and Erin Davies on Friday...


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Cuba: Rappers targeted by USAID program 'victims'

HAVANA (AP) " Cuba says that rappers who were targeted by a clandestine U.S. program are "victims" unknowingly swept into an effort to spark an anti-government youth movement.In its first reaction to an Associated Press investigation...


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Stars' secrets come under attack

Hackers have left movers and shakers in Hollywood nervous. Late last month, they breached the cyber security of Sony Pictures and have since leaked a trove of internal company data and emails. While some of the leaks reveal how...


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New Ailey dance pays tribute to civil rights icon

It would seem the timing could hardly be more apt for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's new civil rights-themed piece, "Odetta," a tribute to the late folk singer often referred to as the voice of the civil rights movement."I'd...


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'I don’t think I was a victim, I was a fool': Stephen Fry on his drug years





STEPHEN Fry has revealed he used his diaries to help him recall his wild antics while writing his memoir as he had forgotten all his crazy partying.


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An insider's top ten shocking revelations about Investment Bankers





SEX AND DRUGS to abuses of expenses and female staff: Lily Temperley's new book blows the lid off the real wolves of Wall Street


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An insider's top ten shocking revelations about Investment Bankers





SEX AND DRUGS to abuses of expenses and female staff: Lily Temperley's new book blows the lid off the real wolves of Wall Street


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Tom Hardy: The credible hulk

Tom Hardy likes to prowl. I recall when I interviewed him for Gavin O'Connor's Warrior , he hardly sat during a 40-minute conversation, instead roaming the large Soho hotel suite we were in, smoking out of the window or demonstrating...


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Review: Status Quo Leeds FD Arena 10/12/2014





MAKING jokes about keeling over on stage Tommy Cooper-style was a brave thing for 65-year-old Status Quo frontman Francis Rossi to do.


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VIDEO: It's really hotting up in the first trailer for Divergent sequel Insurgent!





THE HUNGER GAMES, but sexier? Shailene Woodley and Theo James sizzle in the first trailer for the Divergent sequel Insurgent


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