Paloma Faith has Etta James, Tina Turner on dressing room playlist

Source: Digital Spy

Paloma Faith has revealed the songs she listens to before a live gig. The star has Etta James's 'Something's Got a Hold on Me' and Tina Turner's 'Nutbush City Limits' on her dressing room playlist. Talking about James's classic she told Amazon ...
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Media Talk podcast: Adam Smith and Frédéric Michel before Leveson

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Media Talk this week comes from the Royal Courts of Justice where we'll be discussing the testimonies of Adam Smith and Frédéric Michel. Plus we'll asses the chances of the Hump in this year's Eurovision song contest John Plunkett and Dan S ...
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New Books Party: books received this week | @GrrlScientist

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Little brown jobs Sold for two farthings Dead and dirty birds The Sparrow War The fall of a sparrow in Providence Inheriting the Earth Introduction: the varieties of objectivity Is objectivity a form of honesty? Doesn't science show there ...
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A week on the web: Eurovision 2012

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off It's Eurovision time once again, and the excitement is mounting ahead of Saturday's final. Well, Jedward are excited in any case. Will it be or a hit or miss this year? He ...
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2012: The Place That Was

Source: The Photography Blog

Documentary photographer Juliana Edwards (pictured) has published a powerful photographic record of the east London site that will house the 2012 Olympics. She set out to document the human traces before the ...
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Guardian Viral Video Chart: James Bond gets busy while Jedward get wet

Source: The Guardian Music

Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off Watch the Fresh Prince rapping, a Lamborghini crashing and Jedward dripping in our rundown of the top online clips The online world was shaken AND stirred this week with the release of the ver ...
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‘Rupert Murdoch’s shadow state’ and other bullshit

Source: Spiked

The fuller-figured Watson is famous for two things: for once claiming the maximum food allowance granted to MPs (£4,800), and for sitting on the Culture, Media and Sports Select Committee which grilled Rupert and Ja ...
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Tony Judt: the last public intellectual?

Source: Spiked

This is the conclusion of the late British historian Tony Judt in his interviews with US historian, Timothy Snyder, in Thinking the Twentieth Century. Judt came to prominence for his brilliant 2005 book, Postwar, a panoramic survey of Europ ...
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Thank you, Maurice Sendak

Source: Spiked

I didn’t always think this way. As a child I thought Where the Wild Things Are was the most frustrating book of all. I loved the rich colours and texture of the illustrations, the transformation of Max’s bedroom and the ...
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