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Low note: EMI carve-up

13.10.11
EMI is poised to be carved up after the auction of the British music group failed to flush out a bidder for the whole business... more

Santa's weirdest fan joins South Bank festive season

20.07.11
American film director John Waters is set to put the 'X' into Xmas as he brings his one-man show about the festive season to the South Bank this Christmas... more

Christmas tree lights Korea border as South drills army

22.12.10
South Korea lights a 100ft Christmas tree on the border to signal its determination not to be bullied by the North in the latest stage of their propaganda war... more

Lady Gaga tears the head off Santa toy and rips into Christmas

17.12.10
Lady Gaga’s famous eccentricity took a less-than-festive turn when she tore the head off a stuffed Santa Claus at her O2 show... more

A whirl of madness and joy from Ke$ha

15.12.10
Although she’s effectively an own-label Lady Gaga, the former Kesha Sebert is a party in motion and she’s swept her native America like a good-time rash... more

City Spy: Baroness Vadera and her leaking ‘admirers’

14.12.10
Baroness Vadera’s appointment to the board of BHP Billiton sends City Spy scurrying to the leaked US diplomatic cables, courtesy of WikiLeaks... more

Gillian McKeith: I'm A Celebrity was 'like a horror movie'

07.12.10
Gillian McKeith admitted she was embarrassed by fainting on I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here, describing the show as being "like a horror movie that never ended"... more

Santa Claus is coming in Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

03.12.10
Jaimari Helander has almost certainly made the most original of the seasonal films likely to fill the cinemas come Yuletide with Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale ... more

Shopping malls soar as US rival begins to look interested

25.11.10
Most Americans were chowing down on their Thanksgiving turkey today, but there were some who preferred to sniff around British shopping centres... more

Jackass 3D is all dirty schoolboy fun

05.11.10
Some of their stunts are clearly staged and Johnny Knoxville and his boys roar with possibly fake laughter as they perform them in Jackass 3D... more

A cool yule in Copenhagen

21.10.10
Come Christmas time, Denmark’s capital comes into its own, with markets, skating and snow all around, says Nick Curtis... more

Looking hip in hotspots

03.08.10
Remember these suitcase essentials if you’re off for fun in the sun, says Karen Dacre.... more

Reds in the bed in The Last Station

19.02.10
The Last Station leaves us with the vague impression that anarcho-pacifists are a bunch of sexually frustrated losers.... more

Would ‘dear old postie’ strike at Christmas?

01.12.09
As I write my first batch of Christmas cards, I hover over who to send them to. Last year the early north winds of recession knocked out any corporate festive exchanges... more

Sound check: Schoolboy ready to rap and roll

12.06.09
Before setting off on the festival circuit, rapper Chipmunk is taking his A-levels.... more

5p shopping bag and chocolate Santa Claus...

08.05.09
A series of eyebrow-raising expenses claims by unnamed MPs are revealed today. They include claims for carrier bags, sweets and kitchen accessories - and even pet food and horse manure... more

Damaging truth on directors’ pay

07.01.09
Institutional shareholders have been warning for months that they would not tolerate massive pay awards in the current climate... more

Amy Winehouse isn't going back to Blake in a hurry

05.01.09
Amy Winehouse gets close to a hunk as she holidays in sunny St Lucia.... more

Is chrome the key to recovery?

18.12.08
Bad times inevitably provoke economic nationalism and this may just help rekindle the American public's love of the automobile... more

Best Christmas concerts in London

12.12.08
Harps, Handel's Messiah and indoor fireworks — here’s our guide to the best of the Christmas concerts.... more

Don’t feel too nostalgic for the Woolies era: life has just moved on

12.12.08
We should not be surprised at the demise of a high street favourite, says one social historian. It lost its place in British culture years ago... more

Mum, they are taking the pith

12.11.08
Victoria Beckham had some explaining to do when she took her youngest son to see Santa Claus - and he wasn't there.... more

Westfield fails to dent West End… for now

05.11.08
How is the new £1.6 billion Shepherd’s Bush shopping centre Westfield London faring?... more

A Savage sweetness

21.01.08
In-demand actress Laura Linney reveals why she turned down a blockbuster and talks about having a thing for Santa Claus.... more

Singalong with Springsteen

20.12.07
Bruce Springsteen reunited with his E Street Band for an evening full of fun and singalong crowd participation at the O2.... more

Too nasty for the nursery

30.11.07
The Yuletide exhibition at Dulwich Gallery, usually addressed to children, Age of Enchantment, has fallen under a malicious spell this year.... more

Small-town trial by Romanian television

16.08.07
12.08 East from Bucharest is funny, eccentric and a wonderful testimony to the selectivity and frequent hypocrisy of memory.... more

More than just ginger dreadlocks

05.04.07
Apart from his magnificent ginger dreadlocks, Newton Faulkner's most obvious asset is his prodigious mastery of the guitar.... more

Lizzie hits the spot with her oral history

15.02.07
Character comic Lizzie Roper recounts people's sexual foibles using replayed interviews relayed to her live via an iPod and the result is frankly funny if frequently very filthy.... more

Lips keep a flame for a better world

14.11.06
The Flaming Lips lifted the Hammersmith Apollo crowd to damp-eyed peaks of ecstasy for two hours amid a barrage of day-glo lunacy and Sesame Street psychedelia.... more


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