I am the envy of all of my more nerdish friends. I’ve just been given a PlayStation 3 for work – I’m going to be reviewing games on it – and my gamer friends can hardly believe my luck.
Always Coca-Cola? Not for Joya Williams, you suspect.
Liam Gallagher and Damon Albarn can officially retire from the ring: there’s a new knives-out fight in town, courtesy of pop chanteuse Lily Allen and Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole, nee Tweedy.
The father and manager of American singers and reality television stars Jessica and Ashlee Simpson is looking for a new job: he wants to be Britney Spears’s manager.
Sometimes, it’s the small situations that reveal your own biases to you.
Effigies have been burned, threats have been issued and legal action has been taken – this is one kiss that Hollywood actor Richard Gere and Bollywood actress and Celebrity Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty won’t forget any time soon.
There’s a good reason why Jim Crace never writes autobiographical fiction. It’s got to do with his personal history of happiness.
AT THE SAME TIME, By Susan Sontag, Farrar Straus Giroux, €25.
A few weeks ago, a guy asked for my number.
Two weeks ago, he was just another political strategist working in Washington. But now Philip de Vellis has been revealed as the creator of Hillary 1984, the anti-Hillary Clinton video that in the past two weeks has been watched by around 1.4 million
Neil Hannon’s latest album as The Divine Comedy has confounded expectations by scooping the prestigious Choice Music Prize and the man himself is only too pleased to savour the moment.
Ask any music industry person what they like most about the Choice Music Prize, Ireland’s recently established equivalent of the Mercury Music Prize, and the same answer will keep coming to you, steady and sure.
Last Wednesday night, while Take That were triumphantly collecting their Brit award for Best British single, former member Robbie Williams was checking out a rather more gloomy vista: the facilities at the Meadows rehabilitation clinic in Arizona.
Nude images of Harry Potter? Well, not exactly, but it’s something almost as worrying for concerned parents: nude pictures of Daniel Radcliffe.
The Goddess Guide, by Gisele Scanlon, HarperCollins, €18.
