Handsome trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s take on the creation of a modern cult. Anderson denies it is the story of Scientology but the comparison is inevitable: ‘He’s making all this up as he goes along – you don’t see that?’ Starring Joaquim Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams, the film is due out in the UK in November.
We came across Canadian fashion illustrator Danielle Meder recently at the Scottish Fashion Awards. She was crouched at the side the red carpet producing amazingly lovely sketches at lightning speed. Below is an edited piece from her excellent blog Final Fashion in which she shares her unique point of view of this month’s haute couture shows in Paris. Danielle specialises in live runway sketching, design drawings and sophisticated paper dolls. You
by Jennifer Cairney ‘This is what panthers would sound like…if panthers could sing.’ Maya Angelou uses this phrase to describe a character in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and it fits these three to perfection. Sleek, powerful and more than a little bit scary their performances are unmarred by the fact that one of them totally disagrees with the lyrics they are singing, one of them is dressed as
There are three things worth knowing about Magic City, described as a cross between Mad Men and The Sopranos. Currently airing and being talked about in the States the series has not reached our shores yet. The three things are: 1. According to his twitter feed Xavi Alonso, the red-headed Spanish footballer is checking the series out. He is part of the best national football team ever. Spain won the
Oliver Burkeman is an award winning journalist, now based in Brooklyn, whose regular column in The Guardian explores popular psychology and self help culture. His beautifully written and genuinely helpful new book – The Antidote: Happiness for People who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking – questions the merit of relentless positivity in the pursuit of happiness and indeed the pursuit of happiness itself. Burkeman introduces the book in this excellent animation
Even with the optimism of youth a child might not expect Albert Einstein to be the best pen pal yet… in between sleeping for 10 hours a night, developing theories of relativity and being the most famous scientist on the planet, the physicist found time to reply to some of the children who wrote to him. From the charming Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein’s Letters to and from Children comes the following exchange
York Minster was wall-to-wall grass last week for the York Minister Rose dinner to raise funds for the restoration of the building. The living grass – called Wow!Grass! because that’s what people say when they see it – is grown in felt made from recycled textiles rather than soil. It can be rolled up afterwards without leaving a mess. Developed by York-based specialist Lindum for the events industry, it has been
Interesting story this – and one that is surprisingly little known or mentioned in this country. In 1968, Petula Clark was a big star in America with a recent string of 15 number one hits and her own show of which her husband was the producer. She invited Harry Belafonte to duet with her on the show and, at the end of an emotional performance of On the Path of
What would you say to your 16 year-old self apart from buy shares in Google, go easy on the recreational drugs and avoid stonewashed denim. Dear Me is a collection of letters by celebrities to their teenage selves. Journalist and former editor of GT magazine, Joseph Galliano has edited this book with a foreword by JK Rowling. Celebrities include Alan Carr, Alice Cooper, Gillian Anderson, Emma Thompson, Stephen King, Hugh
Do you ever feel like you end up spending more time reading the guide book than you do travelling? Not so with these maps now selling in the Avocado Sweet Shop and published by Herb Lester Associates. Billed as introductions to cities rather than a comprehensive guides, the maps are described as ‘a guide to the usual and the unusual’. For Clandestine London, the publisher has ‘scoured the city for pubs with