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“God Hates Fags”: America’s Most Hated Family In Crisis, Notebook

“God Hates Fags”: America’s Most Hated Family In Crisis

Yesterday Louis Theroux, the truly captivating investigative journalist who has delicately dissected the daily lives of every imaginable fringe group, presented his revisit to the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas.

By | Notebook, The Foreign Desk | Monday, 4 April 2011 at 4:47 pm

Why the saga of university fees is farcical – and the joke is on the students, Notebook

Why the saga of university fees is farcical – and the joke is on the students

With the news that some of the weakest universities in Britain are going to charge up to £9,000 a year in tuition fees, another scene in the Comedy of Errors of our university system is played out.

By | Notebook | Monday, 4 April 2011 at 4:45 pm

Today from <i>i</i>: Over-the-top sculptures, Notebook

Today from i: Over-the-top sculptures

Today’s graphic from i

By | Notebook | Monday, 4 April 2011 at 3:51 pm

Caught & Social: Handle with gloves, Notebook

Caught & Social: Handle with gloves

Daily gossip from the world of celeb

By | Notebook | Monday, 4 April 2011 at 3:35 pm

Ear To The Ground: Maxsta, Music

Ear To The Ground: Maxsta

East London’s Maxsta has been causing a stir on the underground music scene for quite some time now, but after recently getting signed to Just Jam Records (a Sony RCA sub-label imprint), this 18-year-old grime MC is out to show everyone that he isn’t just any old ‘average kid’. Joseph ‘JP’ Patterson speaks to the rising star…

By | Music, Notebook | Monday, 4 April 2011 at 2:57 pm

Digital Digest, Digital Digest

Digital Digest

Links to the best of the web

By | Digital Digest | Monday, 4 April 2011 at 12:55 pm

Games review roundup: Shift 2: Unleashed; PES 2011 3D; Okamiden; Super Monkey Ball 3D, Games

Games review roundup: Shift 2: Unleashed; PES 2011 3D; Okamiden; Super Monkey Ball 3D

A weekly roundup of our bite-size games reviews, this week featuring the horsepower of Shift 2: Unleashed; a new dimension for football sims in PES 2011 3D; dog paint dog with Okamiden; more from AiAi, MeeMee, et al in Super Monkey Ball 3D.

By | Games, Notebook | Monday, 4 April 2011 at 9:48 am

Online House Hunter: What your house is worth, Property

Online House Hunter: What your house is worth

What’s your house worth? A number of online valuation websites will tell you in an instant. But our Online House Hunter Alan Cleaver urges some caution

By | Property | Monday, 4 April 2011 at 7:00 am

Wickedly tempting: an interview with Glinda the Good, Arts

Wickedly tempting: an interview with Glinda the Good

Having broken box office records around the world and received countless awards, it’s no wonder Wicked is still going strong in the West End. A year on from when the shiny new cast joined in 2010 and they’re eager to get young people involved in writing by bringing back the Wicked Young Writers Award for a second year. Louise Dearman, who plays Glinda, talks about why encouraging young people to get into writing is important, and her time as the star of the musical that was last year awarded an Olivier Audience Award for the Most Popular Show.

By | Arts, Notebook | Monday, 4 April 2011 at 6:00 am

Review of the new Doctor Who trailer, Notebook

Review of the new Doctor Who trailer

The wait is almost over. The Doctor is nearly here. This week saw the release of the trailer for series 6 of Doctor Who, so the question is: What is in store for our Time Lord and his companions this time around?

By | Notebook | Saturday, 2 April 2011 at 2:56 am

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