Games in posters

5:39pm Wednesday 20th August 2008

TO coincide with the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the build up to London 2012, the V&A Museum of Childhood’s summer exhibition, A Century of Olympic Posters is the first to bring together a large range of Olympic Games posters from the 1900 Paris Games to the present day.

Thank heaven for Topol and Co

5:33pm Wednesday 20th August 2008

WHEN MGM turned the Lerner and Loewe musical Gigi into a hugely successful film in 1958, the role of Honore was played by Maurice Chevalier and songs like ‘Thank Heaven for Little Girls’ and ‘I Remember it Well’ became inextricably linked with the French entertainer.

Bolly good show

5:22pm Wednesday 20th August 2008

The Unforgettable Tour, the largest indoor Bollywood extravaganza, in the UK takes place on Sunday August 24.

From Big Brother to book deal

5:13pm Wednesday 20th August 2008

THE Big Brother contestant who readily admits he has never read a book in his life puts pen to paper for his debut novel. Essex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll is the intriguingly, if not slightly unoriginally titled first work of Jonathan Durden, the notorious Big Brother housemate who found his personal life exposed further than expected last year when reports of his drug taking and soliciting were splashed across the national press.

Bunker is no secret anymore

5:05pm Wednesday 20th August 2008

IN the 1980s I was so fearful of the threat of an all-out war between the American and Soviet superpowers that I took my first, and to date, only steps down the road of political activism by deciding to join the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).

Get on the trail

5:10pm Wednesday 20th August 2008

LOVE will be in the air in Walthamstow next month if its artists have anything to do with it.

Sandler stretches comic boundaries

10:55am Friday 15th August 2008

The Waterboy star Adam Sandler explains why it took him eight years to make his new movie You Don't Mess With The Zohan. He wrote and produced the film, in which he plays an Israeli counter terrorist who decides to become a hairdresser.

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Festival fuses arts, culture and sports

10:47am Friday 15th August 2008

IN the month that the Olympic baton is officially passed to London, the Shoreditch Festival fuses themes of sport and art with a party atmosphere.

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A packed crowd get their teenage kicks

10:35am Friday 15th August 2008

Over 10,000 teenagers descended on Victoria Park, Hackney, at the weekend for the Underage Festival, a unique music event which is only open to under-18s. ANNA BINNS saw what all the fuss was about.

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Redemption play is Bard’s secret jewel

10:38am Friday 15th August 2008

Timon of Athens is one of Shakespeare’s more obscure plays, rarely performed and many experts have questioned if Shakespeare wrote it alone, or if it was a collaboration with another writer of the time.

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Brown visits troops in Afghanistan

Updated 8:33pm Thursday 21st August 2008

Gordon Brown hailed British troops fighting the Taliban as the true heroes of the Olympic year.

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