The Spotted Pig: a succulent slice of NY lifeThis starry joint may be a celeb favourite but they’ll find no special favour...Sat Nov 01 2014 - 01:00
Breaking up is hard to do. The Divorce Magazine aims to make it easierThere are specialist magazines for just about everything. This online one helps couples in crisisSat Oct 25 2014 - 01:00
More than a game: how sport stars’ memoirs took over the bestseller listsWe love the gossipy delights of a well-written autobiography, as Roy Keane’s new one, ‘The Second Half’, has shown this weekSat Oct 11 2014 - 01:00
Send in the Clown: Red Bastard mania to hit GalwayHe’s mad and bad and it’s dangerous at his shows. Eric Davis tells Brian Boyd the secrets of Red Bastard’s successFri Oct 10 2014 - 00:00
Scorpion: Walter O'Brien on his life off-screenThe high-tech escapades in the TV version of his life can sound run of the mill when you hear Walter O’Brien talk about his work, from nannying ‘supergeniuses’ to breaking journalists out of jailSat Oct 04 2014 - 01:00
U2 announce details of ‘secret project’ with AppleBand exploring a new digital musical format to help musicians get paid for their workFri Sept 19 2014 - 15:18
Cui Bono? 26 old U2 albums re-enter the iTunes chartsThe band was paid €100 million by Apple to allow their new much to go out for freeMon Sept 15 2014 - 00:52
Bono’s Dublin: ‘A long way from where I live’When U2 struggled with their new album they sought inspiration in 1970s Dublin, a place of hidden violence, home to a new-wave music scene and a group of friends who were not yet U2. ‘A lot of sh*t got dragged up,’ says BonoSat Sept 13 2014 - 01:00
Bob saw it coming – the times they have changed, changed utterlyLet’s take a quick look at the bleak future facing all forms of popular musicFri Sept 12 2014 - 00:00
James Vincent McMorrow misses out on Mercury shortlistKate Tempest and FKA Twiggs favourites as award ceases flirtation with the mainstreamWed Sept 10 2014 - 19:59
First listen: U2’s Songs of Innocence‘A Dublin Album, all about teenagers on the Northside,’ says Bono at Apple launchTue Sept 09 2014 - 23:05
U2 to appear in California for the launch of Apple’s new iPhone 6Band’s new album expected to be streamed exclusively on phoneTue Sept 09 2014 - 03:00
How to make sure nobody steals your naked selfiesIt has been a bad week for Jennifer Lawrence and the other celebrities whose personal photographs were posted online. It’s time we all stepped up our securityFri Sept 05 2014 - 12:00
If you can’t Beats them, buy themThe month-long iTunes music festival could be a game-changerFri Sept 05 2014 - 00:00
Caroline Wozniacki showing that hell hath no fury like a top tennis player scornedFormer world number one is regaining her form since the split from Rory McIlroyThu Sept 04 2014 - 01:00
Meet the electronic moneybagsThere’s more to Wake Me Up than the sound of banjos and cash tillsWed Sept 03 2014 - 17:24
Clickety-clack: the sound of the typewriter is backTom Hanks’s passion for typewriters has led him to create an iPad version of a vintage machine, an app called Hanx Writer, that’s enthralling ink headsFri Aug 29 2014 - 01:00
"But I’m on the guest list" . . . No Ticket, no Picnic - unless you're this guyFri Aug 22 2014 - 00:00
The sad clown clichePeople are often quick to see depression as a byproduct of good comedy, but a more throughtful, more helpful conversation has followed Robin Williams’s deathSat Aug 16 2014 - 01:00
Taking the temperature of the Mercury Music Prize . . . still tepidWill Kate Tempest and FKA twigs be slugging it out for the 2014 award?Fri Aug 15 2014 - 00:00
Robin Williams: So plentiful were his gifts he rarely reached for ‘off’ switchHe always said he was most liberated when doing stand-up – protected by the force field of genius the way he was not when he was ‘Robin Williams’ walking down the streetWed Aug 13 2014 - 01:00
Caffeine: view it as a potent drugCoffee and energy drinks are widely available and so we are drinking much more caffeineTue Aug 12 2014 - 01:00
Scorpion: How an Irish genius saved the worldA drama due to air in the US next month, is based on the life of Walter O’Brien, a former hacker who helped catch the Boston bombersSat Aug 09 2014 - 01:00
U2: Stuck in a momentIt has been five years since U2’s last album, and their new one still isn’t quite ready. That hasn’t stopped Bono playing it to passing holidaymakers. What’s going on?Sat Aug 09 2014 - 01:00
Sinéad O’Connor album review: I’m Not Bossy, I’m the BossMaybe O'Connor really has got what she wantsFri Aug 08 2014 - 00:00
These ‘weirdest ever’ lyrics are really nothing to freak out aboutA new poll of the weirdest song lyrics ever includes songs by The Killers, The Beatles and Black Eyed Peas, but read between the lines and they’re not so strangeFri Aug 08 2014 - 00:00
Musicians and the Middle East: there’s no middle groundEddie Vedder, Rihanna and more enter the war zoneFri Aug 01 2014 - 00:00
The big bucks theoryThe actors in the Big Bang Theory comedy show are about to become the highest paid in TV history, as shooting begins on an eighth series. But has the world’s most watched comedy programme lost its edge?Sat Jul 26 2014 - 01:00
Noah’s arc: from Apartheid to biting jokes about raceHaving grown up in South Africa with a black mother and white father, comedian Trevor Noah has a wide perspective on lifeThu Jul 24 2014 - 01:00
Weighty issues embedded in ‘#thinspiration’ controversyA US television host’s inadvertent use of the controversial hashtag has sparked a heated debateTue Jul 22 2014 - 01:00
Thinkers in online pop-culture tabloid reinterpretation shockThe ‘Philosophers’ Mail’, edited by Alain de Botton, re-examines some lowest common denominatorsSat Jul 19 2014 - 01:00
All by himself: Has Robin Thicke just released "one of the creepiest albums ever made"?After recent live Twitter Q&A, Blurred Lines singer's fall from commercial and critical grace looks completeFri Jul 18 2014 - 01:02
Never mind the gigs and festivals – who killed the live album?Once a crucial part of an artist’s career, these days the live album is all but extinctFri Jul 11 2014 - 00:00
USA goalie Tim Howard deflects negative perceptions of Tourette’sHe has made the most saves in a World Cup match. Having Tourette’s may have helpedSat Jul 05 2014 - 01:00
How the heck did Ed Sheeran become the most popular singer in the world?Surely it can’t all be down to the fact that he’s nice, bright, white and middle-class . . .Fri Jul 04 2014 - 00:00
In Brazil, Neymar, Suarez et al are all ears for the BeatsFifa and Sony score own goal in heavy-handed attempt to ban Dre's headphonesFri Jun 27 2014 - 00:00
Hey! Ho! Debut Ramones album gets a gold star – nearly 40 years onThree chords and the youth: Ramones’ simple punk formula changed rockFri Jun 20 2014 - 00:00
Metal? Bear-hunting? Glastonbury Rage Against the Metallica MachinePurists hopping mad over Metallica should just grin and bear itFri Jun 13 2014 - 00:00
Moola for music? Lily’s learned that if you don’t schmooze, you loseAs La Allen’s comeback shows, launching a new bottled water is more lucrative than having a hit songFri Jun 06 2014 - 00:00
Adidas deal puts Kanye in a champions league of his ownThe West/Kardashian road show has more than a wedding to celebrateFri May 30 2014 - 00:00
And on the seventh day, Eno released a not-very-good album. Hallelujah!Ambient music poineer, superstar-making producer – the godlike genius of Brian Eno is beyond question, but it’s heartening to know that even he can come up with a dud: Someday World, a collaboration with Underworld’s Karl HydeFri May 23 2014 - 10:19
Revolver: Taxing matters for Take That – and others‘Pop stars have about as much respect for tax laws as they have for their fans’Fri May 16 2014 - 00:00
