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The Hard Sell: Fiat Punto
"In assenting to Fiat's overtures, Faithless have not so much shyly assented as dived in legs akimbo"
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The King Is Dead, what's it all about?
Simon "Will from The Inbetweeners" Bird has written and stars in new BBC3 comedy show, The King Is Dead. Simon attempts to explain.
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From Stacey Solomon to Purple Turtle, this week's winners and losers
Populist: The column that's been autotuned. Again
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Arcade Fire take The Suburbs to The Daily Show
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Will this new movie kill off torture porn for good?
Cinema's worst movement ever has hit rock bottom with a film so grim even Pete Cashmore couldn't make it up … though he has a go with this handy horror Spot The Fake
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Grace Dent's World of lather
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New film The Runaways shows both sides of the rock and roll dream
Joan Jett may have loved rock'n'roll but it almost killed her former band, the Runaways. John Patterson thinks it's time we faced the music
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This week's new films
The Maid | Scott Pilgrim Vs The World | The Girl Who Played With Fire | Diary Of A Wimpy Kid | The Last Seven | Wah Do Dem | Grown Ups | Avatar | Dog Pound | The Leopard
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This week's new film events
Hong Sang-soo | Brazilian Film Festival | London International Animation Festival | Portobello Film Festival
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This week's new DVD and Blu-ray
Four Lions | Cemetery Junction | City Of Life And Death | Hot Tub Time Machine | When You're Strange | Daughters Of Darkness | Sherlock
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Is Gyptian's Hold You the most unlikely hit of the year
A song so unremarkable that its owner didn't even finish it. How on earth has Gyptian scored the slowburn hit of the summer, asks Imran Ahmed
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This week's new live music
Neon Indian | Jónsi | MV & EE | Berliner Philharmoniker | Bliss | Jure Pukl's Slavic Soul
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This week's festival news
End Of The Road | Supersonic Festival | Brick Lane Music Festival | Jerseyfest | Weyfest | The Big Reunion | Constellations
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This week's new singles
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Internet picks of the week
The Look | Lamebook | Blog roll: Snaps | What we learned on the web this week
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Clubs picks of the week
High Tide Boat Party | Rock N Roll Circus | Knee Deep | More Crackers Please! | Creamfields
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Michael Holden's All ears
"It was only after I'd come out of the bathroom that I realised what I'd done. I thought, 'This is how it starts, you're becoming like Howard Hughes"
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This week's new theatre
Tom Crean: Antarctic Explorer | Little Shop Of Horrors | Sunshine On Leith | Scorched | A Voyage Around My Father | Mintfest 2010 | Kes | Tell Me On A Sunday
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This week's new exhibitions
Lawrence Leaman | Feral Trade Cafe | Zed Nelson | Nigel Grimmer | Darren Almond | Locky Morris | Ernst Caramelle | Sally Soames/Marcelle Hanselaar
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This week's new comedy
Phil Nichol: Welcome To Crazytown | Mike Wozniak And Henry Paker: The Golden Lizard | Greg Davies: Firing Cheeseballs At A Dog
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This week's new dance
Tom Dale/Tap Olé/Flawless | Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company: Quimeras | Shoes
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This week's new events
FOOK Charity Art Raffle | Chris Watson: Whispering In The Leaves | 5,000 Morris Dancers | Secret Cinema | Out & about
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Jim Shelley's Screen burn: The Bill
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One last thing... Salt-N-Pepa
Good news if you like to Push It, great if you're a randy whale: rap duo Salt-N-Pepa are in town. Rich Pelley goes old skool