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The Guardian: G2

Wednesday 1 September 2010

Comment & features p2

Prophetic and poetic: in praise of heavy metal

Michael Hann on why the Church Times is right to laud Iron Maiden et al
How to survive as a (very) tall teenage girl

What Malia Obama can expect – by some girls who know

Comment & features p3

Obituaries – women's final frontier

Why do women merit far fewer newspaper obits than men, wonders Bibi van der Zee
Pass notes No 2,839: the Labour leadership contest

Labour's leadership contest: the transferable eliminating ballot explained (or not)
The new kind of sex party sweeping the US

Expectant couples are holding celebrations at which they reveal the sex of their baby. Yuk! says Leo Hickman

Comment & features p4

Crisps: a very British habit

They're fried in fat and smothered in salt, so why do we have an unhealthy obsession with potato crisps?

Comment & features p8

G2 Kids No 33: Play traditional games and solve our back-to-school wordsearch

Interactive:
Marbles, paper planes and cup and ball: who needs an Xbox anyway? Plus more of our puzzles, jokes and a book review

Comment & features p9

How great is the automated lacing system?

Hadley Freeman: Ask me to choose my favourite US TV advertising invention? You can't get more stupid than the automated lacing system

Comment & features p10

Corinne Day: raw genius

Corinne Day's photographs of a young Kate Moss caused a huge outcry – then became the defining fashion images of the 90s

Comment & features p12

Nadine Gordimer goes back into battle

Twenty years after helping defeat apartheid, the eminent writer is fighting government plans to muzzle South Africa's media, says Stephen Moss

Comment & features p13

Hideously diverse Britain: Talking about racism in Lewes

When one journalist decided to be honest about cultural difficulties in his Sussex hometown, he didn't expect to be called a racist

Comment & features p15

Fashion designers need to be entrepreneurs

These days it's not enough just being a talented designer. You have to be an entrepreneur too, says Elle magazine's Lorraine Candy, while two leading figures offer their advice for budding young hopefuls

Comment & features p16

The Launch Pad winners 2010

Gallery (6 pictures):
Elle magazine and the British Fashion Council have selected six young British fashion designers with real potential

Arts p17

Notes and queries

When red lights might not mean stop; What makes classical music classical music? Why Ludo and Monopoly players are good sports

Arts p19

Tony Kushner: 'It's a crazy time'

Angels in America, his epic play about the US and Aids, was a cultural phenomenon. As his latest work arrives in Britain, Tony Kushner talks to Charles Laurence about Iraq, Obama – and life with his husband

Arts p22

McFly go DIY

Would you like these boys to call you up? McFly tell Will Dean how they took back control of their music – and are giving fans unprecedented access to their lives

TV and radio in G2 p24

Radio review: Saving Species

We learned that swifts – "feathery tearaways, little bits of Africa" – are dwindling in number – with a third of the birds lost in the UK in the past 20 years, writes Elisabeth Mahoney

TV and radio in G2 p25

TV review: The Bill, The Deep and Natureshock: Killer Squid Invasion

The Bill should have one more investigation – into their own murder, by axe, from above, writes Sam Wollaston

TV and radio in G2 p26

Tonight's TV highlights

Vintage TV Launches | The Tony Blair Interview With Andrew Marr | Waterloo Road | First Love | Alex Higgins: The People's Champion | Burn Notice

TV and radio in G2 p27

Radio head: blasts from the past

Dave Lee Travis and friends are still out there, discovers Elisabeth Mahoney

Puzzles and cartoon p28

Sudoku 1,655 medium

Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9

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