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Over the Rainbow: Tales from an Unexpected Year by Alex James Particular Books, [pounds sterling]18.99, pp. 208 Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs by Miranda Sawyer John Murray, [...]

The Middlepause: On Turning 50 Marina Benjamin Scribe, 240pp. 14.99 £ Out of Time: Mid-Life, If You Still Think You're Young Miranda Sawyer Fourth Estate, 272pp, 12.99 £ Life Reimagined: [...]

A coffee-table book. The perfect present for the settled fortysomething, for £50 man with his ordered CD collection, for a once-ponytailed DJ, for parents who first met at a rave. [...]

As a freelance journalist, I spend far too much time ensconced in my festering paper mountain of an office, tapping away on subjects as vital to the world as the [...]

Just six weeks into the 00s, and the defining question of the decade so far is identity, and how we get it, learns Kester Rattenbury at the last of the [...]

The Hot Topic: A life-changing look at the Change of Life by Christa D'Souza Short Books, 8.99 £, pp. 204, ISBN 9781780722672 The Middlepause: on turning 50 by Marina Benjamin [...]

It's just not what you expect to hear on Radio 3 but I happened upon Music Matters on Saturday morning and after playing us a clip from the opening chorus [...]

A good sense of humour. The single most attractive quality a man can possess, apparently, though I don't think it's his one-liners that make Flavio Briatore so attractive to supermodels. [...]

It's a tricky time for Blur to be releasing a new LP, with all these damp-eyed Britpop retrospectives about. First there was Live Forever, the feature-length documentary on Cool Britannia [...]

Whether addressing the Hyde Park hordes at the anti-war demonstration, accepting yet another award (three Mobos, two Brits, last year's Panasonic Mercury Prize), or performing songs from her 450,000-selling debut [...]

The exhibition 'Shopping: a century of art and consumer culture' at Tate Liverpool is a giant. Spread over two floors and 17 rooms, it features bracing work by Duchamp, Christo, [...]

The Devil's Rejects (18) I had a choice of films to review this week: Dear Wendy or The Devil's Rejects. Dear Wendy is written by Lars von Trier. I find [...]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (PG) Roald Dahl and Tim Burton seem a match made, if not in heaven, in some blessed spot where that good place meets its polar [...]

Les clefs de bagnole (12) Sky Blue (15) Humour, like fashion, does not always travel well. An embroidered Moroccan kaftan looks great swishing around a souk in Marrakesh, but isn't [...]

DiG! (15) Another week, another documentary. DiG! is the end product of a seven-year, 1,500-hour-long project by the director Ondi Timoner based around two underground US bands, the Dandy Warhols [...]

Czech Dream (12A) With ever more mainstream films succumbing to star casting and 'what it says on the tin' storylines, documentaries have become the cleverest reason to spend an hour [...]

Spirituality Shopper (Channel 4) Sugar Rush (Channel 4) Michaela Newton-Wright is nice enough: a plain girl in a crap job. What Michaela does is this: she sits for hours in [...]

Joy of Madness (PG) Recently, real life has become really hot. TV drama is kiboshed by reality shows; West End plays speak the words of interviewees; documentaries are nominated for […]

Spider-Man 2 (PG) Around the World in 80 Days (PG) Spider-Man 2 is poised to be the most successful movie ever made. Its US opening pulled in $150m-plus in a […]

Shrek 2 (PG) Oh, I've been looking forward to this film for weeks now--156 weeks, actually, which is how long it's been since the original came out. The story of […]

The Ladykillers (15) This will raise your hackles: them darn Yanks getting their mucky mitts on a classic Ealing comedy. One of my absolute all-time favourites, in fact: The Ladykillers […]

The Cooler (15) This is a casino movie, which means it has sex, violence, neon, money, sinning and winning, boozing and losing. Great. It's also got the never-less-than-wonderful William H […]

The article features the English alternative rock band Blur. It members include singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James, and drummer Dave Rowntree. Blur competed with Oasis for the best single in August 1995. It is noted that the band transformed into genuine, generation-defining pop stars.

Discusses the feminine world created by author Marianne Martindale created in `The Female Disciplining Manual,' which advocates spanking and caning. Convictions of the empire founded by Lady Margaret Hall; Power structure and values emphasized in the empire; Concept of discipline.

Features the movie `Tank Girl.' Popularity of the comic book character; Synopsis of the movie; Background on director Rachel Talalay; Profile of cartoonists Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin; Soundtrack of the movie; Target audience; Failure of the movie. INSETS: Girls on top.;Roll out the barrel.;Post-Apocalypse Now..

The article offers information on the successful comeback of gigs of the rock band Blur in Glastonbury, England. The band's guitarist Graham Coxon says that they do not expect people to be overwhelmed to their music despite they stopped and got separated. Meanwhile, their singer Damon Albarn refers that the success of their comeback was due to the people who continually listen to their songs as well as their showing of their passion to the things they do, without having cynicism.

The article offers information on the music in 1980s. It states that the 1980 era can be observed in the haircut and vocals of La Roux, post-modern update of Madonna's dancefloor pop by Lady Gaga, and on the stylised clips of promo director Kinga Burza. Ladyhawke says that the music, children's toys, and computer games in the 1980s influenced her. Elly Jackson notes that the music of The Beatles, Prince, and Michael Jackson is the classy side of popular music in the 1980s.

Compares the attitudes and fashion trends among women of the eighties and the nineties. Mode of dressing; Outlook on sexuality; Personal characteristics; Women who were admired for their personality and achievements in life; Sense of humor; Overview on the lifestyle of the actress Patsy Kensit, showing transformation from the Eighties to the woman of the Nineties; Things women cares about in the Nineties.