The Independent on Sunday (London, England) back issues from March 2008:
Andrew Buchan
Mar 02, 2008; ... Could the blank gaze of this enigmatic actor be the saviour ofITV drama? Close-up If you're sick of twee period pieces and dramas about derangedmistresses, new thriller The Fixer might just restore your faith inITV. And the casting of Andrew Buchan, 27, looks to be ...
Stars go a Brit too far
Mar 02, 2008; ... Parties It was the year the Brit Awards went deliriously pop, anointingKate Nash over PJ Harvey, Mika over the Klaxons, and pretty littleKylie over everyone. Host Sharon Osbourne indulged in a spot of pot/kettle name-calling by castigating Vic Reeves for appearing inebriated ...
This man says we are all capable of evil Is he right?
Mar 02, 2008; ... First he devises an experiment that turns peace-loving studentsinto brutal thugs. Then he defends a soldier accused of abuse at AbuGhraib. Philip Zimbardo explains why his life is dedicated todarkness On 28 April 2004, Philip Zimbardo was in Washington for aconference. The TV was ...
Emily's family values
Mar 02, 2008 ... It's been a challenging time for the actress Emily Mortimer,daughter of 'Rumpole' author John. First she discovered a secrethalf-brother; then she moved 3,500 miles away from her close-knitclan; now she's starring in a film opposite a sex doll. She tellsDemetrios Matheou about her ...
New York's finest
Mar 02, 2008 ... Five new Brooklyn bands starting to make a noise the collection Vampire WeekendOne of Brooklyn's most sellable exports. Theireponymous debut album went top 20 in the US, aided by a batch ofpeppy songs inspired by punctuation and Congolese ...
Time to hitch up the trousers, Jamie?
Mar 02, 2008; ... Bites Jamie Oliver is to be a judge on a new US reality show, Oprah'sBig Give. The Oprah Winfrey-backed series begins tonight, pittingcontestants against each other in the art of giving. Call itPhilanthropy Idol - if you must. Oliver, who set up the Fifteen chain of ...
A revolution is brewing...
Mar 02, 2008; ... Trends The British tradition of social tea drinking is enjoyingsomething of a renaissance. The Tea Cake Tuesday Movement (www.myspace.com/ teacake tuesday) was started by a group of teens fromYork, who meet up for tea and intelligent chat; there are nowchapters all over the UK, ...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Mar 02, 2008; ... The author comes to Britain to defend 'the most-bought, least-read book' of our times Close-up You might think the writer of a book that topped Amazon's non-fiction chart throughout 2007 would be keen to get cracking on afollow-up. Not so the Lebanese-born author of The ...
We come in peace
Mar 02, 2008; ... Is planet rock ready for the 'Middle Eastern-psych-pop-snap-gospel' of Yeasayer? It had better be, because the Brooklyn quartetare shaping up to be world-beaters ArtsSpotlight Yeasayer creep up on you. In the current climate of "Wham, bam,buy this band!" publicity, it's all ...
Nicholas de Jongh sets himself up for a dramatic fall
Mar 02, 2008; ... Culture What possesses a drama critic to write a play? It is one thingfor a book reviewer to turn his hand to fiction - it happens all thetime - but in the theatrical world such role reversals have beenvirtually unheard of since George Bernard Shaw gave up his day jobat the ...
Why I love...
Mar 02, 2008 ... Name Felix Dennis Occupation Publisher, poet Passion Tree-hugging Without trees, humans would not have evolved. Certainly therewould be no form of human civilisation. No trees, no fire. No fire,no metal. Not to mention no lunch; in fact, you would be lunch forany predator with ...
John Malkovitch & Bella Freud
Mar 02, 2008 ... How we met John Malkovich 54 is a twice Oscar-nominated actor best known for his roles inDangerous Liaisons and Being John Malkovich. His production creditsinclude Juno, Ghost World and The Libertine. He lives in Boston,Massachusetts, with his partner and two ...
Luxe jeans go green
Mar 02, 2008; ... Fashion It is a dilemma every responsible fashionista faces: what to wearwith one's 100 per cent organic, ethically produced, fairly tradedcotton T-shirt? Why, a pair of 100 per cent organic, ethicallyproduced, fairly traded jeans, of course. And getting your hands ona handsome ...
Look at those cavemen go!
Mar 02, 2008; ... You won't learn much about Berlin, or indeed Bowie, but this bookilluminates a fascinating creative period Bowie in BerlinBy Thomas Jerome SeabrookJawbone Pounds 14.95 One of the great privileges of being an adolescent rock fan inthe 1970s was the travelling you got to do ....
Telling tales from the city
Mar 02, 2008; ... When Bidisha took herself off to Venice for a year, she thought aspell in the world's most civilised city would make writing herthird novel a breeze. But her stay in La Serenissima shocked herprofoundly So whatever did happen to Bidisha, the beautifully belligerent,fiercely ...
Burning Bright By Tracy Chevalier HarperCollins Pounds 7.99
Mar 02, 2008 ... Tracy Chevalier is best known for Girl with a Pearl Earring, anovel based on the Vermeer painting of the same name. This bookadopts a similar approach, intertwining the story of two childrenforming a friendship in London at the end of the 18th century withthe work of their neighbour, the ...
Venice Is a Fish: A cultural guide By Tiziano Scarpatrs Shaun Whiteside Serpent's Tail Pounds 8.99
Mar 02, 2008 ... Why is Venice a fish? "Just look at it on a map," writes TizianoScarpa. "It's like a vast sole stretched out against the deep."Other cultural histories talk about the birth of a city in terms ofmilitary or commercial success, but to Scarpa such determinism is"poppycock" - and perhaps ...
The Girl Who Was Going to Die By Glyn MaxwellJonathan Cape Pounds 12.99
Mar 02, 2008 ... At some point Glyn Maxwell's satire on the media and celebrityculture, told entirely in dialogue, must have seemed a good idea.That neither he nor his editor wised up to the sad truth of thesepoor pages constitutes a steely case of denial indeed. Susan Mantle is a rather useless ...
Hellfire and Herring: A childhood remembered By Christopher RushProfile Pounds 8.99
Mar 02, 2008 ... The little Scottish fishing village of St Monans once boastedfishermen who could "smell a shoal of herring in the breeze asaccurately as a gannet" and a hellfire preacher who thundered fromhis pulpit like a "dog-collared Viking". The undertaker, also theboat-builder, was a man with a ...
How to meet a prince
Mar 02, 2008; ... No One Belongs Here More Than You By Miranda JulyCanongatePounds 7.99 Miranda July has a disarming name that sits well with theartfully intense photo of her on the jacket. Normally these thingsaren't worth pointing out, but there's enough in this collection ofwhatever it is ...
Feeling hot, boys?
Mar 02, 2008; ... Think fashion, and you think of womenswear. Which makes it allthe more encouraging that the MAN shows are bringing mensweardesigners in from the cold A long-held bugbear of mine has been why London Fashion Week hasbeen so fixated on womenswear. Over the past six seasons, however, ...
Lie back and think of Canada
Mar 02, 2008; ... The women wear the trousers in this well-mannered, century-spanning family saga Remembering the Bones By Frances ItaniSceptre Pounds 17.99 Hale and independent Georgie Danforth has been invited to an 80thbirthday lunch at Buckingham Palace as one of 99 commonwealth ...
Bronte blues
Mar 02, 2008 ... What happened when du Maurier tackled Branwell Daphne By Justine PicardieBloomsbury Pounds 14.99 Justine Picardie's new novel, Daphne, is a rum concoction whichcomes wrapped in one of the most attractive jacket designs, based onan illustration by Alison Lang, that I've ...
Flexible friends
Mar 02, 2008 ... At the office/gallery of Michael Mohammed, if it's quirky andversatile, it's in As an art dealer, your space is never private. Clients andcolleagues often drop by and want to see what you have, so there isalways an element of "open house" and therefore "open life" - it canfeel ...
'I just want the mouth God gave me'
Mar 02, 2008; ... Courtney Love is not the only one regretting plastic surgery - somany patients are seeking reversals that the procedure has beengiven a name:'undo-plasty' what goes up must come down. Although the cliche is not generallyapplied to Victoria Beckham's assets, rumour has it that last ...
Little wonder
Mar 02, 2008 ... In her cramped back garden, Jane McMorland Hunter has brokenevery rule to create an Eden in miniature. Emma Townshend squeezesin ... Maybe she's been forewarned I can be bribed with cake, becausewhen I arrive at the Fulham home of the garden writer Jane McMorlandHunter there is a ...
Children should be taught with love and respect
Mar 02, 2008; ... How to be happy 'Should we smack our child? My husband says it didn't do him anyharm, but I am not so sure.' J. Step 1 Violence against children is always wrong. What is thereal lesson we teach our children by hitting them? We teach themthat violence is acceptable, ...
The Forager
Mar 02, 2008; ... Petersham's food sourcer on where to go for the best hand-madepasta The highest-quality pasta is made from durum wheat, pure springwater and pressed with traditional bronze dyes before slow dryingfor 40 to 60 hours at low temperatures. Valvona and Crolla, the famous Edinburgh ...
Play your carbs right
Mar 02, 2008 ... They may be everyday favourites for the rest of us, but potatoesand pasta were forbidden in her kitchen for years. Now Skye Gyngellhas finally fallen for the charms of these wholesome nutritionalstaples Over the four years that Petersham Nurseries has existed, I havealways been ...
CLASSICAL
Mar 02, 2008; ... Bach Matthew Passion - Dunedin Consort/Butt Linn John Butt's new recording of the 'Matthew Passion' with theDunedin Consort joins Paul McCreesh's 2003 recording with theGabrieli Consort as one of the finest available one-voice-per-partBach performances. Aside from Butt's use of ...
Annabel Karmel
Mar 02, 2008; ... Writer and children's nutrition guru, 47 I believe ... Credo Being a mother is the most important role in a woman's life. Iwas a musician but I felt strongly that I needed a career thatfitted around my children. Writing did. If you do something you love, you'll ...
JAZZ
Mar 02, 2008; ... Wollny/Kruse/ Schaeffer ACTWhat has the Viennese school ever done for jazz? Well, quite alot really, from Cecil Taylor's knuckle-edged atonality to coolschool serialism. This third album by the dangerously young Germantrio of pianist Michael Wollny, bassist Eva Kruse and drummer ...
ROCK
Mar 02, 2008; ... Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks Real Emotional Trash Domino "Of all my stoned digressions/Some have mutated into the truth" -in all the years he has been making records, has Stephen Malkmusever written a more revealing line than the opening words of hisfourth post-Pavement record? ...
AMERICANA
Mar 02, 2008; ... Various artists Theme Time Radio with Your Host Bob Dylan Ace There's no actual Bob Dylan but this canny double CD compilationof 50 songs aired on his celebrated XM Radio show is filled withwonders. The original structural themings (Radio, Guns, Food, etc)are all mixed up so what ...
ROCK
Mar 02, 2008; ... Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Mute Nick Cave's recent albums with the Bad Seeds appeared to find himin the grip of a mid-life crisis, during which he made the kind ofmusic that was fitting for a man of 50 (namely, contemplative pianomeditations). Since the ...
ROCK
Mar 02, 2008; ... The Gutter Twins Saturnalia Sub Pop Greg Dulli is best known for playing the homme fatal in theAfghan Whigs and the Twilight Singers. Mark Lanegan was the gravel-voiced leader of the tedious Screaming Trees. United as the GutterTwins, the two men take alternate turns on lead ...
A night on Bora Bora. If it's good enough for Nicole Kidman ...
Mar 02, 2008; ... HOTEL OF THE WEEK Nicole Kidman had just left when I arrived and the St RegisResort, Bora Bora, and the hotel was preparing for its next starguest, Pierce Brosnan. But the calibre of guests should come as no surprise: even by theextravagant standards of Bora Bora, the St ...
CLASSICAL
Mar 02, 2008; ... Glass Complete String Quartets - The Smith Quartet Signum The Smith Quartet's finely shaded double-disc survey of PhilipGlass' Quartets is an elegant rebuke to those of us who just don't"get" Glass. Quartet No 1 (1966) marked the young composer'srejection of the Parisian avant ...
This week's hot tips for travellers
Mar 02, 2008 ... The deal There's still time to bag a bargain in the British Airways sale(ba.com), which ends at midnight on Tuesday. Get a business-classflight to one of five Far East cities for 1,999 return, included areBeijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo and Singapore The ...
FOLK
Mar 02, 2008; ... Kathryn Williams & Neill MacColl Two Caw RecordsWhen When the Mercury-nominated Williams joins forces with EwanMacColl and Peggy Seeger's son Neill, you'd expect folk sparks tofly. And, in a gentle and understated way, they do. Eventually.Because, unusually, 'Two' is a completely ...
Dark chocolate cake
Mar 02, 2008 ... This cake is probably the easiest dessert in the world to make;it simply requires good-quality chocolate. It is exceptionally darkand rich - with no added sugar. The smallest slice is all you need. 225g/71/2oz dark chocolate 250ml/8fl oz double cream 2tbsp cocoa ...
Get the sinister performer look
Mar 02, 2008 ... Dark grey trousers 70, by French Connection, tel: 0844 557 3285 Red vintage Dr Martens boots ...
Torn between two cultures
Mar 02, 2008; ... This poetic and magical novel describes a transitional period inEquatorial Guinea's history Shadows of Your Black Memory By Donato Ndongotrs MichaelUgarteSwan Isle Press Pounds 14.50 This accomplished novel describes the love of somethingmercilessly elusive: a magical ...
Smell as good as you look with these manly scents
Mar 02, 2008; ... Beauty spot 1. Golden deliciousTom Ford for Men, 47 per 100ml, tel: 0870 0342566 A modern classic in the making 2. Fruity fragranceFou d'absinthe, 70 per 100ml, by L'ArtisanParfumeur, tel: 020 7221 2008 Sharp ...
Sausages 'n' Crash
Mar 02, 2008; ... JG Ballard unveils what will probably be his last book Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton By JG Ballard4thEstate Pounds 14.99 BooksReview JG Ballard has flirted with autobiography before. Empire of theSun, still his most famous novel, and The Kindness of ...
Barrington de la Roche & Inesa Vaiciute
Mar 02, 2008; ... Occupation Artists Age 63 & 25 Personal style Twin chic My style James Sherwood As we speak, you're on a film set playing asinister fairground worker. Your look has led you to be cast inmusic videos, movies and theatre but the pair of you are most famousfor your performance ...
'I will not stop bullying you'
Mar 02, 2008; ... Novels about teenagers have changed since Adrian Mole's day. Meetprecocious, obnoxious, 14-year-old Oliver ... Submarine By Joe DunthorneHamish Hamilton Pounds 16.99 It was a terrible fact of my teenage years that the closest thatcontemporary fiction came to a truthful ...
Frock on
Mar 02, 2008; ... Put the fun back into dressing up hot list Hip to be square Checked dress, 14, by Matalan, tel: 0845 330 3330 Dressed to frillLacy dress, 131, by Milly NY, www.net-a-porter.com Float your boatNautical dress, 290, by Marc by ...
Essentials
Mar 02, 2008; ... BY OLIVIA MORRIS, SHOE DESIGNER My mother gave me my eye for fashion; I remember her buying adress from John Galliano's very first collection when I was 15.Myfail-safe outfit is a vintage dress with a pair of heels. Still, aboutique in Notting Hill, has a great selection of ...
Jon Hamm
Mar 02, 2008; ... Mad Men Sunday 10pm BBC4 Mad Men takes you back to the infancy of American consumerism, toa 1960s Madison Avenue advertising firm, where men were men,secretaries were sexy and everyone smoked like it was going out offashion. Fizzing with smart dialogue and smarter suits, the ...
DANCE
Mar 02, 2008; ... Benga Diary of an Afro Warrior TEMPA TempaHe's just 21, but Beni Adejumo has been making dubsteprecords since the mutant grime/dub/breakbeat genre first emergedfive years ago, and anticipation for his first LP has been buildingfor a while. With daytime radio play for its ...
Switched to another phone firm - and you had no idea
Mar 02, 2008; ... HOME LANDLINES It can happen to any of us and the regulatorreceives 600 complaints a month. Sue Hayward sees how to avoidfalling foul of the 'slammers' Imagine opening your post to discover you've switched telephoneprovider without knowing anything about it. That's just what ...
BANKING MP demands inquiry after Egg shows card customers the door
Mar 02, 2008 ... Egg may be investigated by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) overits decision last month to terminate the contracts of 161,000 creditcard customers. Labour MP Nigel Griffiths, a former consumer affairs minister,has written to the OFT asking it to step in. He says he has ...
DVD
Mar 02, 2008; ... In the Shadow of the Moon Retail & Rental CHANNEL 4 Channel 4 This fascinating documentary tells the story of theApollo moon missions in the words of the men onboard the rockets.All of the surviving astronauts share their stories - apart from thereclusive Neil Armstrong - and ...
How is house equity divided when unmarried couples split?
Mar 02, 2008; ... I would like to buy my ex-partner out of my house with the helpof a friend, who I am hoping will be able to take over that share ofthe mortgage. The house was bought for 264,000. My ex-partner paid a 10 percent deposit, so our mortgage is 238,000. Given that the house hasnow been ...
WORLD
Mar 02, 2008; ... DJ Dolores 1 Real Crammed Discs How many Brazilian producers reference Marx, Engels, Sartre andLou Reed in their sleeve notes? On his third album, the DJ otherwiseknown as Helder Aragao de Melo continues to approach his craft ofconstructing dance tracks with the focus and precision ...
FOLK
Mar 02, 2008; ... Punch Brothers Punch NonesuchWe listen to virtuosos slightly differently. Can't behelped, we just do. So what you make of 'Punch' will depend to largedegree on your reaction to Chris Thile's playing. He's a mandolinistand a jaw-dropping one - he almost redefines what you ...
Water metering: the trickle-down effect
Mar 02, 2008; ... UTILITY BILLS With charges rising, Esther Shaw asks if more of uswould benefit from a pay-as-you-use approach Household budgets are set to be stretched even further when waterbills go up at the beginning of April - prompting many more peopleto consider installing water meters to ...
BUY-TO-LET Landlords build their empires as rental market prospers
Mar 02, 2008 ... Investors are rushing to get a piece of the buy-to-let action asthe static housing market leads to a rise in the number of peoplerenting. Mortgage lending for buy-to-let deals totalled 24.1bn in thesecond half of 2007, up from 21.2bn in the first half and 20.8bn inthe second half ...
Turkey and beyond: rewards of buying in the risks and distant lands
Mar 02, 2008; ... PROPERTY Laura Howard seeks out the new hotspots, from Europe'ssouthern borders to Cape Verde and even Thailand Our property prices may be stagnating but for Britons looking toturn bricks and mortar into profits, there is hope on the horizon -the far horizon. Record numbers ...
INVESTMENT New fund will adopt boardroom brainstorming strategy
Mar 02, 2008 ... Investors may soon be able to tap into the know-how of FTSEcompany directors, following the launch of an investment trust - atype of fund that can be placed in an ISA - reflecting the thinkingof blue-chip bosses. The theory is that directors are better informed than the ...
Where is the advice for those who need it most but can afford it least?
Mar 02, 2008; ... Financial advice is a subject that hardly sets the pulse racing.But with family finances pushed to breaking point, excessivepersonal debt and a paltry savings level, access to free or low-cost good quality advice has never been more crucial. Sadly, the UKfinancial advice industry isn't ...
BORROWING It's official: the age of the cut-price loan is over, says FSA chief
Mar 02, 2008 ... Cheap borrowing is a thing of the past, the Financial ServicesAuthority (FSA) has said. Speaking last week, Hector Sants, the City regulator's chiefexecutive, said the sub-prime crisis had changed attitudes tolending. UK banks, he added, would now be looking to form ...
Out of the darkness, into the light
Mar 02, 2008; ... WALK OF THE MONTH Derbyshire's sharply contrasting landscapes meet in the Hope andEdale valleys. Mark Rowe reports The Peak District's two distinctive halves - the dark, northerngritstone and the southern, white, limestone - come together aroundthe Hope and Edale valleys ....
Win a set of coastal maps
Mar 02, 2008 ... COMPETITION Ordnance Survey is eager to inspire you to explore all that ismagnificent about Britain's great outdoors. The mapping agency isoffering a prize of a copy of 'Coast: the Walks' ...