The Independent on Sunday (London, England) back issues from August 2008:
Knickers off stage
Aug 03, 2008; ... Books Review Biography Maynard Keynes's eccentric Russian wifewowed audiences and appalled Virginia The Bloomsbury Ballerina ByJudith Mackrell Weidenfeld Pounds 25 Lydia Lopokova could hardly dance the part of the soubrette inLes Femmes de bonne humeur because, she confessed: "I ...
My unborn sister won't shut up
Aug 03, 2008; ... Books Review Fiction Stream-of-consciousness fiction makes areturn Salvage By Jane F KotapishFaber Pounds 12.99 In publishing's brave new world, where the Richard & Judy BookClub is the arbiter of taste and supermarkets stock the Man BookerPrize shortlist, we've witnessed the ...
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, read by Juliet Stevenson (Naxos 6CDs: 6 1/2hours Pounds 19.99)
Aug 03, 2008; ... Books Review Audiobook of the week In summer in the Hebrides, the slanting rays of the setting sunlight up the attic bedrooms of a big old house on Skye, revealing"bats, flannels, straw hats, inkpots, paint pots, beetles and theskulls of small birds". The house gathers and enfolds ...
Anyone for 'voleau vents'?
Aug 03, 2008; ... Books Review Fiction A guerrilla gastronome makes another bigsplash Rancid Pansies By James Hamilton-Paterson Faber Pounds 12.99 Rancid Pansies opens with an eye-watering set piece of high comicfarce that caused me to creep out of bed and seek medication lest Iwake the entire ...
Books Review Crime fiction
Aug 03, 2008; ... Say Goodbye by Lisa GardnerOrion 12.99 Young prostitutes are going missing in Sandy Springs, Atlanta,and no one but FBI field officer Kimberly Quincy seems to care.Quincy is heavily pregnant and has a basket full of her ownproblems, but is soon drawn into a search for a serial ...
Grampire dawn
Aug 03, 2008; ... Books Review Music This iconic 1960s bad boy needs rescuingfrompossessive, necrophiliac fans Twenty Thousand Roads: The ballad ofGram Parsons By David N Meyer Bloomsbury Pounds 25 Although Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison were farmore famous when they died, Gram Parsons ...
Cheap as chips
Aug 03, 2008; ... What does our financial future have to do with the price of fish?Everything, according to this Hastings boozer I just paid six quid (sick squid!) for a two-course lunch ofphenomenally fresh fish - a couple of little dabs to start, a wholeplaice to follow, with salad and boiled ...
A lawn unto themselves
Aug 03, 2008 ... The green sward of Inner Temple is to host its first flower showin 90 years. Emma Townshend rules in favour If all the big flower events this summer have left you with asense of ennui, I've got good news: there's a one-off special comingup that looks to be a veritable jewel box of ...
Note to self: get a grip!
Aug 03, 2008; ... Sasha Cagen has spent the past decade collecting other people'sto-do lists - she reveals why the simplest form of therapy may beindex-linked Other people's to-do lists can be endlessly fascinating - butpinpointing exactly why isn't always easy, admits Sasha Cagen, anAmerican ...
Flame carriers Big day for the little emperor
Aug 03, 2008; ... Four more classical stars from China Virtuoso pianist or 'flashy'showman? On Friday, millions of people can decide for themselves asLang Lang performs at the Olympic opening ceremony Love him - or loathe him? I actually quite like Lang Lang, who,as China's pre-eminent classical ...
Join the fennel club
Aug 03, 2008; ... True fans of this versatile bulb love it sliced up raw in salad.But if you want to sweeten that aniseed hit, it roasts perfectlywith meat or fish Deliciously aniseedy in flavour, with a clean, clear crunch,fennel is one of my very favourite vegetables. It grows wild inabundance ...
On show at the Temple
Aug 03, 2008 ... Golden oldies Pennard Plants will be showing an eclectic range of vegetablevarieties. Get the look with its 2,000-year-old Salad burnett(right) or 17th-century rampion (seeds from 1 a packet).www.pennardplants.com HW Hyde specialises in lily hybrids; for the old-fashioned ...
Ahir Shah
Aug 03, 2008; ... Close-up School's out for the 17-year-old - just in time for aspot of stand-up at Edinburgh"Ladies and gentlemen," says Ahir Shah, stepping on stage. "Iknow some of you will be thinking, 'A-ha, I was wondering what he'dgot up to since The Jungle Book ...' Although he is the ...
Bill Drummond Writer, musician, artist and co-founder of the KLF and the K Foundation, 55
Aug 03, 2008; ... Credo I believe ... Recorded music is a creative dead-end, fit only for the makers ofadvertising jingles, ringtones and movie soundtracks. Its sheerubiquity will inspire music-makers to explore different ways ofcreating music, away from something that can be captured on a CD ...
A slice of Toast
Aug 03, 2008; ... Eastern European fairy-tales, locations to die for and acatalogue cosy enough to live in - Lisa Markwell reveals whyeveryone wants a piece of this hot fashion brand Fans of the cult mail-order clothes company Toast greet each newcollection's catalogue with a piquant mix of desire ...
Deep breath... it's canned oxygen
Aug 03, 2008; ... Your weekly health and beauty check-up Under the microscope The Big Ox personal flavoured oxygen canister in Polar Rush (6for 3.5g, www.thebigox.com; also available fromwww.shop.harveynichols.com) In theory The trend for oxygen bars originated in the 1990s, likeall ...
What's Going On? By Mark SteelSimon and Schuster Pounds 12.99 ***
Aug 03, 2008; ... A memoir of a mid-life crisis, What's Going On? tells the storyof the disintegration of two central relationships in Mark Steel'slife: with the mother of his three children and with the SocialistWorkers Party. Steel steers a finely judged course between the maudlin and ...
Angels and wolves
Aug 03, 2008; ... A novel in verse - about werewolves. Hmm. It's a great elevatorpitch, but would anyone actually want to read it? Well, they oughtto. The verse is free verse of the loosest kind, often recognisableas verse only by the typography, but the compression of language,the absence of all those ...
The Missing Person's Guide to Love By Susanna JonesPicador Pounds 7.99 ****
Aug 03, 2008; ... Susanna Jones writes in a plain, pellucid style, and uses it totell a dark story. Isabel, a woman in her 30s who lives in Istanbulwith her Turkish husband and daughter, returns to the town where shegrew up for the funeral of an old friend, Owen. She and Owen didtime for an arson attack ...
Wiffle Lever to Full! By Bob FischerHodder Pounds 12.99 **
Aug 03, 2008; ... Bob Fischer grew up in the 1980s, a fan of Doctor Who and StarWars and Blake's 7. Now arrived at man's estate, he embarks on amission to visit all the sci-fi conventions he can, driving toStockton, Swindon, York, Cardiff, Nottingham and Peterborough tomeet Imperial Stormtroopers, Luke ...
Mayhem and mystery - I'll have a half
Aug 03, 2008; ... Page Turner It's one of the rare hot, sunny days of the summer and I'm off ona literary pub crawl to celebrate Christopher Fowler's new Bryant &May crime novel, The Victoria Vanishes (Doubleday 14.99). All theplaces we're going to visit form part of Arthur Bryant'sinvestigation ...
Uptown boy
Aug 03, 2008; ... Where's the best place to hang out with the ambitious, cleverstar of 'Gossip Girl', US television's hottest show? Definitely nota New York cafe packed with teenage girls. Guy Adams meets an all-American heart-throb Cover story Sitting down to lunch with Chace Crawford is enough to ...
I'm with the band
Aug 03, 2008; ... Fashion Any savvy fashion label knows that offering to equip customersfor every aspect of their lifestyle is a commercial no-brainer,hence the existence of such improbable items as Roberto Cavalli wineand Chanel rugby balls. For younger, cooler brands, such money-spinners ...
Name Lucy Porter Occupation Comedian Passion Charity tat
Aug 03, 2008 ... Why I love ... I visit charity shops most days. It's a cheap way to satisfy myconsumer urges. My latest find is a silver frame engraved "Whiskey".It frames a slightly blurry photo of a ginger cat sitting on aradiator. I imagine the lady who loved that cat is now at peace, ...
The heat is on at posh Glasto
Aug 03, 2008; ... Parties "You're going to get me into trouble," said Natalie Imbruglia toSam Branson as the model and Virgin heir sidled up to put his armaround her, to the delight of hordes of snappers - and notaltogether noticeably distressing the petite singer. Lady Victoria Hervey could ...
Flip chart
Aug 03, 2008; ... Who needs hot air and a basket? Cluster balloonists just grab asmany helium balloons as they can and float away. With the UK'sleading "balloonatic" declaring himself available ...
Play horribly please, children
Aug 03, 2008; ... Culture "On Wednesday night a wonder happened," wrote the theatre criticKenneth Tynan (pictured) in 1956. "The West End theatre justifiedits existence." He was referring to a production of The Chalk Garden, EdithBagnold's comedy about an eccentric group of middle-aged women ...
Sun. 03
Aug 03, 2008 ... Choice Film: Miss Potter 8PM BBC1 Renee Zellweger plays the English author and illustrator BeatrixPotter in this sweet, old-fashioned biopic. As the creator of PeterRabbit, Samuel Whiskers et al struggles to find someone willing topublish her work, she unexpectedly ...
CONCISE CROSSWORD No. 964
Aug 03, 2008 ... SD FOR 18Ac By Mass The entries marked "?" have something incommon suggested by the unclued answer(s) forming the puzzle's title Across 1 ? (4) 3 Eats (8) 9 ? (5) 10 Apprentice (7) 11 Japanese currency unit (3) 13 ? (5,4) 14 Set ...
Tue. 05
Aug 03, 2008 ... Choice The Secret Millionaire 9PM CHANNEL 4 Return of the series that covertly places one rich individualamong those less fortunate. This week, the 30-year-old millionaireJames Benamor returns to Moss Side in Manchester, where he spent hisyouth involved in drugs and ...
Wed. 06
Aug 03, 2008 ... Choice Lost Land of the Jaguar 8PM BBC1 An international team of explorers and scientists examine theflora and fauna of the Guyanan jungle, one of the world's lastunspoilt forests. In tonight's episode, they travel deeper into thejungle and deal with scorpions and ...
Fri. 08
Aug 03, 2008 ... Choice Film: Chicken Run 8.30PM BBC3 Smash-hit animation following the adventures of a coop ofchickens trying to escape the clutches of an evil farmer's wife. Thecomedy spoofs the PoW-camp genre, especially The Great Escape, butturns quite dark when the farm becomes ...
Sat. 09
Aug 03, 2008 ... Choice The Quintessential Peggy Lee 8PM SKY ARTS Her voice may have been wavering when this 1984 concert wasrecorded in Atlantic City, but this is Peggy Lee at her mostheartfelt. Teaming up with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra toperform some exceptional classics, ...
The Forager
Aug 03, 2008; ... Petershams food sourcer reveals where to find everything fennel-related Seeds The Real Seed Catalogue (www. realseed.co.uk) sellsColossal fennel and Mantovano spring-sowable fennel. Spice La Fromagerie (www.lafromagerie. co.uk) sells the distinct,Monti Sibillini fennel ...
Mon. 04
Aug 03, 2008 ... Choice The Genius of Charles Darwin 8pm channel 4 New series that celebrates the life and work of Charles Darwin.The outspoken scientist Richard Dawkins presents a guide to thegreat man on the 150th anniversary of the release of On the Originof Species, explaining ...
FINANCIAL CRIME Mortgages in the spotlight as fraud cases soar by 50 per cent
Aug 03, 2008 ... British business is under attack from fraudsters as never before,according to the accountancy firm KPMG. In the first half of 2008, the value of fraud cases jumped by 50per cent to 630m. This may just be the tip of the iceberg, however,as KPMG's figures reflect only those crimes ...
The state pension kiss of life is followed by the kiss of death
Aug 03, 2008; ... The state pension turned 100 last week. When introduced by DavidLloyd George, the benefit of five shillings a week was availableonly to people over 70. In time, though, the age of entitlement felland the state pension grew into the cornerstone of many Britons'retirement. But in ...
THE NUMBER House prices falling through the floor
Aug 03, 2008 ... Pounds 15,000 A property crash at least as severe as that of the early 1990s isplaying itself out. According to the latest Nationwide buildingsociety house-price survey, values have dropped by 8.1 per cent inthe past year and the rate of decrease is quickening up rather ...
SAVINGS Customers flock to security of building societies
Aug 03, 2008 ... Building societies are counting the cash as savers flock to themfor refuge from the credit crunch. In the first half of 2008, nearly 6.3bn of customer money flowedinto savings accounts at the UK's 59 building societies. Thiscompares with just 3.8bn for the same period last year - ...
REGULATION Friendly society fined for PPI sales practices
Aug 03, 2008 ... The banking arm of Liverpool Victoria friendly society has beenfined 840,000 by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) over the wayin which it sold payment protection insurance (PPI). Chief among the failings exposed by the City regulator was theroutine practice by Liverpool ...
If the holiday club rep drops by your sun-kissed resort, be on your guard
Aug 03, 2008; ... PROPERTY Esther Shaw on how to avoid the pitfalls and salesspiels if you're tempted by a timeshare-style offerIf, while relaxing in the sun at your resort this summer, you'reapproached by someone with a flashing smile offering you a "winningscratch card" or a free holiday, then ...
ROCK
Aug 03, 2008; ... Conor Oberst Conor Oberst WICHITA Conor Oberst's decision to release an album under his birth nameis at first baffling. After all, he is Bright Eyes. But it soonmakes sense. For much of 'Conor Oberst' - up to the seventh track,"Eagle on a Pole", in fact - his familiar heartbroken ...
SOUL
Aug 03, 2008; ... Irma Thomas Simply Grand DECCA/ROUNDER The title is a clue to the album's contents twice over. For one,'Simply Grand' is an album by a grande dame of New Orleans R&Bbacked by piano and not much else. For two, it is grand - dignifiedswinging, simple and soulful music, strengthened ...
ROCK
Aug 03, 2008; ... Port O'Brien All We Could Do Was Sing CITY SLANG Take the churchy vibe of Fleet Foxes, add some Arcade Fire-stylesingalongs, throw in an isolationist backstory to rival Bon Iver(singer Van Pierszalowski spends summers working on his father'sfishing boat in Alaska) and you pretty ...
JAZZ
Aug 03, 2008; ... Enrico Rava & Electric Five Italian Ballads VENUS Florid-sounding trumpeter Rava playing Nino Rota, Puccini andgloopy Italian ballads in a band with Richard Galliano on accordionsounds too good to be true. Almost. The Electric Five includes tworather Bill Frisell-fixated ...
DANCE
Aug 03, 2008; ... UNKLE End Titles: Stories for Film SURRENDER ALL This is the latest excuse for James Lavelle and his posh chums(eg Old Etonian and chocolate heir Joel Cadbury) and American pals(eg Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme) to mess about withexpensive gear making high-concept, designer ...
WORLD
Aug 03, 2008; ... Kasai Allstars In the 7th Moon ... CRAMMED DISCS Although this Congolese collective of some 25 musicians share thesame love of distortion as their label mates Konono No. 1, they'remore interested in space and nuance than creating a wall of sound.This album is a joyous whirlwind of ...
ROCK
Aug 03, 2008; ... Jakob Dylan Seeing Things COLUMBIA Behavioural geneticists should keep a special file with JakobDylan's name on it. On the nature side, he's in his father'sbusiness and knows how to rock the hat-and-shades look. On thenurture side, his songs are less about changing the times and ...
CLASSICAL
Aug 03, 2008; ... Sibelius Kullervo - Helsinki Philharmonic/Segerstam ONDINE Thrilling from its rising-sap opening to its numb threnodicclose, Leif Segerstam's recording of Sibelius's great symphonic poem"Kullervo" is naturalistic and vital. The bright, resinous sound ofthe Helsinki Philharmonic ...
DVD
Aug 03, 2008; ... 27 Dresses Retail & Rental 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT 27 Dresses' is like a compilation of unfunny clips from 'TheWedding Planner', 'My Best Friend's Wedding' and every other rom-com with "wedding" in the title. The idea is that Katherine Heiglhas been appointed as her ...
The truth is out there - pity Mulder and Scully can't find it
Aug 03, 2008; ... Film 2 The X-Files: I Want to Believe Chris Carter 105 MINS, 15The Love Guru Marco Schnabel 87 MINS, 12A Ten years after the last X-Files film, and six years after theend of the hit TV series, David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson areback as FBI special agents Mulder and Scully, the ...
ALSO SHOWING
Aug 03, 2008; ... Married Life (90 mins, PG) Noir homage, set in 1949, starring Chris Cooper as a businessmanwho wants to leave his wife, Patricia Clarkson, for a younger woman,Rachel McAdams. In a nice upending of the formula, his wife isinterested only in sex, while it's the girlfriend who offers ...
Midnight in the garden of good and evil
Aug 03, 2008; ... It was an afterthought for Tchaikovsky, but his 'Iolanta' hasbeen reworked as a gripping sexual psychodrama Classical IolantaOpera Holland Park LONDON La Gioconda Opera Holland Park LONDON BBCProms (1,6 &14) Royal Albert Hall/ Cadogan Hall LONDON Commissioned as a companion piece ...
Smooth operator
Aug 03, 2008; ... Yet again this week I found myself suspecting I might havelesbian tendencies, though this time it had nothing to do with thetingling feeling I sometimes get when I see Jodie Foster in herpants. I had been driving around in the new Subaru Forester andhappened to tell a lesbian friend of ...
Outstanding work in progress
Aug 03, 2008; ... Purists may fume, but this DIY version of 'The Idiot' is a breath-taking construction Theatre ... some trace of her NT CottesloeLONDON The Wizard of Oz Royal Festival Hall LONDON Her Naked Skin NTOlivier LONDON Under the Blue Sky Duke of York's Theatre LONDON The director Katie ...
Once more, girls, this time with a bit of sauce
Aug 03, 2008; ... The National Ballet of China are elegant to a fault - if onlyWang Qimin and her corps would throw caution to the wind Dance SwanLake Royal Opera House LONDON Mikhailovsky Ballet Coliseum LONDON It should be the perfect vehicle for the National Ballet ofChina. After all, in so many ...
Investors cast as the fall guys in with-profit meltdown: the sequel
Aug 03, 2008; ... FUNDS They're hardly over the last slump and bonuses are beingcut again, writes Julian Knight Millions of Britons holding with-profits investments have beenwarned that difficult times lie ahead, with the potential forswingeing cuts to bonus payouts as UK and worldwide stock ...
Diesel goes the extra mile for father who needs to keep his boy on track
Aug 03, 2008; ... Here is the ongoing debate about whether it is really worthswitching from petrol top to diesel, despite the widening gap in theprice between the two fuels. Glass's Guide, who produce used vehicleprice information, have recently calculated that it takes sevenyears to pay for the ...
Beijing doesn't like to give the world's press an inch, let alone go the extra mile
Aug 03, 2008; ... The Chinese government wanted the Olympics to be a window for theworld. Instead it has persisted in keeping the curtains drawn andsoured its own event, writes Isabel Hilton Nearly two years ago, at a dinner given for the boss of amultinational that is also a sponsor of the Beijing ...
The Feral Beast
Aug 03, 2008 ... Moir's not thinking what her proprietor's thinking After she defected from 'The Telegraph', the first column by JanMoir, right, for the 'Daily Mail' appeared on Friday under the line"Are you thinking what she's thinking?" Unluckily for Jan,proprietor Lord Rothermere may not be on ...
So who says this crisis won't run to a second birthday?
Aug 03, 2008; ... The best hope for many is that recession will curb inflation andlower interest rates will curb recession, writes Richard Northedge 'Life changed on 9 August," says Northern Rock's former chiefexecutive, Adam Applegarth, reflecting on the day last summer whenhis life and his bank ...
If you think things look bad on the ground, it's even worse in the sky
Aug 03, 2008 ... Airlines are in crisis. Expect a merger frenzy and the end ofcheap flights Little over a month ago, a respected and very senior privateequity boss warned me that the airline industry was destined formeltdown. He said past problems in the sector would pale ...
The pent-up deals in the City pipeline
Aug 03, 2008; ... It's been carnage for mergers and flotations but some still havea pulse. Mark Leftly on the big-money transactions awaiting a kindermarket Deals are the lifeblood of the City. Since August last year,though, that flow has been cauterised, with takeovers, mergers andflotations ...
Coast
Aug 03, 2008 ... SECRET BRITAIN Britain has thousands of kilometres of coast, andonly a fraction is industrialised, urbanised or candy-flossed. Therest - virtually all accessible on foot - awaits your discovery.Here are 20 less obvious gems. For guidance to thousands more, seebelow 1 Rathlin ...
Gardens
Aug 03, 2008 ... SECRET BRITAIN There are probably more than 5,500 gardens open tothe public. Many in the National Garden Scheme are too small orlocalised to be included here. What follows is a taste of what canbe found1 Sizergh Castle Cumbria The paths crossing the 1,600-acre ...