The Independent on Sunday (London, England) back issues from March 2009:
There's a new villain in town
Mar 01, 2009; ... Culture According to the Metropolitan Police, we should brace ourselvesfor a summer of rage as middle-class victims of the credit crunchparticipate in violent demonstrations against financialinstitutions. Superintendent David Hartshorn, head of the Metspublic order branch, says ...
Why I love...
Mar 01, 2009; ... Name Miranda Hart Occupation Comedian/actor Passion Picking upthreads I got into sewing tapestry in my twenties, which is about 40years too early. The only thing less cool is crochet. But I like theway it transports me to another era. Its cathartic: each stitch is aworry ...
Hatters go mad at V&A
Mar 01, 2009; ... Parties Forget the outfits hats trumped haute couture at last MondaysV&A bash celebrating milliner extraordinaire Stephen Joness headgearexhibition. Guests milled around the bar, some adorned with novel home-madecreations including two matching cardboard Spanish sailboats ...
Now we all want a Slumdog's dinner
Mar 01, 2009; ... Bites It seems we cant get enough of India right now. In the same weekthat Slumdog Millionaire swept the board at this years Oscars, a newwave of eateries are opening their doors. First up is DockmastersHouse in Canary Wharf (pictured). Situated in a listed Georgianbuilding, it ...
Kanye see him yet?
Mar 01, 2009; ... Fashion Killing time while waiting for your fifth fashion show of the dayto begin (late) can be tedious. Lucky, then, that those with apacked schedule in London this week were able to indulge in a novelpastime. A real-life variation on the childrens classic WheresWally?, the aim ...
ONE STEP BEYOND
Mar 01, 2009; ... Former 'Clothes Show' presenter Caryn Franklin wore someoutrageous outfits back in the 1980s. So how did she feel aboutmodelling some of today's revival styles? While I cant claim Madonna and I were close in the 1980s, adecade I entered aged 21, I did lend her my Boy mohair jumper ...
A KICK UP THE 80S
Mar 01, 2009; ... The economy is in meltdown, the Tories are resurgent andjumpsuits and synth-pop are the height of fashion. Why doeseverything feel so 1980s all of a sudden? Andy McSmith introducesour special issueIt was the best of decades, it was the worst of decades, when theworld as ...
SKA WARS
Mar 01, 2009; ... He created the band whose hits perfectly captured the mood of anera. So why isn't Jerry Dammers playing on The Specials' sell-outreunion tour next month? They made a model of me, says Jerry Dammers, picking up a plasticfigurine from a shelf beneath his vinyl record collection. Its ...
From 'Loony Left' to Loadsamoney
Mar 01, 2009; ... Derek HattonOf all the characters to step into the media limelight in the1980s, one of the most colourful and emblematic was Derek Hatton.Somehow his life embodied everything the era stood for, from themilitant Labour politics of the first half of the decade, to ...
MONEY SPINNER
Mar 01, 2009; ... Twenty-five years ago, Martin Amis and his fellow young Britishnovelists hit the commercial bull's-eye - and we've been reading theresults ever since Generalisations about decades are difficult to maintain. Lifedoesnt neatly split into 10-year units and anything you say aboutone ...
Ten essential 1980s novels
Mar 01, 2009 ... Wise words 1. Earthly Powers (1980) Anthony Burgess Morally engaged, bitterly entertaining panorama of the 20thcentury, narrated by Kenneth Toomey, an octogenarian gay writerwhose best friend becomes Pope 2. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985) Jeanette ...
Maria Baibakova
Mar 01, 2009; ... Meet the young Russian gallerist on the hunt for Shoreditch'sfinest Shes young (23), Russian, got a rouble or three (her fatherearned a pile in mining) and she has her own art space in Moscow(Baibakov Art Projects) so whats the difference between MariaBaibakova and Dasha ...
The past master
Mar 01, 2009; ... Fiction This historical novel, which spans the globe and alifetime, is a colossal achievement The Book of Negroes By LawrenceHill Doubleday Pounds 12.99 This is a slave narrative deeply rooted in fact but skillfullycultivated into fiction. Lawrence Hill is not an ...
Enigma variations
Mar 01, 2009; ... Music You could fit what this biography reveals of its subject'sprivate life on the back of a cigarette packet Lowside of the Road:A life of Tom Waits By Barney Hoskyns Faber Pounds 20 Self-revelation has never come easily to the Los Angelenosongwriter, musician and occasional ...
Forgotten authors
Mar 01, 2009; ... No 25 Gavin Lyall A bit of a mans man was Gavin Tudor Lyall. In the 1960s, he wrotetales of square-jawed men dodging bullets and doing man things, buthis writing style was far from thick-ear. He was married to thejournalist Katharine Whitehorn (who has written lovingly about ...
'Nothing's too graphic for me'
Mar 01, 2009; ... Alan Moore believes his 'Watchmen' is unfilmable - and ZackSnyder agrees. So what has this 'choreographer of death' done to oneof the finest comic books ever created? Zack Snyder doesnt know how to spell enthusiasm. No, really. WhenI ask him to sign one of my Watchmen books at the ...
A not so happy slap
Mar 01, 2009; ... **** The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao By Junot Diaz FaberPounds 7.99 With this startling, breathless, sweetly harsh debut novel, JunotDaz, a justifiable Pulitzer Prize winner, has managed to portrayboth the particularity of the inner life of a Dominican teenage boyin ...
Four Letter Word: New Love Letters
Mar 01, 2009; ... ** ed Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter Vintage Pounds 7.99 The big problem with love letters is that theyre intimate;private, not public. Fictional letters such as in this anthologyrequire a reproduction of that intimate feel. It means not having toexplain to your private ...
Journey to Nowhere
Mar 01, 2009; ... **** By Eva Figes Granta Pounds 7.99 The story in this memoir is not so much Eva Figess as that of ayoung woman who was once her familys servant, back in 1930s Berlin.Edith has no surname in this book because no one, including Figes,ever asked her what it was. Born in an orphanage ...
My Unwritten Books
Mar 01, 2009; ... **** By George Steiner Phoenix Pounds 8.99 I first heard George Steiner at a lecture he gave at GlasgowUniversity almost 20 years ago, and was immediately bewitched. Hislatest volume, consisting of the outlines of seven unwritten books,is also bewitching; as personal as it is ...
The Room of Lost Things
Mar 01, 2009 ... ** By Stella Duffy Virago Pounds 7.99 Theres an essential literalness to Stella Duffys novel, in spiteof its ambitiousness. In order to embrace the full multiculturaldiversity of London, as well as its history since the violence ofthe Second World War, Duffy has assembled an ...
Re-animated
Mar 01, 2009 ... THE COLLECTION The 'Watchmen' heroes brought to big-screen life Doctor Manhattan After a nuclear accident, scientist JonOstermans godlike powers mean he can do practically anything thoughhe does find it hard to connect with people Rorschach An alienated, ...
Julia Gregson & Sadie Jones
Mar 01, 2009; ... How we met 'We could exult together without being smug. Sadiecalls it our Spice Girl moment' Julia Gregson 61 is a former journalist for Rolling Stone and short-story writer.Her book East of the Sun was winner of Romantic Novel of the Year2009. She lives in Monmouth, ...
BEELZEBUB CROSSWORD
Mar 01, 2009 ... ACROSS 1 Failure has Liberal standing down in recess (4) 4 Composer almost crazed, injecting heroin (8) 10 After holiday Ulster Unionist MP supported dumping leader,being fresh (12) 11 Unknown study backed Government investing in fodder forrestricted diet ...
James Wong
Mar 01, 2009; ... Grow Your Own Drugs Monday 8.30pm BBC2 James Wong is passionate about plants, and by the end of hisfirst television show, Grow Your Own Drugs (not those kinds ofdrugs), you will be too. Wong is an ethnobotanist, which means thathe studies how people use plants. I can understand ...
Are we there yet?
Mar 01, 2009; ... Is it a good idea to go on holiday with another family? ReaderAlan Gardiner has written asking my opinion. Alan, the short answeris no unless youre a saint who loves all children, genuinely enjoyscooking and cleaning up for 13 people and is absolutely fine withsleeping in the pokiest ...
It's five-star service at this budget bolthole
Mar 01, 2009; ... Thailand's small guest houses offer an affordable, authentic andstylish taste of this southeast Asian country, says Andrew Spooner Mozart is weaving musical magic; orchids are blooming all aroundme and an Italian in a panama hat is bringing me breakfast.Incredible, says Paolo ...
City Slicker Sarasota
Mar 01, 2009; ... It's festival time in this Florida city, so get some culture withyour suntan. Ian McCurrach offers a guide Why visit? Floridas cultural centre springs into life this month with aseries of high-profile events. The 29th annual Jazz Festival(jazzclubsarasota.com) kicks off ...
Stay the night Chalet Treize Etoiles Verbier
Mar 01, 2009; ... Verbier is both a top-quality resort and undisputed fun capitalof the Alps, and those who want to join James Blunt, Ronan Keatingand Lawrence Dallaglio in the Coco Club after midnight shouldconsider Ski Verbiers new Treize Etoiles complex. Of the matchedpair of chalet apartments, the top ...
DVD
Mar 01, 2009; ... Incendiary Retail & rental OPTIMUMThis confused melodrama miscasts Michelle Williams as an EastEnder whos having an affair with Ewan McGregors tabloid hack when aterrorist bomb goes off in London, killing her husband. The storywould have ...
A gay knight and the misery of persecution
Mar 01, 2009; ... Nicholas de Jongh all but silences critics as he turns a sharp,funny, playwright's pen on bigotry Theatre Plague Over EnglandDuchess Theatre LONDON On the Waterfront Theatre Royal, HaymarketLONDON You have to admire Nicholas de Jongh, emerging from the safety ofhis first-night ...
Like Hitler, but without the humanity
Mar 01, 2009; ... Lindsay Duncan's portrayal of Thatcher during her last days as PMwas so one-dimensional it was hard to care Television Margaret BBC2 EastEnders BBC1 Paris Hilton's British Best Friend ITV2 Was it deliberate that Margaret, about the last days of theThatcher government, struck a ...
Six of the best in energy and spirit
Mar 01, 2009; ... Dance Ballet Black Linbury Studio LONDON Barack and Michelle Obama and their daughters were spotted at theballet the other week at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, wherethe Alvin Ailey troupe was visiting. In a city where every flickerof the presidential eyelid is ...
The band who put the creepy into Crawley
Mar 01, 2009; ... The Cure show off the length of their back catalogue, whileAmadou & Mariam just want everyone to have fun Rock The Cure 02LONDON Amadou & Mariam Concorde 2 BRIGHTON A member of The Cure once told me to cheer up. Which I thoughtrevealed a lot about his band. For all their status ...
The retailers vanish. Will your money follow?
Mar 01, 2009; ... The recession is cutting a swath through the high street. Everyweek, it seems, another familiar name disappears into the black holeof administration. With them go thousands of jobs and, for someunlucky consumers, the deposits for goods that they never get. If a retailer goes into ...
Lucy can make her trip abroad a lot less rocky
Mar 01, 2009; ... The patient Lucy Hares, 27, is emigrating to the Canadian Rockies in twoyears time to enjoy the outdoor lifestyle. Yet while its an excitingmove for the keen snowboarder, from near Minehead in Somerset, itsalso financially nerve-racking as she will have to search for workand a ...
Returns with little risk at a time like this?
Mar 01, 2009; ... Even after 12 months during which share prices have fallen at analmost unprecedented rate, the fund management industry is stillbusy dreaming up ways to get investors to part with their cash. Andthe latest must haves are absolute return funds. As the name suggests, these aim to ...
Government to boost carers' savings
Mar 01, 2009 ... Carers are set to benefit from government contributions to theirsavings, beside those on low incomes, as part of the Saving Gatewayscheme. Regular savings by those on benefits will receivecontributions of 50p per 1 saved. By 2010, when the scheme comes into effect, those who ...
When there's no saving graces, why not knock years off the mortgage?
Mar 01, 2009; ... With rates so low, you can save a lot more interest by overpayingthan you can earn by putting surplus cash in a deposit account.Chiara Cavaglieri reportsIts a question on many home-owners lips: what to do with thespare cash in their pockets now rates have been slashed ...
Handsome, sporty type seeks super-rich admirer
Mar 01, 2009; ... The Jaguar XFR is just about perfect. It's just a shame thatfewer people can afford to buy luxury cars right now Road Test Torque. Its mentioned in cars specification sheets, and lots ofit seems to be a passport to a rapidly effortless drive. But whatexactly is it? Its what makes ...
Surly, sarky, rude ... and that's just the teacher
Mar 01, 2009; ... A year in the life of a tough Parisian classroom is engrossingand educational, not least in the way it breaks some cinematic rulesFilm The Class Laurent Cantet 128 MINS, 15 In one scene of Laurent Cantets Oscar-nominated The Class, aParisian schoolteacher struggles to explain the ...
EMERGENCY STOP: EXTRACTS FROM JAMES RUPPERT'S BOOK ON THE CAR SECTOR
Mar 01, 2009 ... Now there is a prevailing view that the car industry is anotoriously difficult one in which to thrive or even just survive. That is true as the amount of money involved in remaining inbusiness is phenomenal. Also the high-volume nature of vehicleproduction means there have often ...
It's a toss-up. A Pounds 100bn leap in the dark
Mar 01, 2009; ... Lying on Mervyn Kings Bank of England desk is the draft of aletter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer seeking authority to takethe Bank into territory it has not visited before. This week theGovernor will sign and send it and Alistair Darlings reply will giveKing permission to start a ...
Fraud Office probe is the only way to rebuild confidence
Mar 01, 2009; ... You can almost taste the smell of decay wafting over Westminster.Its the stench of burnt fingers, singed scalps and backroomstabbing, as ministers and their spin doctors dance around eachother in a desperate bid to distance themselves from the greatestbanking scandal ever to hit this ...
'Once the troubles had ended, we broadened our horizons'
Mar 01, 2009; ... The editor of The Irish News tells Matthew Bell how his paper hasbucked the sales trend There is no champagne on ice and he has no plans for a party, butNoel Doran could be forgiven for raising a small glass next month tomark his 10th anniversary as editor of The Irish ...
The feral beast
Mar 01, 2009 ... Dressed to leave Sad news from the Evening Standard, where legendary investigativereporter Keith Dovkants has applied for voluntary redundancy. Tenmembers of staff have put their names down since ownership wastransferred to the Lebedevs, which became official at 5 oclock ...
Bono does Dylan, Reed, Springsteen ... and himself
Mar 01, 2009; ... CDS ROCK U2 No Line on the Horizon INTERSCOPE Despite bold promises of a departure in direction, the 12th U2studio album does a mean average of the rest of the dozen. It wasrecorded in Fs, Morocco (the rumoured North African influences areinaudible), and its generic homogeneity ...
DANCE
Mar 01, 2009; ... Brighton Port Authority I Think We're Gonna Need a Bigger BoatSOUTHERN FRIED Brighton Port Authority is the latest incarnation of Norman Cook.The concept is that BPAs songs could have been recorded sometimeduring the Seventies, which really means its a repository for stuffthat ...
ROOTS
Mar 01, 2009; ... J J Cale Roll On BECAUSESome things dont change, and sometimes we should be grateful.This is Cales 16th solo effort and the first in five years(discounting the 2006 joint venture with Eric Clapton). For thosewho dont know, Cale embodies the widescreen yet intimate Okiechoogle: ...
WORLD
Mar 01, 2009; ... Novalima Coba Coba CUMBANCHALike Gotan Project at their best, this Afro-Peruvian outfit takesthe rhythmic and melodic forms of its traditional music which datesback to slavery and Spanish colonial rule and make something whollyvital and contemporary out them. You can hear the ...
JAZZ
Mar 01, 2009; ... Nathan Davis If SOUL JAZZIts funny how some names slip through historys net. Following hisarmy service, Kansas City saxophonist Davis spent the Sixties inParis, leading bands, studying ethno-musicology and turning downcontracts with Art Blakey and Blue Note Records, ...
COUNTRY
Mar 01, 2009; ... Miss Lana Rebel All I Need LOOSEAh, good old-fashioned country music. Well, good old-fashionedcountry music as played by someone who spent her twenties in asludgy, noisy, instrumental math-metal band called Last of theJuanitas. Miss Lana Rebel is a native of Portland, ...
FOLK
Mar 01, 2009; ... Jon Boden Songs from the Floodplain NAVIGATORA second solo album by the Bellowhead guy. And hes having post-apocalyptic visions: black crows, water-tossed sweet-wrappers,fallen walls and all. An album-length vision, with occasional rockunderpinnings. Very dramatic. Trouble is, ...
WORLD
Mar 01, 2009; ... Niyireth Musica Colombiana Andina ARCNiyireth Alarcon is a conservatory-trained mezzo who hasdedicated her life to popularising the music of the high Andes, andwhat she delivers here is charming. Some of the rhythms arrived fromCuba, some from Africa, and some from Europe ...
CLASSICAL
Mar 01, 2009; ... Mazzocchi Vespro della beata Vergine - Cantus Colln HARMONIAMUNDICantus Cllns imagined reconstruction of a Vespers performance inSt Peters, Rome, captures the collision of 16th-century polyphonyand 17th-century monody in psalms, hymns and canzonas by VirgilioMazzocchi, ...
'Slumdog' kids back to earth with a bump
Mar 01, 2009; ... Centrepiece THE WORLD IN PICTURES Just days after gracing the red carpet at the 81st Oscars in LA,nine-year-old Rubina Ali was adjusting to life back at homeyesterday, above a sea of rubbish in an Indian shanty town. Rubina, who played the heroine of Slumdog Millionaire as a ...
A ruthless fighter, seduced by the lure of power
Mar 01, 2009; ... Hero or Villain? Paul Myners Lord Myners is used to punch-ups. It was Myners, the Cityminister embroiled in the row over Sir Fred Goodwins pension pot,who was parachuted into Marks & Spencer to save the retailer fromcollapsing sales and defend it against Sir Philip Greens ...
British only? Bang goes the wife, the dog, and the car
Mar 01, 2009; ... I really should pay more attention to the contracts that I sign.I was offered an interesting programme recently that I said yes towithout really thinking about it. Its called Made in Britain, andthe idea, or so I thought, was that I potter around the UK in aMorgan looking at the few ...
MIFA closes in on Pounds 70m buyout
Mar 01, 2009; ... A 70m management buyout of Mourant International FinanceAdministration (MIFA), a Jersey-based financial services group, isexpected to be completed by early summer. Big four accountancy firm Deloitte is handling the sale for theMourant group of companies, which is run by chief ...
Miner to repay $2bn to lenders
Mar 01, 2009; ... Kazakhmys, the Ftse 100 listed mining giant, will this monthstart paying back $2.1bn (1.5bn) to its lenders over four years. The Eurasian group had planned to refinance the $44m-a-month debtrepayment package last year, but the weak financial markets ruledout the move. However, ...
Green Shoots and Leaves
Mar 01, 2009 ... Monitoring rising sap Van demand: Dealers around Britain are saying that there is asurge in demand for used vans, according to the industry websitehonestjohn.co.uk. And who could possibly doubt a source like that? Flowers: Tte--ttes blooming (Manchester, Lancashire); ...
THE COLUMNISTS
Mar 01, 2009 ... Jades husband is no fairy tale No one could begrudge Jade Goody her dream wedding day, commentsJane Moore in The Sun, but her choice of husband isnt quite so fairytale. Jack Tweed is just 21 and already has a criminal conviction tohis name. And a nasty one at that . Since Jade and ...
Mea vita nova cum astris* (*My new life with the stars)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Britain's latest brainbox, Gail Trimble, puts her Latin skills touse by giving us her profound thoughts on the week's most importantevents Salve! hic prima pagina gentica est scripta in lingua Latina.Kennedys Primer [librum retextum] habere prope vos moneo ut beneintellegatis ....
DEATHS
Mar 01, 2009 ... Ian Carr, trumpeter and composer in the jazz-rock band Nucleus,died on Wednesday. Formed in 1969, Nucleus was an immediate success,appearing at festivals in Newport and Montreux. Carr wrote booksabout Miles Davis, and also had a distinguished career as a radiopresenter. Wendy ...
Charges? Ryanair hasn't started yet
Mar 01, 2009; ... BUDGET AIRLINES Ryanair says it may charge passengers 1 each to spend a penny onplanes. But we have discovered a safety card revealing that theplans of its chief executive, Michael OLeary, do not stop there 1 In the event of a sudden loss of pressure, oxygen masks ...