The Independent on Sunday (London, England) back issues from June 2009:
The penny drops on cheap treats
Jun 07, 2009; ... Bites This week's New Review Food Special celebrates nature and,admittedly, there's not much that's natural about sweets, but theyare a simple pleasure. And since belt-tightening is all around(financially, if not physically), sweets give pleasure beyond theirdiminutive size. One ...
All you need is love, Trace
Jun 07, 2009; ... Parties A queue of eager guests snaked around Jay Jopling's White Cube inMayfair last week for the private view of Tracey Emin's exhibition,Those Who Suffer Love - her first London show in four years. Swarms of people made their way round the three rooms. First up:a ...
The harsh reality of letting Boyle sing
Jun 07, 2009; ... Culture As someone who has served as a judge on various reality-TV shows(including BBC2's Eating with the Enemy and ITV's Hell's Kitchen), Ifollowed the story of Susan Boyle's admission to the Priory clinicwith a good deal of interest. Were Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan andAmanda ...
Why I love...
Jun 07, 2009; ... Name Tamara Schlesinger Occupation Singer, 6 Day Riot PassionFlying high I used to be an international gymnast. It was a massive part ofmy life. I started when I was four, and it was all I ever wanted todo. As a teenager, I competed for Scotland and the British B squad.I broke ...
Flip chart
Jun 07, 2009; ... It's June, so it must be Adopt a Cat Month! Well, in the States,anyway. Surely they don't care about our feline friends more thanus? Here and now, let's pledge to take up this noble ...
'I KNOW THIS GREAT LITTLE PLACE IN TOKYO'
Jun 07, 2009; ... It seats only eight, and you won't get a table without aninvitation. But if you do make it in to Mibu, you'll be treated tofood that can literally make you convulse with pleasure. MichaelBooth reports As we began our descent into Tokyo Narita airport, the happymemory of my in- ...
FROM PLOT TO PLATE
Jun 07, 2009 ... There's a whole treasure trove of simple green goodies to beharvested at Petersham - and Skye Gyngell has the recipes to makethe most of their raw appealSummer is finally here - the weather has started to get warmer,the sun is beginning to shine, there are more and more ...
SALVATORE CALABRESE Bartender, 54
Jun 07, 2009; ... Credo I believe ... There is no such thing as 'under age' in [my native] Maiori onthe Amalfi Coast. I started working as a commis bartender when I was11. My dad had passed away and it was a way to keep off the street. Signor Raffaello, the bar owner, was like Humphrey Bogart ...
How Meltdown found its mojo
Jun 07, 2009; ... He invented his own theory of jazz, can't stand pianists and onceasked to be castrated. Expect things to get a little crazy whenOrnette Coleman curates this summer's musical wig-out on London'sSouth BankIt might be hard to imagine in any other art form, but OrnetteColeman has ...
Charting the battle within
Jun 07, 2009; ... Sexuality, masculinity and gangster chic have been at the heartof Jake Arnott's novels. In his latest, he analyses the classrepression of one of the heroes of Empire At a recent party, Jake Arnott noticed a group of Old Etonians.They exuded a sense of entitlement only an elite ...
No 36 Michael McDowell
Jun 07, 2009; ... Forgotten authors "I am a commercial writer and I'm proud of that," said Alabama-born Michael McDowell, "I think it is a mistake to try to write forthe ages." His gothic deep-South novels appeared mainly aspaperbacks in the golden age of the throwaway read, the early 1980s,but ...
TINY TUBS OF TASTE
Jun 07, 2009; ... Herbs are simple, inexpensive and the crowning glory of so manydishes - growing your own is the biggest favour you'll ever do yourfood, says Emma Townshend I was slightly freaked out when I went into the kitchen of aculinary-minded friend recently. She would never dream of ...
Marek Losey
Jun 07, 2009; ... Close-up After a decade making TV ads, he's finally gone into thefamily business In Cannes last month, Marek Losey introduced a new print ofAccident, one of the most celebrated films by his illustriousgrandfather Joseph. Finally, after two decades in the film industry,the latest ...
Hearts of stone
Jun 07, 2009; ... Fiction This beguiling historical novel imagines the inner andemotional lives of Mesolithic-era humans The Gathering Night ByMargaret Elphinstone Canongate Pounds 12.99 Loss is the driving force behind the narrative of MargaretElphinstone's ambitious new novel. The character whose ...
Hitler, JFK and gardening
Jun 07, 2009; ... Essays More 'Mitford-alia' to delight the gossips Home to Roostand Other Peckings By Deborah Devonshire John Murray Pounds 10 ThePursuit of Laughter: Essays, Reviews and Diary By Diana MosleyGibson Square Pounds 8.99 If the 1930s were the Mitfords' heyday, the Noughties have ...
So much to answer for
Jun 07, 2009; ... Music How was Manchester able to overtake Liverpool as theepicentre of pop, and what is its legacy? The North Will Rise Again:Manchester Music City 1976-1996 By John Robb Aurum Pounds 16.99Factory: The Story of the Record Label By Mick Middles Virgin Pounds8.99 For many years, ...
You, too, will believe
Jun 07, 2009; ... ***** The Believers By Zoe Heller Penguin Pounds 7.99 Just as there are songs which announce themselves as great fromthe opening chords, there are some books that you just know aregoing to be great from the first page, the first paragraph, thefirst line. Zo Heller's third novel, ...
It's a PC World
Jun 07, 2009; ... *** By Edward Stourton Hodder & Stoughton Pounds 7.99 Edward Stourton is an urbane and humane guide through the trickyterrain of the politically correct. Is the notion of PC speech andbehaviour an enlightened, civilised way of fighting unfairdiscrimination; or is it a bullying, ...
Good to be God
Jun 07, 2009; ... *** By Tibor Fischer Alma Books Pounds 7.99 Tyndale Corbett is all washed-up at 40: no job, no mortgage, nowife, no kids, no prospects. So when his friend offers him thechance to impersonate him and go to Miami for a conference ofhandcuff manufacturers, why wouldn't he jump at it? ...
Margaret Thatcher
Jun 07, 2009; ... **** By John Campbell Vintage Pounds 14.99 Reading this book on the Tube I kept it cover down, in caseanyone thought I was a fan. I'm not and never will be, but by thetime I reached the end of this magisterial biography, I was preparedto concede that Thatcher had virtues in ...
Personal Days
Jun 07, 2009; ... **** By Ed Park Vintage Pounds 7.99 Here's a novel for anyone who feels alienated at work (ie most ofus). A group of New York office workers in an unnamed corporationwhose business is never disclosed bicker, joke, compete, flirt andfret about who'll be fired next. It's written in ...
CONCISE CROSSWORD No. 1008
Jun 07, 2009 ... SL FOR 4/10 By Mass The entries marked "?" are linked and suggested by the uncluedanswer(s) forming the puzzle's title Across 1 Tree (5) 4/10 See title (6,5) 9 Huge violent wave (7) 10 See 4 11 Board game (4) 12 Derange ...
BEELZEBUB CROSSWORD No. 1007
Jun 07, 2009 ... ACROSS 1 Revision? Endlessly irritable, occupied by it at home (7) 6 Move briskly back to get nibbles (5) 10 One blushes, giving up resistance, after row about lingeringin nest (10) 11 Ruler assists artwork in part (4) 12 Signals followed by army coming to ...
DAVID ROCKWELL & NOBU MATSUHISA
Jun 07, 2009; ... How we met 'He was obsessed with the height relationship betweenthe eyes of the chef and the customer' David Rockwell 53 is an architect and founder of the Rockwell Group design firm.His projects include the W Hotel in New York, Gordon Ramsay's Mazein London and Nobu ...
Alex Prior
Jun 07, 2009; ... The World's Greatest Musical Prodigies Monday 9pm Channel 4 Though the composer/conductor Alex Prior describes hisinvolvement in The World's Greatest Musical Prodigies as a "joyous"experience, he's less enamoured by the title bestowed upon the newseries. "I don't like the word ...
BACK TO NATURE
Jun 07, 2009; ... What happens when you get eleven of the world's best chefs, takethem to a forest and make them forage for their ingredients? TerryDurack reports on the raw food, raw energy and raw passion of'SuperNatural' eating At the World Business Summit in Copenhagen two weeks ago today,the ...
HERE'S A FRUITY LITTLE NUMBER
Jun 07, 2009; ... Next time you pick up a bottle, pick up a punnet too and you'llhave the perfect ingredients for an afternoon spent unwinding in thesummer sun, says drinks expert Victoria Moore Cucumber Martini Cucumbers have a bare, green taste that shows through with subtledetachment in a ...
Food
Jun 07, 2009 ... The Farm Shop Cook Book by Christine McFadden Absolute PressPounds 20 More than 1,700 farm shops have sprung up since the 1970s, whenBritish farmers were encouraged to diversify into retail. ChristineMcFadden's recipes show ...
Help me plot a path through this low-rate world
Jun 07, 2009; ... The patient Nigel Fletcher, 40, from Halifax, West Yorkshire, had onceexpected his endowment policy to cover the cost of his home. He nowknows it will fall short by 12,000. Undeterred, Nigel hopes to own his home outright within the nextfew years, but the logistics and ...
Bogus websites can trick landlords out of tenants' deposits
Jun 07, 2009 ... Landlords have been warned to be wary of firms pretending to beauthorised to operate the Government's tenant deposit scheme,introduced in 2007. Under the scheme, just three companies can holdtenants' deposits during their tenure. It was set up in response tocomplaints that many landlords ...
Another day, another pensions chief - and it will all end in tears
Jun 07, 2009; ... So yet another Work and Pensions secretary bites the dust. Thistime around, James Purnell has chosen to take the long walk off ashort pier in a bid to be a latter-day Michael Heseltine. He may gethis wish as far as Gordon Brown going is concerned, but he'sdefinitely no ...
Men ignore financial fall-out of ill health
Jun 07, 2009; ... The numbers are sobering at best and scary at worst. Roughly onein three men contract cancer during their life, and a substantialproportion suffer stroke or a heart attack. Yet men are generallymore reluctant than women to seek the advice of their GP and theyare more likely to engage in ...
Revealed: The very modern treasure in Venice's coffers
Jun 07, 2009; ... The biennale is back in town and, as contemporary artists flockto Venice, a new gallery has opened in the city's old customs house.Adrian Mourby had a sneak preview Last time I was in Venice, I was sitting at La Cusina, arestaurant with its terrace right on the Grand Canal - so ...
City Slicker Helsinki
Jun 07, 2009; ... The best time to go to Finland's capital is during the long daysof summer. Nick Boulos provides a guide for first-time and returningvisitors Why visit? Helsinki is at its most splendid as summer arrives, heraldinglong days to enjoy what Finland does best: the great outdoors ....
A two-minute video is all the truth I need
Jun 07, 2009; ... The publisher Caroline Michel explained the new business model tome over lunch last week. The important thing to grasp was that abook was no longer the starting point. These days the deal couldbegin with something as instant as a video clip. The video clipcould lead to a book. The book ...
Admire those blue remembered hills
Jun 07, 2009; ... On this walk you can see the landscape that inspired Shropshirelad A E Housman, writes Mark Rowe Walk of the month Shropshire Alfred Edward Housman has contributed several phrases to thelexicon of English poetry. The poet, whose 150th anniversary hasbeen overshadowed by that of ...
Surf's up! Time to teach my beach boys how to take to the waves
Jun 07, 2009; ... Are we there yet?If I learned one lesson during our holiday in Cornwall lastsummer, it was that you should never wear a wetsuit in public,especially if you've spent the week eating Cornish pasties.Synthetic bodysuits are designed to make you look very uncool indeed(unless, of ...
Stonehenge, Longleat and all that jazz
Jun 07, 2009 ... British breaks Wiltshire What's on There's plenty to keep the feet tapping this summer in Wiltshire.The Marlborough Jazz Festival (marlboroughjazz .co.uk) leads theway, from 10 to 12 July, featuring old favourites and up-and-comingnames including YolanDa Brown and her Trio ...
Tips & deals
Jun 07, 2009 ... The directions Cotswolds-based Classic Motoring has launched Sat-nav guidedtours for its classic car breaks. The new technology has been usedto offer an assortment of traditional tours, including gardens,castles, and palaces. Go to classicmotoring.co.uk The ...
It's all done in the best possible taste
Jun 07, 2009; ... They've spent $40m rejuvenating this Manhattan hotel. Will theresults please its trend-setting guests? Stay the night W New York There's nothing like a birthday to prompt a good hard look in themirror. At W New York, they took the hint and lavished $40m on acomplete makeover of ...
A pavilion far from the madding crowd
Jun 07, 2009; ... Britain's chosen artist, Steve McQueen, shuns the biennalerazzmatazz to screen an intriguing film about Venice Visual Art Venice Biennale Venice ITALY On Tuesday night, my vaporetto passed a submarine, moored by apalazzo and decorated alla Tiziano. On Wednesday morning, I ...
Britney's got talent - not that you can tell in this 'Circus'
Jun 07, 2009; ... Her troubles have been well documented but the pop princess isback, and she's cracking the whip Pop Britney Spears 02 LONDON It's a measure of how fast the pop merry-go-round turns that thefairground rides on the forecourt of London's 02 are gently turningto the sound of Lily ...
Here's something that could put you off sex for life
Jun 07, 2009; ... Alban Berg's 'Lulu' was never a date opera, but a new productionmakes a bleak story even bleaker. The joy comes in the searing musicfrom the pit Classical Lulu Royal Opera House LONDON One Evening Queen Elizabeth Hall LONDON Mitridate Sadler's Wells LONDON A change of name, a ...
A triumph for ironmongery
Jun 07, 2009; ... Arnie-type Terminators are in their infancy in this prequel-sequel gun-fest, but who cares? In McG's dull dystopia even humanstalk like machines, and a never-ending war franchise means that ...they'll be back Film Terminator Salvation McG 115 MINS, CERT 12AWhat is it that makes ...
Poignant, sweet and very funny. A sports movie that's pitch perfect
Jun 07, 2009; ... Film 2 Sugar Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck 114 MINS, 15 Last ChanceHarvey Joel Hopkins 92 MINS, 12A Just to get the puns out of the way first, Sugar is in adifferent league from most sports movies. It's not even in the sameball park. A nuanced, humane drama from the writer-directors ...
ALSO SHOWING
Jun 07, 2009; ... Max Manus, Man of War (118 mins, 15) There's been a spate of films about wartime resistance agents,but this Norwegian example holds its own alongside Black Book, Flame& Citron, Female Agents, Lust, Caution and Defiance. As the truestory of Max Manus (Aksel Hennie), a ...
The only show with its own tan
Jun 07, 2009; ... Bronze is beautiful in the latest 'Strictly' spin-off, a flurryof quivering bootys Dance Latin Fever Peacock Theatre LONDON Only those who never stay in on Saturday nights will be surprisedat the sequin fever currently sweeping theatres. Darren Bennett andLilia Kopylova are the ...
Lumley is so last week - vote Portas
Jun 07, 2009; ... Mary's no-nonsense attitude would clean-up the Commons, but hernew show also has plenty of dirty laundry Television Mary Queen ofCharity Shops BBC2 My Monkey Baby CHANNEL 4 Don't even think about Joanna Lumley and Esther Rantzen. If thereis one female celebrity I would like to ...
They might sound good, but all the horror has gone out of it
Jun 07, 2009; ... Rock The Horrors Concorde 2 BRIGHTON Didn't it break your heart? When photos of The Horrors in thestudio emerged in NME earlier this year, showing them clean-faced,flat-haired and plaid-shirted, it wasn't an unlucky candid cameramoment. This was the image they wanted to present ....
Tenants face heartbreak over landlord pet ban
Jun 07, 2009; ... It's an agonising choice, your home or your pet? But it's onefacing many more Britons as the housing market continues tosplutter. Pet owners are being forced to give up their furry friendsbecause landlords are reluctant to accept tenants with animals intheir properties, according to the ...
What's funny about the perilous state of the press? Quite a lot, actually
Jun 07, 2009; ... Radio Electric Ink Radio 4 David Attenborough's Life StoriesRadio 4 Having worked in newspapers since the days when computers werenew-fangled, I feel well qualified to assess whether the new comedyseries Electric Ink is up to the mark in its observations on thepress, in the ...
Don't let the banks bleed you dry in their bid for profits
Jun 07, 2009; ... Britain's banks and building societies are after your money likenever before. But instead of offering bumper savings rates toattract new customer cash, our financial giants are choosing other,more underhand, routes to repairing their balance sheets, which havebeen laid waste by the ...
This beastie's too tame for the urban jungle
Jun 07, 2009; ... It's a crossover. We've seen these before, I believe. The idea isto mix some visual and proportional attributes of an SUV with theconvenience and simplicity of a hatchback, and create something notoverly aggressive but somehow suited to the role of protectivetransport capsule in the ...
A vehicle that's fit for teenagers ... and their cellos
Jun 07, 2009; ... A car for the head Big estate cars? There is really only one Daddy, and that's theVolvo V70. It's a huge estate that has a wide and flat load baywhich can take absolutely everything that you can throw in it,including a couple of cellos. Its rear seats split and fold so youcan get ...
Awards add spice to family firms
Jun 07, 2009 ... Levi Root, the Reggae Reggae sauce maker, and Barclays smallbusiness experts have found Britain's most enterprising "familyaffair" in Norfolk: its the Howard family, who run a wholesalenursery in Diss. Howard Nurseries was founded by David Howard, now70, who still works every day of the ...
The feral beast
Jun 07, 2009 ... 'National' service ends Just a year after the launch of The National in Abu Dhabi,rumours swirl that Martin Newland is to step down. The former DailyTelegraph editor set up the English-language paper, recruitingseveral ex-Telegraph hacks to join him. Colin Randall and Sue ...
Deutsche's top trader pledges to stay at bank
Jun 07, 2009; ... Anshu Jain, Deutsche Bank's head of global markets who isprobably the firm's highest earner, has committed his long-termfuture to the bank following suggestions he could quit the firm fora rival. Mr Jain, 46, denied growing rumours in the City that he couldquit for rivals, saying ...
Talks poised to take caravan parks out of private equity firm's control
Jun 07, 2009; ... Talks to restructure Park Resorts, the ailing private equity-backed caravan group, are believed to have reached a criticaljuncture, sources close to the situation have said. PricewaterhouseCoopers, which was drafted in by a consortium ofbanks led by Lloyds Banking group, is thought ...
ITV bring in UBS to run Pounds 200m sale of freeview channel operator
Jun 07, 2009; ... ITV has appointed UBS, the Swiss investment bank, to run the saleof its freeview channel operator, SDN. It's believed that UBS beatoff Lazard to manage the auction, which could net ITV as much as200m. The sale of SDN, which rents capacity to ...
Civil servants will lead hunt to find new chairman for nationalised bank agency
Jun 07, 2009; ... The Treasury is carrying out its own search to find the newchairman for UKFI, the government agency which overseas theshareholdings in the UK's banks, Royal Bank of Scotland and LloydsBanking Group. Treasury officials have started interviewing potential candidatesto take over ...
Commercial mortgage lender to offer loans again after months in hibernation
Jun 07, 2009; ... Commercial First, the Essex-based mortgage lender that was forcedinto hibernation after closing its doors to new business last year,is set to recommence lending to its customers. The lender, which is run by David Johnson, the Grand Nationalwinning horse-owner, is believed to have ...
Still watching: The man who brought us 'Big Brother'
Jun 07, 2009; ... Peter Bazalgette has a knack for good timing. In the Nineties, heinvented Changing Rooms, the home-improvement show that spawned adozen others and brought us Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen . Then hedreamed up Ready Steady Cook and Ground Force, both sold and copiedworldwide. His ability to tap ...
Missing $165m: Madoff cleaned London out just before his arrest
Jun 07, 2009; ... Bernie Madoff, the $60bn fraudster, ordered his London office tosell its $165m portfolio of UK gilts only a month before heconfessed to the FBI that his business was a "big lie". The London directors followed his instructions, transferring thesale proceeds to Madoff's New York ...
My father's D-Day
Jun 07, 2009; ... National frictions on the road to Berlin; tribal fictions indarkest East Anglia; things Orwell got right, things Paxman getswrong; oh, and pop intellectuals The bottom line Second World Wartales What Orwell got right The literature of pop criticism Silly Suffolk Paxman lashes out ...
1984 Sixty years on
Jun 07, 2009; ... Orwell's classic was published on 8 June 1949 - and has had adeep impact on millions. Andrew Johnson talks to writers about it -and asks them to cite their favourite reads Robert Harris 1984, George Orwell 1984, I think, is the most influential book ever written, and soyou ...