The Independent on Sunday (London, England) back issues from July 2009:
Now you see it...
Jul 05, 2009; ... Fashion Spotted at Glastonbury: Lily Allen's pants. Not that they wereeasily missed, mind you, with the young singer wandering around inthe most transparent of sheer slips. It actually looks a bit like itwas drawn on to her later by an injurious censor, so clear were hermatching ...
No victories please - we're British
Jul 05, 2009; ... Culture One of the few compensations of growing old is that you are lesslikely to be disappointed by Britain's sporting defeats. Indeed, itis possible to come up with a new version of Shakespeare's sevenages of man to reflect this fact. At first the infant, cheering along ...
Grayson zigs and Bill zags
Jul 05, 2009; ... Parties Guests ummed and ahhed as they wound themselves around EvaRothschild's giant, room-encompassing zig-zag of a sculpture thatwas the centrepiece for Tate Britain's summer party on Monday. The checklist for an art-crowd evening such as this is scant:luminous, clashing ...
Benefit of the doubt
Jul 05, 2009; ... Wendy Perriam has made a habit of turning crises of faith intocharacters of depth. Then came the death of her only daughter. Shetells Peter Stanford how grief drove her to the only therapy thatworked: writing a new collection of haunting short stories We're perched in a coffee ...
Kathleen Winsor
Jul 05, 2009; ... Forgotten authors No 37 Authors are prone to notoriety. Any printed display of opinion isbound to raise questions, and then there's the matter of censorship.In this case, censorship in America - something Kathleen Winsor(1919-2003) discovered the hard way. Winsor was a smart, ...
I lived to tell the tale
Jul 05, 2009; ... **** The Storyteller By Rabih Alameddine Picador Pounds 7.99 Alameddine, his name apparently a derivative of Aladdin, rejoicesin the ability to spin a story that lasts for 1,001 nights, whilesimultaneously describing the effects of Israeli attacks on hishomeland, Lebanon, over ...
How very Moorish
Jul 05, 2009; ... Gently spiced dishes based on the subtly sweet flavours of NorthAfrica are perfect for balmy English summer meals, says Skye Gyngell These dishes are loosely based on the cuisine of North Africa -their flavours are warm and spicy, with slightly sweet undertones.Ground whole spices ...
Raise your glasses
Jul 05, 2009; ... After eight years and 385 reviews for the IoS, Terry Durack signsoff with a restaurant built to last Of the 385 restaurants I have reviewed over the past eight yearsfor these pages, one in four no longer exists. They burst upon thescene with high hopes, big dreams and enormous ...
Jo Brand
Jul 05, 2009; ... Getting On Wednesday 10pm BBC4 Jo Brand may have enjoyed a two-decade career as one of thecountrys most forthright stand-up comics, but broach the subject ofacting and her confidence drains. In my own head, I am absolutelyappalling [at it]. I auditioned for a Lynda La Plante ...
CONCISE CROSSWORD No. 1012
Jul 05, 2009 ... SL FOR 17Ac By Mass The entries marked ? are linked and suggested by the uncluedanswer(s) forming the puzzles title Across 1 Structure separating windowpanes (7) 5 Young herring (5) 8 Meeting of witches (5) 9 ? (7) 10 Farming ...
BEELZEBUB CROSSWORD No.1011
Jul 05, 2009 ... ACROSS 1 Diamond wealthy person put back inside vehicle with fuss (9) 10 Cunning reflection of your slippery character (5) 12 Club certainly not for sheep (6) 13 Absolute devil sanctioned by law (8) 14 Increase size of university and talk boastfully ...
Anyone for Bible class?
Jul 05, 2009; ... THE ROBERT CHALMERS INTERVIEW Vincent Furnier may once have hadhis problems with crack and booze, but these days the 61-year-old isa Republican golf fanatic who teaches kids religion every Wednesday.So why can't he give up his alter-ego Alice Cooper, songs aboutserial killers and ...
Nothing short of sensational
Jul 05, 2009; ... Short stories Oxfam delivers four books of stunning tales Ox-Tales: Earth, Air, Fire and Water Various authors Profile BooksPounds 5 each To raise money for its charities and celebrate the impendingworld domination of its second-hand bookshops, it seems appropriatethat Oxfam ...
Sir Ian McKellen & Jonathan Hyde
Jul 05, 2009; ... How we met 'When I saw Ian perform as Richard II, I said, "That'swhat I want to do, what I want to be"' Sir Ian McKellen CBE 70 is an award-winning actor known for his film roles in the Lord ofthe Rings trilogy, The Da Vinci Code and Gods and Monsters. Hisextensive theatre ...
That cad has quite a nerve!
Jul 05, 2009; ... Born into theatrical royalty, Sam West made his name playing'linen' parts in Merchant Ivory productions. So how did he come tobe taking on one of this century's biggest corporate villains? What must it be like to have achieved all one's ambitions? SamWest has just turned 43 and ...
For a real taste of Lebanon, go back to the land
Jul 05, 2009; ... A Beirut-based organisation is trying to promote Lebanesetraditions. Its initiatives open up a whole new view of thiscountry, for locals and visitors alike, says Joy Lo Dico My first foray into the Lebanese countryside, when I visited lastautumn, came in the form of an invitation ...
Driving in Europe this summer? Check the rules of the road
Jul 05, 2009; ... Speed limits, insurance, fines ... there's a lot to considerbefore you get behind the wheel of a car abroad. Mark Rowe reports You're off the aircraft and you're thinking that the mostdangerous part of the holiday is behind you. Yet statistics suggestthe opposite is true, ...
Hang in there Manny, your cartoon will warm up soon
Jul 05, 2009; ... The third Ice Age movie subjects its child viewers to too manygrown-up themes before the fun starts Film 2 Ice Age 3 CarlosSaldanha 96 MINS, U Am I Black Enough for You Goran Hugo Olsson 87MINS, 12A Ican't believe that many eight-year-olds worry about how goodthey'll be as ...
Beautiful, brutal, but not quite bulletproof
Jul 05, 2009; ... Johnny Depp underacts and Christian Bale lacks charisma in themuch-hyped 1930s gangster biopic Film Public Enemies Michael Mann140 MINS, 15 There's arguably no theme in cinema quite as fundamental, asprimal, as Cops and Robbers - the genre that Michael Mann has alwaysreturned ...
Showbusiness? Everything about it is appalling
Jul 05, 2009; ... A brilliant, high-speed satire on the commercial theatre takes noprisoners as it lampoons some West End staples Theatre ForbiddenBroadway Menier Chocolate Factory LONDON Ashes Queen Elizabeth HallLONDON Actors have always poked fun at the foibles of commercialtheatre. No doubt ...
No rich uncle, no hope of unearned wealth - just a plain, unhappy affair
Jul 05, 2009; ... Opera Holland Park's passionate 'Boheme' dares to beunsentimental, unfussy and sincere Classical La Boheme Opera HollandPark LONDON Aldeburgh Festival Snape Maltings SUFFOLK A MidsummerNight's Dream Britten Theatre LONDON Simply and effectively staged by Elaine Kidd, Opera ...
Druids, dwarfs, and everything turned up to 11
Jul 05, 2009; ... Somehow a fictional band of metalheads can still attract tens ofthousands almost 25 years later Rock Spinal Tap Wembley Arena LONDONTake That Old Trafford Cricket Ground MANCHESTER There can't be a rock band anywhere who haven't had a copy ofThis Is Spinal Tap on the tour bus. Not ...
View from the inside
Jul 05, 2009 ... Joy Lo Dico goes in search of the real Lebanon, beyond the citylimits of Beirut DRIVERS GUIDE ...
Follow these trails over hills and dales
Jul 05, 2009 ... British breaks Yorkshire What's on Head for the Doncaster Cultural Festival (doncaster voluntaryarts.net) at The Arts Park on 12 July. There'll be free displaysfrom Chinese and Indian dancers, fire-eaters, sword fighters andmore. The Great Yorkshire Show ...
'The challenge is not to save newspapers, but journalism'
Jul 05, 2009; ... More than three weeks after Iran's disputed presidentialelection, at least 33 journalists are behind bars this weekend. Irannow has more journalists in prison than any country in the world,says the charity Reporters Sans Frontiers. Dozens of foreignjournalists were booted out of the ...
Picking at the carrion
Jul 05, 2009; ... The bottom line Why do serious commentators responding to thedeaths of popular cultural icons feel the need to project theirpolitical preoccupations out over the coffin? High minds, lowculture More tussles with the language police Blur and bovarism Johnny Depp comes clean Eagleton's ...
What lies beneath
Jul 05, 2009; ... Plastics threat to UK beaches A tide of hidden filth hascontributed to a huge decline in coastal areas fit for swimming.Emily Dugan reports At first glance Porthtowan beach looks like an advert for BritishTourism. With white sand and turquoise sea bathed in brightsunshine, it ...
Georgia on his mind, Moscow on his back
Jul 05, 2009; ... Shaun Walker meets Mikheil Saakashvili After the disaster of lastsummer's war, the charismatic president of the former Sovietrepublic hopes it won't be sacrificed to improve US-Russianrelations It's the watch that bothers me. Everything else is presidential -the pressed shirt ...
Bugs! The critters eating America's forests
Jul 05, 2009; ... They may be tiny, but they're marching across the US in theirbillions, killing vast swathes of woodland. Graham Mole reports on amodern-day plague America's 4 July bonfires served a dual purpose yesterday. Theyburned the wood of trees destroyed by a trio of bugs that ...
Nothing 'great' about Biggs's train robbery crime
Jul 05, 2009; ... Joan Smith argues that age and illness are not grounds for parole I don't know whether Bruce Reynolds or Ronnie Biggs ever cameacross WH Auden's poem "Night Mail". In rattling stanzas, Audenevoked the rhythm and romance of a mail train hurrying across thecountry at night, carrying ...
Twitter is less than it's cracked up to be
Jul 05, 2009; ... There is nothing magic about the 'new media'. They are justanother way of showing us what politicians are likeEd Balls is on Twitter. Last week, the Children's Secretarywanted the world to know that he emerged from the cool darkness ofthe committee rooms below the House of ...
Forced into crime to fund mum's Chevrolet
Jul 05, 2009 ... NEWS IN BRIEF :: AMERICA An unemployed mother led her 12 and 14-year-old sons and theirfriends to commit at least 20 armed robberies and assaults,including the beating of a teenage boy, to pay her rent and the loanon her ...
'I need something different - maybe another band'
Jul 05, 2009; ... Noel Gallagher reveals he wouldn't mind moonlighting with someoneother than Oasis Wanted: amazingly talented guitarist with GSOH is looking for aband for gigs, albums, but no charity work. Fans who were dismayed this year when Noel Gallagher vowed not torelease another Oasis ...
Manhunt intensifies for east London serial rapist
Jul 05, 2009; ... Police have stepped up the search for a serial sex attacker whohas raped three women and murdered one. The operation is rapidlybecoming one of Britain's biggest manhunts. With the man now linked to up to eight attacks in the east Londonarea, extra detectives have been assigned to ...
Cuts The truth
Jul 05, 2009; ... Public finances Labour vs the Conservatives As Gordon Brown andDavid Cameron argue over spending plans, Jane Merrick and BrianBrady examine the fine print and deliver their verdicts Gordon Brown and David Cameron traded blows for a third weekrunning on who is telling the truth ...
Graduates leave with more debts than knowledge
Jul 05, 2009; ... EDITOR-AT-LARGE On Friday I attended a moving ceremony in Maidstone. Hundreds ofgraduates of all ages, ethnic backgrounds and social backgroundspatiently queued up to receive their degrees from the University ofCreative Arts, where the pass rate is a highly commendable 92 ...
Obama hopes his magic can thaw the frost in Moscow
Jul 05, 2009; ... Even before Barack Obama boards Air Force One tonight to attendthe first fully fledged summit between the US and Russia since 2002,the diplomatic ether between Moscow and Washington is fairlycrackling with the static of both anticipation and latent suspicion. Russia is the first ...
Man found dead beside gun after girl is shot
Jul 05, 2009 ... News in brief :: CRIME A 17-year-old girl from Lincolnshire is in a "serious but stable"condition in hospital after she was shot in the leg during adisturbance that left one man dead. Police found the injuredteenager, who has not been named, after being called to an ...
Mother charged with poisoning daughter
Jul 05, 2009 ... News in brief :: DRUGS The mother of a baby who died from a suspected methadone overdosewas yesterday charged with poisoning her daughter. Fourteen-month-old Holly Agius was found in a "poorly condition" in her home inGloucestershire on 12 January. She later died ...
Harry Potter actor and the not-so-deathly swine flu
Jul 05, 2009 ... News in brief :: HEALTH Harry Potter star Rupert Grint has become the first celebrityvictim of swine flu it emerged yesterday. Grint, 20, who plays RonWeasley, took time out to recover last week but has returned to workafter being given the all-clear. Grint, from ...
Man films tribute to 7/7 victim girlfriend
Jul 05, 2009 ... News in brief :: TERRORISM A man whose former girlfriend was killed in the 7/7 bomb attacksin London will release a film about the effects of terrorism to markthe anniversary of her death on Tuesday. Raj Babbra's Life WithoutBenedetta, features interviews with the ...
Tories accused of hypocrisy as they seek the gay vote
Jul 05, 2009; ... Party's proposed 'blueprint for the family' signals a return toBack to Basics policies, critics claim A row over homophobia in politics escalated last night as theConservative leader, David Cameron, was accused of pushing"Victorian values" on to the 21st-century concept of the ...
Play is suspended
Jul 05, 2009; ... Murray loss defeats us all A fantastic afternoon beckoned, withparties galore and a Pounds 150m boost to the economy. Now allthat's left is that sinking feeling. By Andrew Johnson The tennis posters have come down at the Dunblane Hotel in AndyMurray's home town in Perthshire, ...
'I can't forgive or forget what they did to me'
Jul 05, 2009; ... Special report Forced marriage Kidnapped and drugged Dr HumayraAbedin talks for the first time to Nina Lakhani about theinternational storm that began when she visited her parents inBangladesh An NHS doctor from east London who was held hostage and forcedinto marriage has spoken ...
Earth tremors alarm world leaders on eve of L'Aquila summit
Jul 05, 2009; ... Emergency helicopters will be on standby as the world leadersmeet in the Italian city wrecked by April's earthquakes. JaneMerrick reports The G8 summit The G8 summit in the Italian earthquake-struck city of L'Aquilathis week risks being overshadowed by fears that another ...
A man of brutality and arrogance who knew how to play to American suspicions
Jul 05, 2009; ... The Saddam Hussein interviews are interesting for what theyreveal and what they conceal. Probably right up to the end, Saddamwas talking up the Iranian threat to Iraq, knowing that this wouldconfirm American suspicions of Iran. The Iraqi leader would recallthat a joint front against Iran ...
Police want water cannons to beat back city rioters
Jul 05, 2009; ... Metropolitan and Greater Manchester forces are looking atcontinental-style crowd-control tactics in the wake of the G20demonstrations British mainland police want water cannons to use againstdemonstrators in the face of criticism that conventional crowd-control tactics, such as ...
Heatwave calls pour in to ambulance service
Jul 05, 2009; ... A&E departments across the country saw a substantial rise inelderly patients and children suffering from heat-related conditionslast week, according to the College of Emergency Medicine. Dr John Heyworth, president of the college, said many departmentshad treated between 20 and 30 ...
Cosmen is key to future of National Express
Jul 05, 2009; ... Jorge Cosmen, the deputy chairman at beleaguered transport groupNational Express, is set to play kingmaker as rival FirstGroupcontinues to push for an all-share merger that would create a 2.2bngiant. The Spaniard is also the company's biggest shareholder withnearly 18.7 per cent ...
Greenland gold mine sells for a tiny fraction of last year's $30m asking price
Jul 05, 2009; ... Angus & Ross, the Aim-listed natural resources company, hasbought a gold mine for just 5 per cent of its asking price lastyear. In a sign of how hard the recession has hit the commoditiesmarket, Angus & Ross will end up paying only $1.5m (920,000) to CrewGold Corporation for the ...
Severn Trent pushes for radical water-supply rethink
Jul 05, 2009; ... Severn Trent, the Ftse 100 utility, is pushing parliament and theConservative opposition into a radical rethink over water supply. The company has written to the Environment, Food and RuralAffairs (Efra) select committee and the Shadow Efra Secretary, NickHerbert, ahead of the ...
Lloyd's Names rest easy after court ends threat of personal liability
Jul 05, 2009; ... Thousands of Lloyd's of London "Names" will sleep easierfollowing a ruling in the High Court that ends the threat ofbillions of pounds worth of personal liabilities; 34,000 Names facedhaving to pay billions of pounds to ...
The trainspotter now arriving in the UAE is the late golden boy
Jul 05, 2009; ... Richard Branson's right-hand man. One of Tony Blair's favouritemandarins. Saviour of Britain's crumbling 3,500 secondary-schoolsestate. FTSE 100 chief executive. Coveted by Boris Johnson as hisdeputy mayor. That's quite a career for someone who is still only 43. AndRichard Bowker ...
LonZim meeting fails to ease relations with rebel shareholder AMB Capital
Jul 05, 2009; ... The board of LonZim, the Aim-listed investor of assets inZimbabwe, has met with rebel shareholder AMB Capital in a failedattempt to improve relations between the embattled parties. AMB has called for an extraordinary general meeting to attempt toreplace two of LonZim's four ...
POP
Jul 05, 2009; ... The Duckworth Lewis Method TDLM DIVINE COMEDY/1969 The DLM is an arcane cricket scoring system. It is also the nameof a project by Thomas Walsh and the Divine Comedy's Neil Hannonwhich meditates upon the meaning, mythology and mystery of the gamethat gave the world 20/20 ....
POP
Jul 05, 2009; ... Dan Black Un A&M/POLYDOR An Englishman in Paris, Black balances symphonic pop withlaptronica, putting him roughly equidistant between Patrick Wolf andSam Sparro. The former leader of the much-admired The Servant, Blackhas emerged as a peculiarly redeemable ...
CLASSICAL
Jul 05, 2009; ... Monteverdi Sweet Torment - I Fagiolini etc CHANDOS I Fagiolini's Monteverdi series continues with anotherfascinating and faultlessly executed programme of scherzi andaccompanied and unaccompanied madrigals from 1605-1638. The range ofeffects is startling: from the ...
CLASSICAL
Jul 05, 2009; ... Boely Musique de Chambre - Quatuor Mosaiques LABORIE Half-fossil, half-innovator, organist and composer AlexandrePierre Franois Boly (1785-1858) was the self-appointed guardian ofthe classical style. Under the direction of cellist Christophe Coin,Quatuor Mosaque and ...
SOUL
Jul 05, 2009; ... Teena Marie Congo Square STAX A debut on the great soul label for the veteran all-rounder. Thevoice and writing ain't much; her talent really lies in the fieldsof playing, arranging and producing: she'd be flattered, no doubt,to be taken for a female Prince. The music ...
DVD
Jul 05, 2009; ... Three Monkeys Retail & rental NEW WAVE FILM A politician bribes his driver to take the fall for a hit'n'run;then conducts an affair with the dupe's wife while he's in chokey;then decides he wants nothing more to do with her. End result: noone's happy ...
DVD
Jul 05, 2009; ... The International Retail & rental SONY Corporate bankers as villains? At least there's one aspect of TheInternational that feels contemporary; the rest of this conspiracythriller could have been adapted from a 40-year-old spy novel.Still, as hokey and ...
CRITICS' CHOICES
Jul 05, 2009 ... Classical choice Seven Words, Seven Icons, Seven Cities The Scottish Ensemble,Tenebrae and Cryptic present the world premiere of Nigel Osborne'snew work. (0845 120 7502) Tue; Prima Donna Janis Kelly in RufusWainwright's debut opera. Manchester International Festival (08448154961) ...
Wife blows MI6 chief's cover
Jul 05, 2009 ... The private life of Britain's new spy chief was laid bare on theinternet after his wife published dozens of family photographs andmessages on Facebook. Officials last night removed details of Sir John Sawers and hisfamily from his wife's social networking page after they ...
Banging the drumstick for peace
Jul 05, 2009; ... Bites KFC RIP, or so says Dante Gonzales, aka "Dante Fried Chicken",the New York-based "chef and conceptual artist" who reckons thatdeep-fried drumsticks hold the key to a better world. Since quitting his day job in 2007, Mr Chicken (as we assume he'dlike to be known) has ...
Flip chart
Jul 05, 2009; ... With Harry Potter's sixth big-screen outing only 12 days away, wepresent the debut of Snapes and Ladders. Yes, that's Snapes, as inAlan Rickman's nasty little professor ...