Articles from February 2008
#4: SoKo
Today we bring you adorable French singer Soko, aka Stephanie Sokolinski. She's as cute as a button.
There is a demo of a song called I Will Never Love You More on her MySpace. It’s about all the things she loves more than her boyfriend and in...
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New Film Friday: 29 Feb
From basketball to bank heists to wordy familial misery, this week's new releases have it covered. We'd go Margot, Bank Job, Semi-Pro, Husband, in that order, but only because we're suckers for Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Margot At The Wedding (15)...
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Clip Of The Day: Gossip do Aaliyah
This cover has been knocking around for aeons, but the Gossip's take on Aaliyah's sublime Are U That Somebody? still gives me the shivers. It'll be on the band's new album, Live In Liverpool (out in April), along with their infamous version of Car...
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Schoolboy-themed cafe launches in Japan
Nothing like a spot of mutual sexual objectification. Last week we learned how the Japanese male obsession with schoolgirls grows apace, but did you know that one of the biggest trends in manga is for boy-love tales, featuring doe-eyed, fragile la...
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Beauty industry sells youth to pre-youth market
Cake? Too carb-heavy. Fizzy pop? Bad for the skin. Better get your six-year-old daughter a makeover for her birthday. A new NY Times piece (which we picked up via Jezebel) reports that spas are beginning to target six to nine year olds with mani-p...
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NME Awards: who won what
The BAFTAs! The Brits! The bloody Oscars! It's been awards season forever, but before festival season swoops in and picks up the baton, last night's NME Awards rounded things off nicely.
Gavin & Stacey's James Corden and Matt Horne hosted the ...
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Dear Lesley Douglas...
In the run-up to Girl Friday next Friday (that's March 7 from 5.30, keen readers) we had a thought. Who better to invite to our big free event at the Southbank than 6Music controller Lesley Douglas? After all, a lot of you have been more than keen...
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February 28th, 2008
America's Next Top Homeless Person
You've got to love Tyra Banks, if only for the photoshoot concepts she dares to use on America's Next Top Model. Remember the time the girls had to work it as the victims on a crime scene? Dead girls are SO on trend.
Anyway, Ty-Ty's at it agai...
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#3: The Wave Pictures
The Wave Pictures is a nice name isn't it? To this sensitive soul, it
conjures up images of soft, rolling seas, gentle afternoons alone watching beautiful films, and strange old scientific diagrams that smell of old schoolbooks. These things I li...
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The Lipster's Girl Friday show: exclusive full preview (almost)
London Lipsters. We’ve been teasing you with morsels of information about our Girl Friday gig, so now here’s a heartier meal.
It’s happening at the South Bank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on Friday 7 March and will be ushering in Internationa...
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