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Articles from April 2008
How to Live Like Lola
If you’re blessed with a younger sibling, nephew, niece or offspring, you’ll already know about Charlie And Lola. Lauren Child’s deliciously lovely books feature lo-fi, cut-out illustrations, mad shouty typefaces, perverted syntax and are too, too...
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Food shortage bad, gardening schemes good
Condi Rice blames China and India for eating better food (greedy greedy second-world countries!) then concedes the race to power the planet on biofuels might also have cut into agricultural resources. Oh, and the rising cost of oil – BP and Shell ...
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Clip Of The Day: Paula Abdul gets confused
X Factor is never as exciting as American Idol. Not even Journey South could top the sheer massive showiness of Cowell's US odyssey. Which is why we find this clip - in which Paula Abdul criticises a contestant's second song, even though he hasn't...
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Revolutionary women
For every Che Guevara, Leon Trotsky and Robespierre, there's a lady equivalent who hasn't got half of the history lessons, dedicated biographies and iconic T-shirts they deserve. Today, in the spirit of 1968 and all that, we celebrate the politica...
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#45: Hearts Revolution
Of all the stunts new acts have pulled to get their music heard, blasting it from a convoy of ice cream vans has got to be a first. This NYC-based duo dreamed it up after meeting in a West Hollywood hotel, when Lo (who was already running an ice c...
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'Mileygate': the saga continues
Back-baring 15-year-old Miley Cyrus has come under fire over the past few days, thanks to that Annie Leibowitz shoot which saw her, well, just getting her back out, and sporting slightly unbrushed hair. Miley's even been made to apologise to the p...
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Thirty years of Virago
It's hard for a geeky bookworm like me to imagine that there might have been a world before by-women, for-women publishers Virago, but as May approaches we are popping open the pink cava to celebrate the 30th birthday of their Virago Modern Classi...
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Women's Institute gets modish makeover
Who'd have thought it? Today the Telegraph reports that the Women's Institute is thriving among young ladies in London's "self-consciously modish" east end. The Shoreditch Sisters, mostly under 25, get together, to knit, embroider, make things and...
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Agyness Deyn rocks
We've already given you the full lowdown on Scarlett Johansson's rock & roll stylings (you can see her first video, for Falling Down, here), so we're intrigued to hear that Agyness Deyn has also become a celebrity multi-tasker, singing on a brand ...
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Weekly Mag Report: April 29
The It's Bloody Raining And Cold So You Can Stick Your Oh-So-Original Bikini Body Special (And Pass The Cake) Award goes to... EVERY MAGAZINE. Seriously. Bikini body off. However, Look gets a free pass for featuring the actually quite flattering 5...
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