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JONATHAN PENNER David Cronenberg © Ian Welch, Welchtoons.com David Cronenberg arrived on the world’s cinema screens with a viscous splash. His unmistakable Cartesian horror films Shivers,…

Memphis, Tennessee was only 90 miles west of Jackson, my childhood home. But Memphis was as far away as the north pole in my mind. The history that we were given about it was done in light pencil…

I'm here in Los Angeles to interview the artist Paul McCarthy, I tell a taxi driver ona freeway past the skyscrapers of downtown. He gets really excited the veteran video, performance, body…

In the mid-1980s, a new revolution spurred by the Macintosh home computer, introduced in 1984, took Crouwel's experiment further. A novel aesthetic, supported by the ability…

Are single mothers biting off more than they can chew? When I was pregnant with my second child, I was aware that there were ways in which

On the sleeve notes he writes: "Ghost On The Canvas is the last studio record of new songs that I plan to make. I've been saying it to friends and family, but now that it's in writing it really seems final." In June, Campbell revealed he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease six months earlier and that he was going to do a farewell tour before retiring. The announcement was shocking in its bluntness. Many of us still remember Glen Campbell as the eternally youthful hunk with huge shoulders or the naive boy-man who stars alongside John Wayne in True Grit. Glen Campbell wasn't made for growing old.

Every night, on the corner beside my apartment in Greenwich Village, two words inflame or intoxicate the sky. One is red, the other green, so they imitate the universal code for stop and go,…

A star is born. And, less than a second later, it dies. On a drab science park just outside the Oxfordshire village of Culham, some of the world's leading physicists stare at a monitor to…