12 h. ago Master of the Mix: DJ Michael London honored for four decades in the music business

Master of the Mix: DJ Michael London honored for four decades in the music business  Montgomery Advertiser

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17 h. ago ‘Liam Gallagher is funnier than most standups!’: Is comedy the new rock’n’roll – or vice versa?

Oasis’s tour gobbled up Edinburgh audiences while fringe comics put on shows about Britpop and Arctic Monkeys. The music industry and the funny business could be more entwined than ever‘Comedy is the new rock’n’roll!” This line, variously attributed to a defunct listings mag, a member of the Comedy Store Players and Janet Street-Porter, became common currency in the 1990s, when comedy gatecrashed arenas with Newman and Baddiel’s maiden Wembley gig in 1993. Had the art of making people laugh eclipsed – in size, public enthusiasm, cultural cachet – the art of making people groove?It feels like a quaint conversation in light of the arrival of Oasis’s mega-tour in Edinburgh this month, which triggered panic among standups at the gazumping of their fringe audience. But has comedy returned to playing second fiddle to its sexier, better-loved big brother? Or are such distinctions meaningless in a cultural landscape unrecognisable from the 1990s? Continue reading...

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33 h. ago Alicia Vikander on Making Her London Stage Debut, Battling Mom Guilt, and Life With Michael Fassbender

Alicia Vikander on Making Her London Stage Debut, Battling Mom Guilt, and Life With Michael Fassbender  Vogue

Events

9 d. ago London cycling vigilante pushes bike into car in incident with driver

Michael van Erp, known as Cycling Mikey, posted a five-minute video showing him attempting to stop a motorist from driving past roadworks on Paddenswick Road in Hammersmith

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2 w. ago Darth Vader lightsaber expected to sell for millions goes on display in London

The prop is expected to fetch between one and three million dollars at auction.

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2 w. ago Stella Rimington: The spy who brought MI5 out of the shadows

Britain’s first woman spymaster saw an era of greater openness in the intelligence services.

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