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Little Jimmy Scott

17/08/2013

One of Cleveland’s oldest musical sons, still pleasing audiences in his eighties is the incredibly gifted Little Jimmy Scott. ...

Lloyd Yates : Bring Back The Life

17/08/2013

'Don’t be concerned about getting that Mumford feeling. There is real poetry on this disc' ...

We Are Not All Trayvon Martin

17/08/2013

Why tackling what happened to Trayvon Martin requires more than shouting his name and pretending you are the same....

Nikki Sudden on T-Rex : Interview

16/08/2013

'I don’t have a lot of memorabilia now; I’ve sold most of it. I don’t believe in fans hoarding things' The late Nikki Sudden talks T-Rex...

So Buff. Hypermasculinity and Sports Mags

15/08/2013

'Male athletes are rarely, if ever, depicted in sexualized, submissive, objectifying or non-athletic positions in sports magazines.' Until now....

A dormant thread in old blues (Vintage Trouble)

15/08/2013

'All bullshit aside, these are bands that are taking the road that we've taken, which is real raw recorded music'. Vintage Trouble talk. ...

Mediterranean Diet also Prevents Strokes

14/08/2013

Already known for preventing heart disease, the Mediterranean diet is now shown to prevent strokes....

Philip K Dick : An Adapted Man

14/08/2013

As far as adaptations of Philip K Dick’s work go there are not as many as you might think...

Fifty Shades of Domestic Abuse

13/08/2013

The main characters' relationship in the best-selling novel Fifty Shades of Grey, for example, helps perpetuate the problem of intimate partner violence against women...

Green Tea Protest Lemonade

13/08/2013

Drink the green, clean your pipes, cool yourself off and beat back the military-industrial complex in one fell swoop with Trebuchet's Green Tea Lemonade....

Johnny No-Friends is Mr Niceguy

12/08/2013

Children who overestimate their popularity are less likely to be bullies than those who underestimate or hold more accurate assessments of their social standing...

Hanging Offence : Giulia Demichelis

12/08/2013

'I often see hesitation in trusting the professionalism of the art business.' Independent curator Giulia Demichelis answers Trebuchet's questions...

Avoiding Brain-Damaged Cheerleaders

11/08/2013

neurocognitive assessment could be a useful tool to evaluate when cheerleaders with concussion have returned to normalized baseline measures...

A picture of Simon Friend from The Levellers

The Levellers (Simon Friend) : Interview

11/08/2013

'Certainly I think we’ve been ignored. Or not even ignored – shunned' - Simon Friend of The Levellers makes up for some lost media attention. ...

How to Achieve a Well-Balanced Gut

10/08/2013

Healthy bio-flow. Or how to have good poos. In the absence of kale-shakes, Trebuchet news reports....

Less Than Zero Hours?

10/08/2013

As the number of workers on 'zero-hours' contracts is estimated at over a million, new fees for employment tribunal claims put justice out of reach for many...

Sexy Shrooms : Psychoactive Evolutions

09/08/2013

Shrooms need family too. New research into the DNA structure and evolution of psychoactive mushrooms....

Womad 2013

09/08/2013

Has the cross pollination of sound led to a syncretic culture? True to form, WOMAD 2013 poses as many questions as it answers....

Why Bullies Become Businessmen

08/08/2013

Greed is good. Research shows anti-social tendencies exist throughout the lives of successful entrepreneurs....

Wings of Wax and a Missed Payday

08/08/2013

If the pink beam was indeed a vital message from beyond, then Phillip K Dick proved to be a totally unsuitable transmission device for it....

Isolating the Pain of Sunburn

07/08/2013

Isolating the Pain of Sunburn. Now a scientific possibility. Question is, should we?...

Loitered Lens : Mud Morganfield

07/08/2013

'dressed like a high-class gangster in his high pin-stripe suit with a silky handkerchief in the top pocket'. Mud Morganfield...

Pompeii Graffiti : Interview

06/08/2013

Songs about falling in love with lesbians, a song about Battlestar Galactica, songs about losing friends, songs about high school romance, songs about feeling like a loser...

Practise Makes Perfect

05/08/2013

Scientists find out exactly why practise makes perfect...

Hanging Offence : Vitrine

05/08/2013

'maybe it is time to start thinking about new ways of talking about how art operates and how we define quality'...

Shopaholics are Sad

04/08/2013

Shopaholics are displaying deeper issues of self-esteem and depression, according to San Francisco scientists...

Randall Dunn Interview

04/08/2013

I don't think that the world has become a horrible place. I think that we should be more aware of now rather than some idea of the future. ...

Sometimes the Stars Rain Down Hard

03/08/2013

Off World, a new and unexpected threat to Phil’s razor-edged peace of mind was lurking in the wings. Its name was Blade Runner...

Why ‘Chav’ is a Feminist Issue

03/08/2013

The discourse around ‘chavs’ can be a cover for denigrating the social agency and sexual autonomy of working-class women, as well as wider political attacks on the working class. ...