Lost at Sea, Jon Ronson's latest book is an incredible journey into the surreal. Here he speaks to us about anxieties, psychopaths and how he finds writing "gruelling"...
Helen Fielding has announced she's writing a new Bridget Jones novel. Please pass me a shotgun, some warfarin and a baseball bat, I'm going in...
His biggest ever exhibition is currently on show in Paris and after regularly forgetting the quality of the work on offer, it's a wonderful reminder of the enigmatic artistry of Edward Hopper.
Jonathan Rendall recently passed away after a hedonistic life, and if you've never read his work then you're in for a treat...
In 1986, the Canadian professional gambler had silicone implants to win a bet. What's stranger is that he's turned down $10,000 to have them removed.
This February the Tate Modern opens the UK's first retrospective of pop artist Roy Lichtenstein in 20 years. With around 125 works on display, th...
He gave the world Hammer Time, made himself laughably rich and built a trouser-shaped swimming pool. But how else did the Reverend MC chuck 50 m...
There’s no denying that this lip-syncing saga is a saddening blip on an otherwise squeaky clean record. Bey, why did you do this to us?
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Bored of perfecting your 'duck face'? Fancy a new Facebook profile picture? Why not try recreating one of these ace portraits.
Rest In Peace Michael Winner. You took the piss out of life like all of us dream of doing. But few will ever have w...
Half plastic surgery, half bonehead with shades on, Speidi is the combination of two Hollywood reality TV stars tha...
The swinging 60s in the Sunshine State - California. A decade of sex, drink, drugs and debauchery soundtracked by T...
Ryan Gosling can currently be found wowing audiences around the world with his performances in Drive and Crazy Stup...
From the Jack magazine archive: When Elvis and Ali met for the first time in 1974, there was only one place it could be; Viva Las Vegas.
Remember the guy who went crazy on Piers Morgan on CNN last week? Here we try to identify exactly what it is that turns him into a dragon faster ...
After Julie Burchill defended Suzanne Moore's "Brazillian transsexual" article by calling transsexuals "a bunch of dicks in chicks' clothing", I'...
Whatever you do, do not try to tell the hip-hop beauty that is Nicki Minaj that she's a pop artist (even though she is), because things will get ...
In the five years since he died, the legendary daredevil's reputation as a bona fide loon has remained intact. Here he is on injury, death and being reincarnated as a horse...
From the Bradford Monk to Purple Aki and Lenny the Tramp, the one thing we're not short of in the UK is the local n...
As a friend, and neighbour, of Hunter S. Thompson, Wayne Ewing knew the good doctor better than most. Here he revea...
As a gay man I'd like to set the record straight *coughs* once and for all, so that I'll be able to join in a round...
You think Gordon Ramsey swears a lot, he's got nothing on Keith Floyd. The boisterous chef was on vintage form in t...
He was a fine footballer, a political writer, was incarcerated at the infamous San Quentin prison and inspired the underprivileged youth of Carli...
Chris Bonington is a bearded hero who scaled the hardest climbs going. I'm a clean shaven coward who admired from a distance.
Ask most people about soldiers, surf and poisoned arrows and they will immediately think of Apocalypse Now. But long before the Vietnam War lived...
He’d only intended to go for a piss. But now Jack Nelson was spread-eagled on the deck of the St Arcadius, smashed under the steering quadrant ...
My obsession with celebrity sex tapes has hit a bit of blip as there simply aren’t enough. Here are a few I wish ...
Magnus Walker's mission in life is to collect one Porsche 911 from every year of their production, from 1964 to 197...
Not a conventional beauty by any stretch but she could hunt for my bargain any day of the week...
Size KKK and counting, the owner of the world's biggest boobs shows no sign of stopping...
It’s 25 years since Dennis Potter’s masterpiece, The Singing Detective, premiered on the BBC. This vintage interview from 1986 shows Dirty Dennis to be in fine fettle...
On the afternoon of July 2nd 2004 I was, like everyone else, absorbing the news that Marlon Brando had passed away the previous day. Then the phone went. On the line was a friend whose love for Brando’s best work burned as intensely as my love for Brando’s best work.
B.R Newell left behind a business card any man would be proud to call their own. But was he really a ballad singing soldier of fortune?
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Before his death yersterday aged 89, I interviewed Sir Patrick Moore about Neil Armstrong, time travel, Lunar space...
All children, if possible, need their fathers in their lives. As parents they have a duty to be there whenever they...
It's 31 years to the day that John Lennon was gunned down by Mark Chapman in New York, what is it with America and ...
In fact Man's Best Friend doesn't even cover it, how's about the best friend you...
Sanctions, condemnation from outside and the threat of conflict have been a cons...
Crap beer, mobile phones and kettle chips - going to gigs in 2013 is crap.
From Detroit to the UK via Chicago, meet one of hip hop's most talented new beat...
Nearly 30 years after they stormed out of London in a haze of synth pop and soci...
The boy from Chicago's latest album is a dark affair, and marks a new phase in h...
I really want to write a great dystopian novel where all female victims of crime...
We made our way down to New Mexico expecting midnight scares and nut jobs galore...
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After six years without an Eredivisie title, PSV Eindhoven hope club legend Phil...
The great Bret Easton Ellis on sex, drugs, being gay, clothes, skin disease, the...
Like the sound of Nick Cave and Morricone doing the soundtrack to a Sergio Leone...
It's been branded the Capital's biggest eyesore but the Barbican Centre, like th...
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Guaranteed to make you karate chop your windpipe...
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Tonight is game six of the NBA finals, one more win for the San Antonio Spurs an...
Before the Punks, the Mods and the Casuals, the streets of Victorian Manchester ...