Top of the plops … Kings of Leon Kings of Leon were forced to cancel a show last week after being showered with pigeon droppings. The flock of avian music critics brought the St Louis concert to a cooing halt after just three songs. “You may enjoy being shit on,” explained... 

Cash or credit? … Leonardo DiCaprio, left, and Ellen Page in Inception. Photograph: Warner Bros/AP It may be one of the summer’s darker ironies that, as government ministers vie to find out quite how little can be spent on the nation’s health and education, the film industry... 

Clockwise from left: Julie Myerson, Lethal Bizzle, Grayson Perry, Maggi Hambling, Sara Cox. Photograph: Composite Stephen Fry, writer and actor They were monstrous, magnificent, traumatic, explosive, lyrical, emotionally sodden, eternal, shameful and fantastically alive. What I wish I’d... 

Cake Boss. I am currently on a diet and being drawn to Cake Boss (Discovery Real Time) like a moth to a flame. A plump, unaerodynamic moth skidding and bumping between increasingly brief airborne periods towards a flame rendered in vanilla sponge and a marmalade glaze, yes, but the simile... 

© Judy Eddy/WENN Following the release of Pitbull-assisted single “DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love”, another new danceable song from Usher rolls out for free stream. Coming from the production hands of top-notch music maker Polow da Don, it’s called...