Cocaine, guns, sex and knife play — all part of life behind the scenes on the show “House M.D.” This according to a new lawsuit filed by a bitter ex-employee. In a lawsuit, filed in L.A. County Superior Court, a former assistant prop master named Carl Jones claims he was fired from the... 

Prog rock – the music that refused to die. Illustration by Jiro Bevis. At the end of 2008, the journalist Jerry Ewing pitched an idea for a new magazine to a publishing company. His idea was a magazine dedicated entirely to progressive rock, long reviled in the critical mainstream as... 

Who’d have thought Madness prannying around had anything to do with Zulu earplugs? Photograph: Matthew Fearn/PA Another week, another set of fascinating anthropological indie questions to wade through. Thanks for all the posts and remember – if you have a question you’d like me... 

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in vampire movie The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Photograph: Allstar/Summit Entertainment A teenage vampire is not the obvious choice of inspiration for a range of men’s underpants. But Robert Pattinson, or R Patz as the star of The Twilight Saga is known... 

Rolfe Johnson in The Return of Ulysses for the ENO in 1992. A former boy soprano and farm manager, he sang hymns to his cows. Photograph: Robbie Jack/Corbis One of the most attractive and intelligent tenors from the 1970s onwards, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, who has died aged 69, tackled a very...