Flying high … the Stool Pigeon’s existence is a cause for celebration Does anybody out there like the idea of a music paper that is equally comfortable pontificating about Nas, Roky Erickson, Marc Almond and Holy Fuck, has the reassuringly newsprint-y feel of Melody Maker in the late 70s, and doesn’t actually cost any money [...]

Dickon Stainer, managing director of Decca, signing the recording contract with the nuns. Photograph: Chris O’Donovan/PA A group of Benedictine nuns who live in complete seclusion in the South of France are set to become divas of pop after signing a deal with Universal Music, the leading record company behind Lady Gaga and Amy Winehouse. [...]

A scene from Inception: Leonardo DiCaprio suggests that people see it twice to understand the plot. Photograph: Stephen Vaughan/Warner Bros ‘Dad, what do you think it meant when the totem wobbled like that?” Many parents will be asked a tricky question like this as they leave the cinema after watching Inception. Some will inevitably answer, [...]