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... 

Another excellent episode . . . The Hospital, Channel 4. Photograph: Channel 4 I have always agreed with Victoria Wood that I wouldn’t be an adolescent again if you bumped my pocket money up to three and six. After viewing the first episode of The Hospital (Channel 4) last night, which... 

The Edinburgh festival receives £2.3m in foundation funding a year. Photograph: Murdo Macleod More than 50 of Scotland’s best-known arts organisations, including the Edinburgh festival and the Traverse theatre, face deep cuts in their grants from the new government arts agency, Creative... 

Reuters Oksana Grigorieva and Mel Gibson in happier times earlier this year. In yet another shocking rant caught on tape, embattled actor Mel Gibson tells ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva that he will burn down her house after demanding sex from her. In the tape obtained by RadarOnline.com, an incensed, out... 

Fuzzy logic: From Hell and V For Vendetta creator turned underground publisher and musician, Alan Moore. Illustration: matttaylor.co.uk It’s not exactly on a par with his previous triumphs, but Astounding Weird Penises is as close to a new Alan Moore comic as you’re likely to get...