Tina Fey is A Good Comedy Thing, obviously. But sometimes – just sometimes – there are parts of you that need refreshing which a good girl from Pennsylvania just can’t reach. And for those times, there’s Chelsea Handler. Handler is a New Jersey-born stand-up comedian with three comic... 

Commanding … Peter Egan in The Secret Of Sherlock Holmes. Photograph: Tristram Kenton The premise behind Jeremy Paul’s 1988 play is reasonable enough – elementary, even. Since Sherlock Holmes possesses one of the more fascinating minds in literature, he is ripe for psychoanalysis. The... 

Home-clubber. Illustration: Jon & Mick/moderntoss.com That Amazing Camping Trip, Appleby It’s heartwarming to have seen this annual summer camping trip grow in popularity due solely to word-of-mouth recommendation, much like the sporadic and nomadic Mancunian club night That Amazing... 

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... 

AP Feb. 4, 2010: Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva arrive at the “Edge Of Darkness” Premiere in Paris. LOS ANGELES — Mel Gibson is heard using a racial epithet and calling his ex-girlfriend a “whore” in a recording released by a celebrity news website Friday. The two-minute recording...