What Not to Do with YouTube

youtube If there’s an unquestionable moral lesson for our era, it’s this: Don’t film yourself committing crimes and post them on YouTube. Los Angeles resident Cyrus Yazdani did just that, and yesterday, he learned that he will have more than three years to think about how colossally stupid that was. According... 

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This week’s new DVD and Blu-ray

Fish Story. No One Knows About Persian Cats; Fish StoryNetwork Releasing DVD; Third Window DVD Music movies have to be one of the trickiest genres to tackle. Anything current can seem dated almost immediately; actors tend to show themselves up as non-musicians, and true-life rock tales are... 

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Radio Review: Jonathan Ross

“Not in torment” . . . Jonathan Ross. Photograph: Brian J. Ritchie/Hotsauce / Rex Towards the end of his nearly 11-year Radio 2 hegemony on Saturday, Jonathan Ross played Creep by Radiohead. You can’t help but note the words. Thom Yorke has such nice diction. “I’m... 

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The Secret of Sherlock Holmes | Theatre review

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... 

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Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are reunited… to do lunch

Rob Bryden and Steve Coogan play food critics in The Trip, Michael Winterbottom’s new sitcom for BBC2. Photograph: BBC/Revolution Michael Winterbottom, the British film director who made Welcome to Sarajevo and 24 Hour Party People – and was criticised for his controversial 9 Songs... 

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