How they looked last time … Pete Doherty and Carl Barat on stage in 2004. Photograph: J Quinton/WireImage The Libertines announced plans today for their first full gig since they revealed that they were re-forming. The band, which centres around the songwriting partnership of Pete Doherty and Carl Barât, will play a warm-up show in [...]

Steven Spielberg, whose new project War Horse begins shooting in the UK next month. Photograph: Jean-Pierre Muller/AFP/Getty Images The invite was posted and the place was set, and yet Steven Spielberg turned out to be conspicuous by his absence at last week’s Clinton wedding in New York. Today it was revealed just where the Oscar-winning [...]

Ayahuasca is traditionally taken in the presence of a shaman. Photograph: Reuters Have this generation’s crop of hippy-dippy indie artists found a new drug to match their music? Devendra Banhart, the Bees and Klaxons have in recent weeks namechecked ayahuasca, a so-called “plant medicine” taken in the Peruvian rainforest over intense 10-day periods. Klaxons’ Jamie [...]

Tantastic! Dale Winton shows off his glowing complexion Looking back at her photographed skin since the Spice Girls, it’s possible to plot Victoria Beckham’s journey to infamy in various shades of citrus. Before she married David, Victoria was white, if bronzered on the clavicles. The wedding pictures from 1999 are a festival of bright fake [...]