Alasdair Roberts: ‘subversive, inspired and inventive’. Photograph by Jean-Marc Luneau Alasdair Roberts is an angular, tentative presence, thin as twigs and full of caveats and quiet amusement, but the cerebral star of what he would never call “vogueish nu-folk” music is sure... 

Sting: more musically talented than Garry Kasparov. Photograph: Brian Rasic/Rex Features Finally, you’ll be impossibly grateful to learn that Sting has thrown you a bone, in the form of an interview with the New York Times. As is traditional in such cases, we must congratulate the interviewer... 

Danielle Lineker: My New Stepfamily. Photograph: BBC/Emilie Sandy/BBC I’ve been conned, lured in on false pretences. I mean, what would you expect from BBC 3′s “Adult Season”? Exactly, me too. But instead I’ve got this lady here going on about the problems of being... 

Lindsay Lohan plays a ‘gun-licking, drug-obliterated party girl in a nun’s outfit’ in Machete. Photograph: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation/Everett Collection If you look at the US box office this morning, you might think Machete’s successes have been modest – it opened...