16 Jun

John and Jen Trip Up the Border

News confirms that the couple are on their way back to Los Angeles after spending a romantic weekend in Mexico. Their private jet is expected to touch down at Van Nuys Airport sometime tonight.
The Friends With Money star and the Heavier Things artist landed south of the border on Friday and then shuttled over to [...]

07 May

Longer trip looks ideal for Doctor Fremantle

Sir Michael Stoute often runs his classic prospects at Chester and Doctor Fremantle rates a good bet to provide him with a second win in three years in the Bank of America Chester Vase (2.45) there today.
A five-length winner of a maiden at Nottingham last autumn, Doctor Fremantle was heavily backed to make a winning [...]

01 Feb

Kot in the Act: Shows you can’t miss

1 DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist: Few DJs work from a wider palette than Shadow and Cut Chemist, two sonic adventurers who draw on a century of music to stitch together epic aural journeys.Friday at Park West, 322 W. Armitage Ave., $30; 312-559-1212.2 Gallows: Frank Carter attacks songs the way a pit bull digs into [...]

31 Jan

Night tales: Berlin, LA, Stockholm, Pattaya, Rome

We met James in a Lonely Planet-approved place called Dicke Wirtin, in Berlin, after a day spent looking at the graves of Bertolt Brecht, Fichte and Hegel in the rain, and feeling very profound.
James was a big fat man in his 40s. He wore a broad-brimmed felt hat, a sort of Driza-Bone coat and a [...]

31 Jan

Rename Egmont Mt Hillary

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In Kiwi terms, this is as big as the royal miscalculation over the death of Lady Diana.
The palaces initial belief then was that the outpouring of grief was [...]

31 Jan

Rafting in Westland

Seated high in the rafts stern, Paul Button narrows his eyes as he searches for the best line, the smartest angle to take us safely through the maelstrom of tumbling, turbulent white water ahead.
Then the urgent command: Forward paddle, go hard.
Now our chief guides paddle is flashing like a conductors baton. Wed better do the [...]

28 Jan

Arsenal’s Gallas expects Spurs to flounder in League Cup

William Gallas believes the fear factor can help Arsenal reach the League Cup final and extend their long unbeaten run against Tottenham on Tuesday.
Gallas’s side travel to White Hart Lane for the League Cup semi-final second leg with the tie delicately poised at 1-1.
But while Tottenham feel they are slight favourites on home turf, Gunners [...]