US newsScott Brown: From Cosmo centrefold to Massachusetts senatorRepublican lawyer who has won Ted Kennedy's seat reveals details of colourful pastScott Brown, who described himself as a "long shot" only last week, has come a long way since posing as a Cosmopolitan centrefold when he was a student.
A wild youth who liked Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, and a self-confessed "jerk" whose mother was "on welfare, a little bit", the 50-year-old lawyer has revealed how he was arrested for stealing albums from a store in Salem, Massachusetts, when he was 12. Read More...
Pass notesBreakfastA new high-street kebab offering has been described as a ‘gamechanger’. But can it challenge the popularity of a fried breakfast?
Name: The breakfast kebab.
Age: Brand new.
Appearance: Like a kebab, but for breakfast.
Surely any kebab can be breakfast if you eat it at breakfast time? Perhaps, but this is a purpose-built breakfast kebab – a wrap containing chicken or beef with egg, tomato and a side of hash brown “bites”, available from 7am. Read More...
The ObserverPop and rockReview(Rock Action)
Glasgow’s Swinton twins keep things simple, with the odd flourish, on their quietly contemplative second album
Post-rock titans Mogwai have signed several very good albums to their Rock Action label recently: Kathryn Joseph’s superlative for you who are the wronged, the magnificently glum Arab Strap comeback As Days Get Dark, and Strap spin-off Lichen Slow’s debut, Rest Lurks. Now we can luxuriate in Cloth’s latest collection of gentle guitar pop, thanks to Glasgow twins Rachael and Paul Swinton. Read More...