Quiffs So pretty on the lovely Imelda May (above), so manly on Mark Kermode. Rockabilly returns. Again.
Hugh Jackman at the Oscars Wolverine in a tuxedo. What’s not to like?
800 years of oppression Always handy to have in the back pocket when playing at Croker.
Irish pork and bacon At times like this, a nation needs its sausages.
My Name Is Earl Back for another series. We missed you, boy.
Mickey Rourke Nobody’s perfect. And at least he went mad on his own money.
Animal movies for grown-ups First the dreaded Marley Me, now Wendy And Lucy opens in Dublin’s Lighthouse cinema on Friday.
Complaining About traffic, or the weather, or tribunals, or anything, in fact, other than “you know what”.
Dramatic voyeurism See the rehearsal room, go behind the scenes and Twitter the Project Arts Centre production of Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer at www.solemnmass.ie. The play opens on March 9th.
Sophia Loren at the Oscars What the hell happened, Sophia?
Facebook intervention In the UK, one in four interviewers now checks out job candidates on Facebook. When they asked you to show them your credentials, that mooning photo your mate took wasn’t what they had in mind.
Strikes, marches . . . and you thought Reeling In The Years was a history programme.
The secret skiers Just back from the slopes, with the best snow in more than a decade, and they’re keeping damn quiet about where they got the tan and that dicky knee.
Barack’s foul mouth Recordings of Obama cursing like your auntie Philomena after her Christmas brandy have surfaced on the internet (taken from the audio version of his book).