The following is based on a lecture given at the New York Public Library in December 2008.
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I am very excited to be interviewing our exciting new discovery via Skype, as it feels very 21st Century (thoroughly modern Millie me!) and will enable me to get a look at the intriguing woman from the images. It is also free, - we like a bit of freeness. A...

Slinky Sunbeam, by name and by nature, is an unashamed scenester. But with his charisma, looks, energy and careful splatters of naivity there is no one more welcome to work the 'scene' than him. "What scene is she fucking well going on about?" You cry...Why...

"Goldierocks Top Tips to jet setting in style"
By DJ Goldierocks

DJ and blonde-haired rock'n'roll vixen Sam Hall, aka Goldierocks spends six months a year trekking from field t...

Damilola's amazing and intuitive illustrations are a very important part of I Bring You Tilbury Town. Here's his story...  

You and Ronke were fostered by the same family and ...

Let's celebrate our majestic mother tongue. As my previously slow shuffle towards that Freedom Pass speeds up by the day, I thought I'd share what's fresh right now. Just in case there's a few other confused old duffers out there, having managed to crank up...

I have just come off a marathon session on www.theskinnywebsite.com (well it makes a change from my borderline psychotic obsession with eBay) and I feel utterly nauseated. Initially it was primarily to scoff, and it IS absolutely as vile as you can imagine...

Everyone seems happy to see that Paris Hilton got what she deserved by going to jail. Yes, she broke the law. No, she wasn't above the law. Yes, she did the time. These particular issues obviously aren't up for debate within society. Send her to the guil...

Phamous69 was lucky enough to be granted a whole half-hour with celebrated documentary photographer Martha Cooper. Martha is famous for her portrayal of street kids playing amongst the bombed-out ruins of 1970's Lower East Side in New York City, catching t...

Shopping has transformed into a genuine national pastime in England in the recent years. To state the obvious, we have magazines such as Vogue, Elle and Marie Claire that is a direct assault to convince readers that they need the "it" bag, to adorn themsel...

There are dirty secrets and there are dirty secrets. That's to say, kinks are acceptable in modern life, just as long as they're the right ones. Wife swapping, bum sex and light Sadism and Masochism is okay. Torture, water sports and transvestism is 50/50...

VAMPS and VIRGINS
The Evolution of American Pin-Up
Photography 1860-1960 through March 2005

Based on works from serious collector Mark Rotenberg, Vamps and Virgins offer a fa...

Ron Jeremy passed his torch to Sex and the City's Samantha Jones. You know, the blonde one, played by published sex-advice author and Porky's starlet Kim Catrall. Follow me here.

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For the last few years, the female arse has been jiggling in our collective cultural faces and wiggling its way into British consciousness. Page 3 girls have pointed their balmy batties at the punters; pert popstars have gyrated in slutty shorts on MTV and ...

Well we just knew you'd enjoy the stunning pictures of Terry de Havillands shoes as worn and photographed by the equally stunning Emma Summerton, and thought you'd want to know more about the creative team behind these masterpieces.In spite of being so phen...

Ladies, please, its GOT TO STOP! Enough! Look in the mirror and repeat these words: "I am not Carrie Bradshaw. In fact, I don't even live in New York. Constantly professing a deep addiction to shoes will not make either of these things come true for me and ...

When it comes to buying sex toys most of us are pretty clued up and know what we're looking for. Yet the majority are tacky, novelty items that aren't tested properly and pose a potential health risk. Coco de Mer has won awards for its non-toxic policies a...

In the early 1960s, a former fashion illustrator named Barbara Hulanicki, along with her husband, Stephen Fitz-Simon, set up a small, homespun mail-order clothing business, which they named Biba's Postal Boutique. So successful and original were their desi...

I've been a non-smoker for years and years, yet now, perversely, when the prevailing mood has finally caught up with me, ciggies banned everywhere and so on...I find myself feeling drawn to smoking again! Guess it started with a scene in the German movie D...

The most notorious US porn queen of the 70s is undoubtedly Linda Lovelace, tonsil-bashing starlet of Deep Throat renown. However, in the very same decade, Britain fostered its own icon of smut, in the form of Mary Millington. Phamous69 probes the rapid ...

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