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How to cook perfect garlic bread

Posted by The Guardian on Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 at 6:07 am.

Are you an old-school supermarket baguette fan, do you prefer a simple Italian-style toast or have you your own approach to combining cloves and loaves?

Style Women

Thousands join girl in urging Seventeen magazine to publish unedited images

Posted by The Guardian on Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 at 6:06 am.

Julia Bluhm, 14, a ballet dancer and aspiring activist, says she'd like one spread a month that shows bodies that aren't 'fake'

Epicurean

Cat cafés and doggy dining rooms

Posted by The Guardian on Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 at 7:30 am.

How do you feel about sharing your dining space with a few friendly quadrupeds?

Arts

Sacha Baron Cohen empties ‘Kim Jong-il’s ashes’ over Ryan Seacrest on Oscars red carpet

Posted by The Guardian on Sunday, February 26th, 2012 at 11:19 am.

Dressed as his character from The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen has emptied an urn labelled as containing the ashes of Kim Jong-il over TV host Ryan Seacrest at the 84th Academy Awards

News

Breakfast with Stephen Fry

Posted by The Guardian on Saturday, January 21st, 2012 at 3:32 pm.

The fruit on the table was uneaten – but Stephen Fry was already on to his second packet of cigarettes

Arts

Out of the blue: why Titian’s clouds are central to the drama of his paintings

Posted by The Guardian on Monday, January 16th, 2012 at 10:29 am.

No one captured the movement and subtlety of the shifting skies like Titian, whose work held a natural appeal for British collectors

Arts

Golden Globes 2012: The Artist makes big noise as Oscars race heats up

Posted by The Guardian on Monday, January 16th, 2012 at 10:11 am.

Silent comedy The Artist steals the show, trumping Alexander Payne's The Descendants, at LA ceremony hosted by Ricky Gervais. Acting gongs go to Meryl Streep, George Clooney and Jean Dujardin, as attention turns to Academy Awards

Arts

Jean Dujardin’s Golden Globe success to be followed by One Wild Moment

Posted by The Guardian on Monday, January 16th, 2012 at 9:38 am.

Award-winning star of The Artist will play opposite Vincent Cassel in new version of Claude Berri's 1977 romantic comedy

Auto

Shaken and stirred: Bond cars, boats and autogyros go on display

Posted by The Guardian on Sunday, January 15th, 2012 at 9:42 am.

MI6 agent's silver Aston Martin DB5 at biggest display of Bond vehicles put on to celebrate half a century since first film, Dr No

Arts

Ricky Gervais: he just wants to be loved

Posted by Alex Carter on Saturday, January 14th, 2012 at 7:17 am.

As he prepares to host tonight's Golden Globes awards again, even after last year's controversy, is the guru of shock really as immune to criticism as he professes to be?

Arts

Brahms piano piece to get its premiere 159 years after its creation

Posted by The Guardian on Friday, January 13th, 2012 at 10:14 am.

Albumblatt was found in a Göttingen music director's book and will be presented for the first time on 21 January on Radio 3

Style Men

Men’s fashion week preview: a look ahead to Milan and Paris

Posted by The Guardian on Friday, January 13th, 2012 at 10:09 am.

Burberry's tweetwalk, Raf Simon rumours and Kim Jones's second collection: Simon Chilvers is getting excited ahead of the menswear shows

Arts

Woody Allen: cinema’s great experimentalist

Posted by The Guardian on Friday, January 13th, 2012 at 9:44 am.

Since the 'early, funny' films, Allen's subject-matter has matured, but there's a line of comic genius that runs from Sleeper through to Midnight in Paris

Tech

Moonbot Studios talks Numberlys, apps and interactive storytelling

Posted by The Guardian on Thursday, January 12th, 2012 at 2:36 pm.

'This feels like the invention of radio, television or the movie cinema...'

Arts

Artist of the week 172: Gunnel Wåhlstrand

Posted by The Guardian on Thursday, January 12th, 2012 at 2:26 pm.

Swedist artist Gunnel Wåhlstrand reinterprets her old family photographs as a link to the father she never knew

Tech

The ‘Boycott Sopa’ app and the informed consumer-citizen

Posted by The Guardian on Thursday, January 12th, 2012 at 1:29 pm.

An app created by two computer-science students is a ground-breaking example of how technology can empower our choices• Understanding Sopa: the Guardian's interactive graphic explainer

Epicurean

Whisky tasting: the devil is in the detail

Posted by The Guardian on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 at 9:38 pm.

In preparation for Burns Night, Jonathan Jones learns how to savour the subtleties of whisky like a pro

Travel

Rome’s Colosseum restoration sparks inquiries into contract

Posted by The Guardian on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 at 9:36 pm.

Shoe firm Tod's had struck a €25m deal to fund restoration, but this is being investigated

Arts

Emily Brontë portrait goes under the hammer

Posted by The Guardian on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 at 8:54 pm.

Painting set to fetch £4,000 at auction, a month after smaller portrait of Wuthering Heights author was sold for £24,000

Epicurean

How to make perfect hot chocolate

Posted by The Guardian on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 at 8:52 pm.

Fight the powder: when only a genuine, honest-to-god silky smooth hot chocolate will do, you don't want to make a horlicks of it

Epicurean

How to make orange beer

Posted by The Guardian on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 at 7:43 am.

A recipe for an excellent, light, fresh beer, ideally suited to the relative abstinence we all subject ourselves to in January

Tech

Boot up: Google shakes up search, Tim Cook wins big Apple package, and more

Posted by The Guardian on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 at 7:42 am.

Plus CNet on Android in the fridge, and AcerCloud announced at CES

Arts

Mad Men returns – welcome back Don Draper

Posted by The Guardian on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 at 7:40 am.

Mad Men will be returning for its fifth season in March. I can hardly wait for Peggy, Joan and the rest to return to our screens

Family

Welcome to your celebrity world, little baby Blue Ivy Carter

Posted by The Guardian on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 at 2:19 pm.

A solid-gold rocking horse? A crystal-encrusted high chair? Only the best for Beyoncé and Jay-Z's baby

Tech

CES 2012: Samsung unveils smart TVs

Posted by Mack Shane on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 at 10:44 am.

South Korean manufacturer announces massive range of new products including a 55in Super OLED TV

Travel

747 jumbo hostel in Stockholm

Posted by The Guardian on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 at 8:20 am.

On a disused runway at Stockholm airport, the Jumbo Stay hostel offers visitors the pleasures of first-class air travel, while staying firmly on the ground, says Scott Manson