If I had listened to the recommendations for last week's marriage theme in the days before my husband proposed to me, I think I might have hesitated for quite some time before saying yes. The songs that sprang out at me, then burrowed into my brain, were those in which the initial wedding euphoria had subsided and the wife ...

Perhaps it's just me, laid low by the onslaught of autumn, but the recommendations for last week's memory theme felt unusually dispiriting. Even when a song's lyrics recalled happy times, it was chiefly because they had passed, or compared unfavourably with the present. I got to the point where a lovely, uplifting song like Dean Martin's ...

We just heard that Kim Gordon is starting her own fashion line, mirror/dash. But what about clothes inspired by rock stars? Stephin Merritt—he of the golf caps and racist controversies—has been honored with his very own line of shoes courtesy of French shoemaker Bluedy. You can see the cute little numbers here. If you were going to ...