Music review: Alice Cooper

The years pass slowly in heavy metal. Whereas most contemporary music is required to assimilate new ideas and modify its sound, this essentially conservative genre has remained locked in a timewarp for decades.
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What Kirsty did next

Though David Byrne has marvelled over her voice and Morrissey has drooled over her songs, the big time still seems to elude Kirsty MacColl. Perhaps the new album inspired by her travels in South America will do the trick?
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Art: Voyeurs of the world unite

It's good to talk. But it's even better to listen in. Welcome to the world of Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner. By Fiona Sturges.
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The 50 Best Buildings of the Nineties

Modern architecture in Britain is booming - but how do you sort the good from the bad from the downright ugly? The Information asked a panel of architectural experts to pass comment on our 50 best British buildings of the 1990s - most of which can be viewed, from the outside at least, completely for free. Compiled by Fiona Sturges
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A Short Stay In... Philadelphia

The home of American democracy is generous with its gifts - lashings of classy cuisine, ornamental gardens and even Russian tsars. By Fiona Sturges
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It's all over, Barbie

Aqua flew a hundred journalists to Copenhagen so they could experience them live. Why? Because they know the game is up
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Yin, yang and Yen

When the founder of an obscure aesthetic sect wanted a place to put her tea utensils, she called IM Pei. He built her a museum. Fiona Sturges went to see it in Japan
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