Bald ambition

Once upon a time, he was just another musician with strong views on God, politics and vegetarianism; then 'Play' quietly turned him into the voice of his generation. Now he's a global, multi-platinum-selling pop phenomenon - and even David Bowie plays in support when he tours. But Moby is still something of an enigma - as Fiona Sturges discovered when she joined him on the road in America
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Lee Hazlewood: Singular Lee

He discovered Duane Eddy and practically invented country rock, but Lee Hazlewood is best known for his collaboration with Nancy Sinatra. The secret of their success? Singing dirty songs, he tells Fiona Sturges
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Music review - Brian Wilson, Royal Festival Hall

It's not often that a musician gets a standing ovation before he has played a note. But Brian Wilson, erstwhile Beach Boy, composer, arranger, singer and living legend, gets just this as he arrives on stage...
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'Thingy out of Cold Feet'

Until ITV's hit series Cold Feet came along, Robert Bathurst was just another struggling actor. Now he's an unwilling celebrity who's fighting off Hello! magazine. Fiona Sturges met him

Todd Solondz: Why's everybody always picking on me?

He may be a master of black comedy, but the director Todd Solondz - whose new film Storytelling is about to be released - finds it hard to laugh off criticism. Fiona Sturges meets a man wounded by the 'incredibly horrible things' people say
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Scott Capurro: The comic who makes people cry

He says he doesn't mean to offend, but the Holocaust and Aids are hardly laugh-a-minute subjects, so why does he insist on doing them? By Fiona Sturges
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Hotel review: Europa, Belfast

One month after the official opening, events commenced that would eventually earn the hotel the reputation as 'the most bombed hotel in Europe'." The official history of the Europa does not shy away from the Troubles.
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The new, nasty TV quiz show has arrived

Will Anne Robinson's 'theatre of cruelty' replace the old-school entertainers? Is Bruce Forsyth now the game show's weakest link? By Fiona Sturges.
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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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