Lauper: Broadway is a happy place

Cyndi Lauper says Broadway is a much more pleasant place to work than the music industry.

Iron Maiden frontman's charity ride

He has already run to the hills, but now Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson is preparing to pedal to the festival.

Frank Ocean: Clean home makes me happy

Frank Ocean has joked he’s happiest when his carpet is freshly vacuumed.

Amanda Bynes ‘kicked off private jet’

Amanda Bynes reportedly asked a pilot to google her as she failed to produce identification before boarding a private jet.

Kourtney Kardashian plans Gatsby party

Kourtney Kardashian has been inspired by the lavish sets in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby.

Will Smith reveals his 'Willosophy'

Will Smith says his pearls of wisdom should be named "Willosophy".

Lewis, Cumberbatch get Critics nods

Damian Lewis and Benedict Cumberbatch are among the British stars flying the flag at the 2013 American Critics' Choice Television Awards.

Gosling gore film booed at Cannes

Ryan Gosling's film Only God Forgives has been booed at Cannes because of extreme violence.

Essex's better pay bid rejected

Joey Essex reportedly threatened to quit The Only Way Is Essex unless he was given a better pay deal.

Joris Minne: Rhubarb

The post-industrial landscape surrounding parts of the Castlereagh Road is at its bleakest between Channing Street and Orby Link where a huge Tesco store has been erected on the site of a former factory.

Joris Minne: Brown's in Town

The UK City of Culture 2013 continues to aim high with its ongoing series of visiting events including the top-of-the-range and always controversial Turner Prize announcement this autumn, the City of Derry Regatta and the Big Tickle comedy festival. Who would have thought Derry would have an appetite for posh art, sailing and laughter?

Review: Fawlty Towers at the Northern Whig

The Faulty Towers live theatre dining experience is a largely improvised show. It started from the moment we all arrived at the venue and heard Sybil cry out for husband Basil, who was busy barking orders at hapless waiter Manuel.

Why the restaurant OX has critics and public hungry for more

It's currently the most talked about restaurant in Ireland, North or South.

Joris Minne: Katmandu Kitchen

People have been writing off Belfast's Botanic Avenue for many years. The street has suffered all sorts of slings and arrows principally because for the last 100 years it has been at the heart of a transient student society.

Belfast's Robinson and Cleaver building to be home of new restaurant

A new restaurant is due to open in one of Belfast city centre's best-known landmark buildings.

Iron Maiden frontman's charity ride

He has already run to the hills, but now Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson is preparing to pedal to the festival.

KT Tunstall marriage end signalled

A divorce judge has signalled the end of KT Tunstall's marriage to drummer Luke Bullen.

JLS headliners at Hyde Park show

Soon-to-split boyband JLS are the latest headliners for a series of major outdoor shows in London's Hyde Park.

Cannes femmes: Flashes and flesh on the red carpet as Irina Shayk and Alessandra Ambrosio shimmer at 'All is Lost' first night

Carano: Fighting Rodriguez was fun

Gina Carano says that swapping blows with Michelle Rodriguez on Fast And Furious 6 was "kick-a**".

Canet: New York too clean for film

Guillaume Canet has revealed he had to bring in truck loads of rubbish to dump on the streets of New York for his latest movie, as the city was just too clean and tidy.

Awesome Cannes: Russian model Irina Shayk and Alessandra Ambrosio dazzle at 'All is Lost' premiere

Good guy Zach Galifianakis: Hangover actor takes 87-year-old friend Mimi, who he saved from homelessness, to LA movie premiere

Bearded American comedian Zach Galifianakis has an unlikely friendship with an elderly former laundrette employee whom he rescued from financial ruin with the help of Renée Zellweger.

Apprentice girl of Derry Leah Totton 'will go far,' claims reject Uzma Yakoob

Leah Totton will go far in the contest to win Lord Alan Sugar's The Apprentice, the show's latest reject has predicted.

Joe Boyd's lecture at the Black Box is found lacking in colour

Legendary record producer Joe Boyd visited Belfast's Black Box on Saturday afternoon to reminisce about the cult singer-songwriter Nick Drake, who died in 1974.

Composer Howard Shelley inspires a memorable evening of music at the Ulster Hall

Howard Shelley is one of the most distinguished pianists and conductors of his generation, and he inspired the Ulster Orchestra, and the large audience in the Ulster Hall, in a memorable evening of music by Mozart and Beethoven.

Photographers from Belfast Exposed display their work in a new exhibition at the MAC

The MAC has teamed up with Belfast Exposed Photography to launch a joint exhibition ‘Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography’.

Review: Fawlty Towers at the Northern Whig

The Faulty Towers live theatre dining experience is a largely improvised show. It started from the moment we all arrived at the venue and heard Sybil cry out for husband Basil, who was busy barking orders at hapless waiter Manuel.

Northern Ireland artist is making his landmark in art world

They are some of Northern Ireland's best-known landmarks captured as you've never seen before.

Billy Connolly's Irish shows sell out despite foul-mouthed tirade that reduced photographer to tears

The controversy over a foul-mouthed tirade that reduced a female photographer to tears has done little to dent the popularity of Scottish comedian Billy Connolly (71).

Review: Robert Frisk's talk springs a few surprises

The Harbour Commissioners was the setting for stories of dehumanising conflict in a lively talk from Robert Fisk.

Review: Diane Spence unleashed a "tsunami of filth"

Diane Spencer brought tales of "the human experience" last night. "It just happens to be a disgusting one," said the X-rated raconteur, who seems to have 'experienced' mainly heavy drinking and kinky sex.

When talking is done, it's hard to love new Billy play

It's been 30 years since we last saw Billy Martin, the hero of Graham Reid's much feted television trilogy. He left us without warning or forwarding address. And he left a Belfast punctuated with bullets and bomb blasts.