Arts

The Victoria and Albert is hosting the iconic designs of the cold war in a new exhibition. CHRISTINE LINDEY pays a visit.

CHRIS T-T proposes guerilla protests against age banding children's books.

Interview: PETE FLOOD of eclectic folk-world-jazz-fusion musos Bellowhead speaks of his band's runaway success.

POETRY: Protest by David Floyd

RUSSIAN literature effectively began with Alexander Pushkin. At a time when the first language of the Russian nobility was French, he introduced Russian vernacular speech into his work and imported European literary ideas into Russian culture.

CHRIS SEARLE is impressed with two cool jazz geniuses.

JUDITH AMANTHIS encounters some art straight out of occupied Iraq.

CHRIS T-T discovers the glories of retro entertainment.

DURING the 1800 US electoral campaign, Thomas Jefferson wrote: "Politics are such a torment that I would advise everyone I love not to mix with them." It's a view that mainstream cinema has adopted.

INTERVIEW: Movimientos co-founder CAL JADER talks to CHARLEY ALLAN about mixing a splash of great music with his political activism.