Paul the octopus escapes the lemon wedges and black pepper by retiring with a 100 per cent strike rate at picking World Cup winners. We discover that animal oracles have to be real damn cute, or incredibly lucky.

ABC TV has greenlit two new series. The men of the Chaser have a series of election specials, Yes We Canberra!, while Marieke Hardy is co-creator of a new black comedy entitled Laid.

Readers can finally embrace the same individuality that their Japanese koi fish sleeves represent by picking up a copy of Bridget Jones’s Diary with a tattoo design cover.

On Monday, internet users were hoaxed into believing 5 July, 2010 was the date Marty McFly travels to in Back To The Future 2. Here are some real anniversaries that fall this week.

This week, after reading about yet another overseas ‘viral’ campaign involving QR codes, we just had to ask: do Australians use those square doo-hickeys… or even know what they are?

If you’re mad for ghoulish cartoons or just want to stand near a lot of fancy shit that Johnny Depp has touched, Tim Burton: The Exhibition actually does have something for everyone… even the haters.

New sitcom Episodes reunites Green Wing’s Tamsin Grieg and Stephen Mangan. They play the creators of a series being remade in the US starring Matt LeBlanc. No joke.

One of southern-fried stadium rock’s lesser lights still has a hedonistic charm well worth rescuing from a smalltown op shop.

Critics and family groups are troubled by vicious violence dealt out to little tackers in the new, PG-rated Karate Kid. Was the decision to skew the remake younger a misguided one?