Last night London's Luvvieland came together for their annual award ceremony, the Oliviers. Having received 11 nominations across 10 categories, it looked like being Hairspray's night. And Londonist is happy to confirm what we already knew: the show is a deserved winner of the Best New Musical accolade. In addition, Leanne Jones (Best Actress in a Musical) rocks as the optimistic teen, Tracy Turnblad; Tracie Bennett (Best Supporting Role in a Musical) is similarly......

Torontoist throws down the gauntlet and challenges all comers: pillow fight, bitch. They also stand up for a fellow blogger taking heat from the TTC and welcome city-wide WiFi. SFist can finally admit it: It's possible that Bary Bonds juiced. Is Bay Area artist (tempted to put quotes around that) Thomas Kinkaid "kinda crappy" or "explosively crappy" or does he just like marking territory? SFist wonders. Technology comes in the form of new Mac goodness......

This week's Peter Bradshaw Appreciation Society kicks off with Roman Polanski's take on Oliver Twist. For the illiterate, using screen readers to read this week's Friday Film News out to you, Oliver Twist is the story of an orphan boy sent to the workhouse, who runs away to London and falls into criminal ways before finding redemption (via some horrific encounters, including murder). There may be a happy ending but, flipping heck, there's some......