The first time I ever watched an episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race I remember being astonished by the amount of unabashed product placement. I also remember being particularly taken with Ru’s “strutting down the runway” music, Cover Girl from her album, Champion. I downloaded the album and ended up loving…

Rather than add our little needed two cents into The Oscars debate, we thought we’d do something a little different here at TQS. We’ve taken the screenplays of all the nominees we could find in the Best Original Screenplay & Best Adapted Screenplay categories and turned them into word clouds…

There’s something almost comforting about a sense of routine, of knowing roughly what’s going to be coming around the corner. I know, for example, that the second episode of every series of Drag Race always involves the queens being put through their paces in some kind of performance-related challenge. Last…

This weekin pop culture: A flash-mob style fashion show exhibited Stella McCartney’s latest collection as guests tucked into haute cuisine, Ricky Gervais hit out at religious parents who commit ‘child abuse’ through their hostile attitudes towards homosexuality and Paolo Nutini is in talks to write the original score for a…

Blurring the lines between cinema and music, Jay James Picton’s three part music film series, Heads vs Hearts let’s the music tell the story. Deeply seeped in Americana (in both aesthetic and sound) it might surprise you to learn that Jay James Picton is actually a Welshman who was in…

We know winter 2011 isn’t out of the way yet, but with the autumn/winter 2012 men’s fashion week shows all wrapped up, we’re already looking ahead to what we’ll be seeing on the high street come the next cold snap. Men’s Fashion Week in Milan, Paris and Copenhagen, and the Bench…