Theatre - If Maurice was a new play, I'd criticise the tired 'coming out' story and its lack of present action, but this is an adaptation of EM Forster's queer classic - so what does it have to say now?

In fact Maurice wasn't published until 1971, after the author's death. it was considered too risky to publish when it was written at the outbreak of WW1, largely because it gave its central gay character a relatively happy ending.

The play hinges on this gutsy ending, but there's over two and half hours to get through before that!

Music - We would not expect it any differently but the new Lady Gaga video, released for new single 'Telephone', is a feast for the eye.

The track sees Beyoncé returning the favour for Lady Gaga's appearance on the Rn'B icon's single 'Video Phone'.

Movie - The gays had limited success at this years Academy Awards. Colin Firth had to settle with a Bafta (as if that's settling!) for "A SIngle Man" after Best Actor went to Jeff Bridges. Gay director Lee Daniels may not have won Best Picture for "Precious", but it did receive the Best Adapted Screenplay. So with the Noughties over, it seems like a good time to reflect on the big gay films of the past decade.

Music - Australian singer-songwriter Gabriella Cilmi is 'On A Mission'. Just turned 18, the singer who scored a worldwide hit with 'Sweet About Me', is set to surprise a lot of people with her bold, fresh musical direction and feisty attitude. She recently spoke to us about her sexy new look, her signature dance moves and wanting to release a country and western album.

Check out the interview:

Books - The Sky Below by Stacey D'Erasmo is so full of story, poetry and magic, it's difficult to know what I should reveal about one of my favourite books this year.

Gabriel Collins might be a struggling artist, filling shoeboxes with memories, sculpture and stolen goods. Or maybe he's kidding himself that he's not a obituarist, working in the dust clouds of the fallen World Trade Centre. Or as a ghost writer for a dying author of trash literature. Gabriel could be, as his name and mother suggest, an angel. But he thinks he might just be Tereus - a mythical man whom Ovid metamorphosed into a bird. Is the itching beneath his skin sprouting feathers, or "lazy cancer"?

Music - Pop icon Boy George is back on music's mainstream radar with his first major commercial release in over ten years.

On Monday 22nd March he will be releasing 'Amazing Grace', a track written by Boy George, John Themis & Kinky Roland and produced and mixed by The Sharp Boys. The single also features additional vocals by the critically acclaimed Portuguese singer Ana Lains.

VideoW@tch - Shakira is heating things up with Spanish tennis star Raphael Nadal in her brand new video for single 'Gypsy', the third single from album 'She Wolf'. The video for 'Gypsy' was directed by Jaume.

DVD - I hadn't watched renowned gay director Derek Jarman's Edward II for ten years, so it was delightful to receive a brand new remastered version through the post. But I was hesitant as to whether the 1991 classic would still have resonance, when so many New Queer Cinema classics are already resigned to historic curios.

Jarman's film takes the bones, and most emotive speeches, from Christopher Marlowe's 16th century play about gay (probably) ruler of England, King Edward II. It begins:

"My father is deceased. Come Gaveston, and share the Kingdom with thy dearest friend."