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Photo Inspirations – Disaster Photo Inspirations – Empty Seat Adapt to Survive Review: Dans Le Noir A Family Affair Photo Inspirations – A New Year
 

Photo Inspirations – Disaster

OMG. What happened? To whom? Why? Photograph taken by Paige Sinkler Paige Sinkler…

Photo Inspirations – Empty Seat

An empty seat. Will someone rush in late, sidling down the row in the dark bumping knees and blocking the view? Or not. Perhaps something urgent came up, and they’re out there dealing with it while the show goes merrily …

Adapt to Survive

Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as Holmes and Watson There are several different ways of making an adaptation. You could go down the 1980s Brideshead Revisited route, which is to take the entire text of the book, get Jeremy Irons …

Review: Dans Le Noir

Can eating the dark be more poetical than dining by candlelight? Still arousing people’s curiosity today, Dans le noir (French for in the dark) is a truly unique dining and sensory experience. Food blogger,  Elsa Messi went to see if …

A Family Affair

Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham Families are like boxes of chocolates. They turn up around Christmas, full of joyful truffles and pralines, and then six days and five boxes later you’re furiously sick of them and all that’s left are …

Photo Inspirations – A New Year

All change for the new year!  New things can be exciting, or scary. Often they go from being one to the other. Is there a story in that journey? Photograph taken by Paige Sinkler…

Good Bad Books

30 January 2012

Last week, I wrote about Culture, something that has an almost unique ability to make most of the population very nervous, as though it were a test they were bound to fail. It’s an understandable position but a very unfortunate …

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The New Culture Revolution

27 January 2012

Now it’s Chinese New Year, it is time to ditch the Chow Mein Pot Noodle. In the year of the Dragon, cuisine from the far east is being rediscovered as more than just fast food. It comes from a tradition …

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To Be Or Not To Be: The New-Look Dissertation

27 January 2012

As I write this, there’s many a final year English student in a library in every university town, panicking about their upcoming dissertations. For many of us, January means sales, snow and sticking to our new year’s resolutions but for …

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Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar

22 January 2012

A scene from The Pitman Painters at the Theatre Royal In the first scene of The Pitmen Painters, set in the coal-mining town of Ashington in the 1930s, a group of miners have organised an after-work art appreciation class. The …

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