Ai Weiwei has another work on show in London: a living sculpture, “The Box”, consisting of a crab and a cactus in the small confined space of a white box (the artist has been incarcerated for months at a time in China) is at the Pippy Houldsworth Gallery from today. As with the box, the […]
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Duck stars at the Peabody Hotel, Memphis This article first appeared in Gap Year Magazine The Mississippi Blues trail It was the ducks that did it. Even they had their own musical accompaniment: the King Cotton March by John Phillip Sousa, as it happens. Any trip worth remembering will have its own soundtrack that stays
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In Lewis Carroll’s Alice Through The Looking Glass, when the Walrus and the Carpenter take the little oysters on a long march along the beach, the Walrus weeps over the fate of the poor shellfish while he scoffs as many as he can behind the cover of the handkerchief he’s sobbing into. This image sums
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Anna Chen – 19 April 2012 This review first appeared in the Morning Star 19th April 2012 Black T-shirt CollectionInua Ellams — Cottesloe Theatre, NTreview by Anna Chen, 16 April 2012 In Inua Ellam’s 75-minute monologue about how to be successful whilst keeping your soul unsullied, Matthew and Muhammed, two Nigerian foster-brothers from across the
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Oh my good frickin’ god. That must have been a bad puddy. This report from the American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology (via Private Eye) reads like a horror story par excellence. It’s the cool scientific tone that packs the punch as we see the whole episode and backstory played out in our mind’s
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Not another radio drama about soldiers. Our 21st Century militarised culture seems to be shaping up with the help of an increasing number of army plays on BBC Radio 4 to go with the tedious humanisation of business drummed into us in programmes such as The Apprentice, Dragons Den, anything with Evan Davies, Secret Millionaire
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