Hearing loss & children
Via Rebecca’s Pocket, still my favourite blog on the net, an article about hearing loss and young children from the NY Times. It’s become fashionable to denigrate health & safety…
Krava-hydrates
Breakfast for me is a serious business: it’s got to be slow release, with protein, and low GI. I’m not an ascetic, I just like food too much: I’d no…
Places that are still there #2: The Cosmoba, Bloomsbury
I can’t walk anywhere in Bloomsbury without being wistfully rushed back in time to when I was a student at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies back in…
“Push a little button”
This is the nicest story I’ve come across for a long time. Ninette was a student on a course I taught on the BA (Hons) in Dance Education at the…
Gender, Mao, ballet
Performing Gender in Maoist Ballet: Mutual Subversions of Genre and Ideology in The Red Detachment of Women. Interesting online scholarly article by Rosemary Roberts which does what it says on…
Jan Moir and ‘orchestration’
I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised: how likely was it that Jan Moir would get her knuckles properly rapped for her nasty article on Stephen Gately? It oozed with latent…