Si no sería por la resaca…
Some of my many conundrums today have included: Why does no-one on Eastenders watch Eastenders? And… ..if soaps reconstruct geographical reality by inventing ‘Albert Square’ (for example), why haven’t they…
Is this the most articulate woman in the world?
No not you, the one in the middle. I took this at the RAD staff party last night, and promised rashly to publish it today, but look, here it is.…
Net curtains for critics?
From the technology pages of the Guardian, Is it Curtains for Critics?, a long discussion on the arguably diminished role of ink-and-paper critics in an online world.
Consider your sylph at home
Nicely odd to see ENB at the Festival Hall for their ‘Festival Ballet’ programme, after all these years of not being at the Festival Hall, and not doing their warhorse,…
Ballet and sex
…is the title of a very interesting lecture by veteran critic Joan Acocella available on from the University of Berkeley via iTunes (click this link to get it: Ballet and…
The Ayn Rand cult
One of the decisions I regret most in life is opting to take Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead to Crete with me as holiday reading a few years ago. I’d…