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…
100 London moments that shook the world (Time Out)
This is what RSS feeds are for – to make sure you don’t miss a great feature like Time Out’s 100 London moments that shook the world
The bifurcating waltz, moths & Van der Merwe
Warning: this post may contain traces of moth Spent the day at Senate House Library (the music bit), on one of my regular-ish trawls for new stuff to include in…