More and more people are visiting Manchester these days, and admittedly there are more and more reasons to do so. FutureEverything (festival-formerly-known-as-Futuresonic), Manchester International Festival and Manchester Literature Festival , Queer Up North , you name it. This is not to mention the beloved Manchester United and the growing MediaCityUK in Salford Quays. To help you glide effortlessly...
Scandinavian Airlines’, Winter Seat Sale has just kicked off with discounts on SAS flights from London Heathrow to Scandinavia for 2010 getaways. Flights to Oslo down by £20 – the perfect Christmas gift! - Give your family the gift of a New Year break to Oslo, Norway and take advantage of SAS one-way fares to Oslo for just £59 – a truly original present which will excite...
Colm Tóibín The three gossips from The Ghosts of Versailles at the Wexford Opera Festival , Ireland, 2009 ( wexfordopera.com ) Wexford is a small town on the sea in the south-east of Ireland and an unlikely place to host an opera festival . Yet since 1951 in late October the town has organized what has become for many opera-lovers an essential date in the calendar. The reason why it...
Next up with a Dancing Questionnaire it's Georgina/infinite, artist , photographer and the South London bassnik responsible for Drumz of the South and much else besides. Another respondent who I haven't yet met but whose path has crossed mine - in this case as recently as last Saturday night when somebody said to me 'Georgina's here somewhere...' 1. Can you remember your first experience of dancing?...
For the second time this year, i visit Paris. The first time, in May, i was showing my work at an arts festival organized and curated by Ioana and now we just went to see the Paris Photo. The festival was an interesting experience, certainly one which will become a yearly habit from now on. I also visited a Iranian photography series on the banks of the Seine. Art wise we roamed around the Louvre and...
Waldo "Wally" Hunt, the man responsible for the modern renaissance of the pop-up book industry, passed away earlier this month at the age of 88. After selling his West Coast-based advertising agency in the early '60s, Hunt ended up in New York City. Disillusioned with his company's fate, Hunt looked for a new passion. He found it on Fifth Avenue when he caught a glimpse of a Czechoslovakian...
The Pavilion 21 MINI Opera Space is one of the tiniest but most interesting designs by Wolf Prix for the Munich Opera Festival 2010 with a maximum seat capacity of 300 only. The designers have achieved a visually and acoustically pleasing lightweight structure through enhancing the visualizing properties of the tilted walls and enlarged surface [...]
Bear and I headed south on US19 in a steady rain, which just got steadier, ... much steadier, the farther we travelled. I had decided to cruise down to Yankeetown (yes, snowavians, there is such a place ... we tried to keep the infection contained long ago, but some escaped) heehee By the time I hit Inglis, roads were ponding and the rain showed no sign of letting up. I took a right on "Follow...
Want to try travel writing but never been published and paid? This one's for you. The British Guild of Travel Writers has announced that as part of its 50th anniversary celebrations, it is launching a new travel writing competition for unpublished travel writers in partnership with Traveller magazine. The competition is open to all writers aged over 18, both UK and non-UK residents, who have not been...
The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino was the first music festival in Italy when it was founded in'33 by the Italian conductor and composer, Vittorio Gui. The festival's first success led the event to become biennial in'37. However, after'37, it became an annual festival, except during the Second World War.
The other tree for Festival of Trees! This is the one I worked on with a couple of wonderful friends. Some of my favorite ornaments, though my photography is lacking focus here. Who is feeling the joy this week?? ********* If you have the time, please consider clicking through to my blog. Also, if you comment, I get warm fuzzies and I think you're cool...even if you're not. ;)(But you totally are you...
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