Ethos (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
Byron's epic poem Don Juan was never completed upon his death. Byron wrote seventeen cantos of Don Juan before he died. Canto II describes how Juan goes on a voyage from Cadiz with servants and his tutor Pedrillo. Juan is...
Morocco Travel Information (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... you don't miss a priority on the left and have to give a bribe to the policeman in front of you. Don't leave the girl choose the banknote you will give to the policeman.Do intend to spend the night in the same room as the girl and do not pay for two rooms to satisfy with morrocan society idea a good behavior between two adults. Do not be afraid by her new kissing you wildly. Go to Djema El Fna...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
A moustachioed 'Don Juan' has conned ten women in Spain by promising them love and then taking their savings.
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Dial "M" for Musicology (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
"If we were to search for a name to convey the breakaway mood of the 1890s (a mood symbolized musically by the opening bars of Strauss's Don Juan) but without imposing a fictitious unity of style on the age, we...
SpoilerTV (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
STORY LINE The CBI teams investigates the death of a gorgeous young married woman, killed while in bed with her playboy lover... [ALEX FRICKE] This great guest lead is a 35 year-old modern day lothario / Don Juan / Cassanova / womanizer...but he isn't all that attractive - in fact, he is slightly on the nerdy side. He could be either the skinny guy or the shlubby guy. But what he lacks in the looks...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
Michael Berkeley and Ian McEwan's opera For You rewrites the Don Juan myth in the style of Holby City. Charles Frieth (Alan Opie) is a sexually incontinent conductor-composer. His wife, Antonia (Helen Williams), is a woman of peerless virtue but poor health. Her besotted physician and modern-day Don Ottavio, Simon (Jeremy Huw Williams), is a "simple type who prefers Vivaldi"; her nemesis, Maria...
SFist (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
SF Symphony guest conductor Fabio Luisi did his best last week to steal the thunder of violin megastar Joshua Bell . He opened the program with a tone poem by Richard Strauss, Don Juan. Tone poem means a symphonic little piece which tells a story, and, more often than not, said story is rather hard to follow: the instrumental language of an orchestra, as powerful and evocative as it is, is...
Balls and Walnuts (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008
Was it that old fraud Carlos Castaneda whose brujo, Don Juan, warned his apprentice of the risks of staring at running water? The spirit catches the current and floats away like a twig, like a wisp of algae. If the spirit strays too far, it may never find its way home. Wind can do the same. *** I’m [...]
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
Gael Greene is getting an earful from the current and former partners of Michael “Bao” Huynh, whom she calls “the Vietnamese Don Juan of bun and pho” (he gets around, see). Asked whether he isn’t wary of the roving chef, Steve Scher of Main Street Partners says he's made it work with a “bad boy” before: “Alex Garcia has a checkered past, but he keeps coming back to Calle Ocho and it’s busier...
Seen Through a Glass (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
I got a press release from Heineken International today that just made me smile. His Majesty King Don Juan Carlos I of Spain opens new Heineken brewery in Seville Heineken International announced today the official opening of its newest brewery in Seville, by His Majesty, King Don Juan Carlos I of Spain. Located seven kilometres from where the old plant of La Cruz del Campo used to be...
Bossip (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
Posted by Bossip Staff Your favorite 4th cousin, Bishop Don “Magic” Juan, was out and about doing pimp things like wearing that God-awful suit. We supposed as a pimp, Don Juan is contractually obligated to buy and wear clothes that no self respecting man ever would. Looking like the Vampire Lestat in that blouse… SMH More pimpin’ [...]
