The vibe is laid-back; it’s like a mini Glastonbury Festival, and a real find for backpackers in Central America.”Where: Ferry Jetty, San Pedro, Guatemala (contact Deano at Sparrow101 hotmail ).How much: free.10 De Melkweg, AmsterdamDe Melkweg (“Milky Way”) has been messing with the mainstream since opening on an Amsterdam dairy site way back in 1970. [...]
To avoid the feeling that this kind of history is one damn thing after another, he interrupts his mellifluous flow with chapters on individuals, though significantly more patrons than artists: William of Wykeham, Cardinal Wolsey, the Earl of Arundel, Horace Walpole, Prince Albert (who in an inappropriate slip into demotic he calls a “dynastic stud”).Strong’s [...]
Perhaps it’s something in the water, but Bristolians seem to have something of a fixation with objects flying over their heads. The Ashton Court estate in Bristol is the venue for an annual ballooning regatta and this weekend the same venue hosts a weekend of kite flying. The festival begins with a demonstration by the [...]
Here are the Piranesi drawings that Soane displays so ingeniously on pull-out rods in his picture gallery at home, and a huge canvas painted by his fishing partner, JW Turner, that Soane commissioned for his house but sent back as he didn’t like it, now on loan from the Tate. Like any capricious impresario of [...]
Trench warfare is like a long series of drawn five-day Test matches laid end to end. “Writing a history of the Great War was very like writing a history of cricket. During a lull in play I asked him if, as a historian, he had considered writing a history of cricket.”In a sense, I already [...]
But most of all they will be there to cheer on the peace process. Two years ago they went on a swing through England that included stop-offs at Lord’s and Hambledon as well as an appointment for tea with Prince Edward at Buckingham Palace.And now they are preparing for a follow-up tour, a 19-day trip [...]
Nowadays, junkies’ syringes lie underfoot and its columns are daubed with graffiti.Although sanatoriums were found across the country, the Black Sea was considered a prize destination, reserved for party bigwigs. Today, the Odessa Sanatorium has passed into the hands of the Ukrainian Secret ServiceFrom neo-classical to concrete, Black Sea sanatoriumsNeo-classical architecture found favour with the [...]
Mark sent me the music from America which I listened to and then I sent him the design, which was made into a backdrop, and then he choreographed using the music and the backdrop. The first time I ever saw a theatre design I’d done, for Covent Garden, I just couldn’t believe the scale, a [...]
“I feel at home working here.”Philip Livingstone50s, game show producerResident for three yearsPhilip’s daughter is happy to visit his one-bed flat overlooking the car park in the rear courtyard. I bought the chandelier in France – isn’t it just right? But my girlfriend refuses to come here.”Alan Bayne50s, architectWorked in this studio for two yearsAlan [...]
It’s not the glittery thing of having a concept.” About her reportage, which she admits is not often easy on the eye, she once said: “I don’t take pictures to put in a box. It was part of a story commissioned by Life magazine but, in the end, it never ran. “I went in,” she [...]
The vibe is laid-back; it’s like a mini Glastonbury Festival, and a real find for backpackers in Central America.”Where: Ferry Jetty, San Pedro, Guatemala (contact Deano at Sparrow101 hotmail ).How much: free.10 De Melkweg, AmsterdamDe Melkweg (“Milky Way”) has been messing with the mainstream since opening on an Amsterdam dairy site way back in 1970. [...]
To avoid the feeling that this kind of history is one damn thing after another, he interrupts his mellifluous flow with chapters on individuals, though significantly more patrons than artists: William of Wykeham, Cardinal Wolsey, the Earl of Arundel, Horace Walpole, Prince Albert (who in an inappropriate slip into demotic he calls a “dynastic stud”).Strong’s [...]
Perhaps it’s something in the water, but Bristolians seem to have something of a fixation with objects flying over their heads. The Ashton Court estate in Bristol is the venue for an annual ballooning regatta and this weekend the same venue hosts a weekend of kite flying. The festival begins with a demonstration by the [...]
Here are the Piranesi drawings that Soane displays so ingeniously on pull-out rods in his picture gallery at home, and a huge canvas painted by his fishing partner, JW Turner, that Soane commissioned for his house but sent back as he didn’t like it, now on loan from the Tate. Like any capricious impresario of [...]
Trench warfare is like a long series of drawn five-day Test matches laid end to end. “Writing a history of the Great War was very like writing a history of cricket. During a lull in play I asked him if, as a historian, he had considered writing a history of cricket.”In a sense, I already [...]
But most of all they will be there to cheer on the peace process. Two years ago they went on a swing through England that included stop-offs at Lord’s and Hambledon as well as an appointment for tea with Prince Edward at Buckingham Palace.And now they are preparing for a follow-up tour, a 19-day trip [...]
Nowadays, junkies’ syringes lie underfoot and its columns are daubed with graffiti.Although sanatoriums were found across the country, the Black Sea was considered a prize destination, reserved for party bigwigs. Today, the Odessa Sanatorium has passed into the hands of the Ukrainian Secret ServiceFrom neo-classical to concrete, Black Sea sanatoriumsNeo-classical architecture found favour with the [...]
Mark sent me the music from America which I listened to and then I sent him the design, which was made into a backdrop, and then he choreographed using the music and the backdrop. The first time I ever saw a theatre design I’d done, for Covent Garden, I just couldn’t believe the scale, a [...]
“I feel at home working here.”Philip Livingstone50s, game show producerResident for three yearsPhilip’s daughter is happy to visit his one-bed flat overlooking the car park in the rear courtyard. I bought the chandelier in France – isn’t it just right? But my girlfriend refuses to come here.”Alan Bayne50s, architectWorked in this studio for two yearsAlan [...]
It’s not the glittery thing of having a concept.” About her reportage, which she admits is not often easy on the eye, she once said: “I don’t take pictures to put in a box. It was part of a story commissioned by Life magazine but, in the end, it never ran. “I went in,” she [...]