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In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...
There is a wonderfully simple idea at the heart of Shakespeare x 5.The Bulgarian company Hand Theatre arrive armed with little more than two performers, Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy and a determination to reinvent it repeatedly....
When I first saw this oil on canvas depicting what appears to be a rather mundane scene from a park in Ville-d’Avray in the suburbs of Paris, I was quite struck as much by what it lacked as by what it had. Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot’s...
a5.9 (last updated: 18 Aug 2026) 1) snare drum: Yamaha Vinnie Colaiuta Maple Custom [ seen in Eye Con ]✓ 5 minutes ago ago
I have been working on Grim Metal Bedlam almost daily for the last few weeks and writing in my journals ideas of how to approach primordial maximum. So I have been relativly productive over all in the grand scheme of the apocalypse.I...
Not every Fringe experience needs to be a political epic or a formally adventurous piece of devised theatre.Part of what makes Edinburgh unique is the sheer variety of performance on offer. Alongside the prestige productions,...
Despite their fur coats, the cats have been perfectly happy during the various heatwaves this summer, presumably because they know they can count on fresh water (even if Hector prefers to drink from the pond or the bowl outside by the...
If there is a greatest contemporary play, it is probably Angels in America. Tony Kushner’s A Gay Fantasia on National Themes has occupied that position for more than three decades, a work so vast in its ambition and so startling in its...
The Hollywood dream has always contained a nightmare. When Nathanael West published The Day of the Locust in 1939, he looked beyond the glamour of the movie industry and focused instead on those marooned at its edges: aspiring actors,...
This is the weekly sniff. A roundup of links (linkdump) from the optimistically last week but more likely last month.Best in showhttps://overkill.wtf/notes/uses-updated-august - Overkills updated uses page. I know how much time these are...
I bought this at the Gwen John exhibition in Cardiff, intrigued that an artist was writing to a dead artist about their lives. I had not heard of Celia Paul before (I’m not a great follower of modern art), and I’d disliked Margaret...
I brought my big honking Pentax 645 to a car show recently. The only lens I own for it, the 75mm f/2.8 SMC Pentax-A 645, was mounted, and I had spooled some Ilford HP5 Plus inside. I shot two rolls, actually; here are the shots I liked...
My Dad, Harold D. Burk (1909-1978), passed away in the Bronx, New York, OTD in 1978. He was five weeks from his 70th birthday. I've added Dad to Find a Grave here with a bite-sized bio, noting his service in the US Army during World War...
Had what felt like a minor lightbulb moment in response to this observation from Warren: Imagine a story where the events in our lives that happen online are never depicted or mentioned. A day would seem twelve hours long and the...
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