A History of Pop Music Albums – 1996 Featured Album: Lighthouse Family – Ocean Drive This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to 1999. Just cannot go on that much longer [more…]
In weather fit for neither man nor beast, we climb through a northern landscape, sculpted from rock by water, and the detritus from receding ice, to emerge into sunlight. And there we come across a [more…]
It is indeed strange that the names of the people listed in the article title should remain so completely unknown today. Great innovators of the Weimar Republic during the 1920s, people like Gropius in architecture, [more…]
Firstly, let’s get something out of the way. I never was a violent man. Even in my youth, when a “scrap” was seen as a rite of passage, I did my level best to avoid [more…]
It is no secret that I absolutely love the writing of Patrick Leigh-Fermor, a man whose life would have been wonderfully interesting even if he had never published a word. I sketched out something of [more…]
A History of Pop Music Albums – 1995 Featured Album: Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond This is a series of articles looking at albums from 1960 to 1999. Just cannot go on [more…]
The Third Man is a wonderfully evocative, innovative, and fascinating film, directed by Carol Reed with the screenplay by Graham Greene, set in the dystopian ruins and chaos of immediate post-WW2 Vienna, which at that [more…]
Part Three of the Postcard from Romania covered our visits to the indoor and outdoor sections of the terrific Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography (Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei), a jaunt to Satu Mare on the wild [more…]
A typical three wheeled Enigma with inspection cover open and showing the three wheels in position. When the Second World War began, three wheels became five. There is a scene in the film The Imitation [more…]
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