There are times when I really do have to pinch myself at how lucky I am to do the things I do as a result of this blog. Even though it’s work, it does seem a [...]
“Everyone should be fucking clapping right now, unless you’re that one asshole who won’t clap for anything the whole show.” And so begins the latest [...]
Here’s an interesting one… Today, 8 December, marks the 354th anniversary of women first appearing professionally on the English stage as actresses. Funny, [...]
Eudora Welty, author and Pulitzer Prize winner, once applied for a position with the New Yorker magazine. She was a frustrated 23 year old university graduate, discontented [...]
Patience and Fortitude are the names of the majestic lions who greet you as you walk up the steps of the New York Public Library’s main entrance, and patience and [...]
Sometimes you get a look at the inner workings of a person’s brain and what you glimpse in there is so unlike the mind of any other you’ve ever seen, that it [...]
In honour of what would have been Audrey Hepburn’s 85th birthday, here’s my pick of the best and weirdest Audrey inspired art on the net (I’m not telling [...]
It’s a rare privilege to be able to see firsthand an artist’s journey from tentative preteen to self-assured expressionist, but that’s what happens when your oldest [...]
There is a word in Greek, parea, meaning a group of friends who gather together purely for the enjoyment of each other’s company, to share their stories, their ideas [...]