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Review: Prom 7, The Fairy Queen, Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Purcell’s “Fairy Queen” is a difficult production to put on. Not quite a play, not quite an opera; a cast featuring lead characters as well as lead voices and soloist dancers, it’s a tough cookie to balance. The Fairy Queen has been staged at the Glyndebourne Festival this summer directed by Jonathan Kent, and was [...]

I'm sorry… that's never happened before

I tend not to write to much really personal stuff on here, but wanted to record a certain moment and the blog seemed as good a place as any. This evening, while putting in the hours of the office, I was dumbfounded by something that came on the radio – stopped in my tracks, hairs [...]

How to use twitter to find your next date

It was particularly apt to see this Mr Litman blog post earlier in the year, why is it apt… actually it’s not. But it did get picked up by the Telegraph, since every media outlet is writing about Twitter these days – love it or hate it.
So anyway. Valentine’s Day – that’s a bummer for [...]

I don't look like my photo

So I’ve been meaning to put a post up about this for a while. Mario Cacciottolo is a photographer, and a blogger. He runs a website called Someone Once Told Me. The concept is a simple one – a new photo, every day, of someone displaying something that someone told them… once. We all remember being [...]

Get dapper

Spotted the Gieves & Hawkes AW08 suits on a recent iluwfashion post, and they’re simply gorgeous! They make the traditionally “older” three-piece and double-breasted styles look young, fresh and totally wearable by someone in their late 20s (uhh, me). The suggestion that students returning to campus should nip out and buy one is a little tongue [...]

Slow to the last.fm party

I was a big fan of Pandora before it closed down over here. It took me a while, but I’ve recently really liked getting into (the better by far) last.fm and last night downloaded the application for my iPod touch. I love the idea of simply streaming music to a personal device that’s intended for music, and [...]