First of all, I have a fair bit of Scorpio in me, astrologically speaking, and so this year I have been creating “Freudian” or otherwise weirdly coincidental situations for my Piscean frie...
The poem A Thank You to the Wonders of Photography is currently one of the Challenge Poems during the National Poetry Month celebrated in the United States throughout the month of April. It could not ...
You know that it took me six years to get to Urbis. Well, it took me seven years to visit Heaton Park, despite the fact that for 4.5 years I lived in Clifton which is only 15 mins by car from Prestwic...
René Magritte, Man with a Newspaper, 1928, originally uploaded by The Whitworth Art Gallery. René Magritte’s Man with a Newspaper (Tate London, 1928) is currently exhibited as a part of Subversi...
If you follow me on Twitter, you already know that I was all excited about going to Tina Turner’s concert at MEN Arena on Friday, 3rd of April 2009 (as were a few of my colleagues and fellow Twe...
Update: a National Geographic video report about Nicola Barbatelli’s discovered portrait of Leonardo. Yes, again on the subject of Leonardo’s portraits, for there is an exhibition currentl...
The 2009 Manchester International Festival (2-19 July 2009) full programme goes up live on the site tomorrow, Thursday 19th of March, at 2pm. The tickets will be on sale from 3pm on the same day. Firs...
I have recently been added as a Flickr contact by someone who was making pictures of Liverpool on exactly the same day – 18th of December – when I visited the 2008 European Capital of Cult...
I deliberately quoted Don Black’s introduction to Monsieur Legrand from the concert’s booklet. I couldn’t think of a better title, given the electrifying performance from Legrand Jaz...
This life does take us to different places. Two years ago Flickr featured Joe Ades, “the gentleman carrot peeler”, who was one of New York’s landmark characters, selling $5 vegetable...