Posts Tagged ‘The New Yorker’

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Technology: our favourite (ultra useful) new apps

We’re definitely having an app moment – here are our latest and greatest:
Vine – bought by Twitter at the beginning of the year, this 6 second video app is already zooming up the app charts. The genius is that… Continue reading

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Posted in: Staying In, Technology

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Books: Summer Reads part II

Yes, we know we suggested some Summer Reading already but we’ve come across a few more books that we loved SO much, we just had to add them to our list. And even better they’re a bargain, costing no more… Continue reading

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Posted in: Books, Articles & Talks, Staying In

The New Yorker

OK, it’s strictly a website rather than a blog but who’s counting when you can read short stories by Jonathan Safran Foer, Sasha Frere-Jones on music and Anthony Lane on film, to pick but a few of their brilliant writers.… Continue reading

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Posted in: Internet, Our Favourite Blogs

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TV: watch The Sound and the Fury – A Century of Modern Music

Tuesday nights at 9pm or catch up on iPlayer (available till 8.59pm on 5 March 2013)

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Last night, we watched the first episode of this three-part documentary series charting the history of classical music over the last hundred years, and were riveted from the get-go. This first programme is about how music has changed so radically… Continue reading

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Posted in: Music & Dance, Staying In, We Really Love

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Talk: book now for Miranda July

22 Oct, 2.30pm

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If you haven’t seen any of Miranda July’s films or read any of her short stories but you like the work of Wes Anderson and Spike Jonze, then you’re in for such a treat during the London Film Festival next… Continue reading

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Posted in: Book Now, Books, Articles & Talks, Film, Going Out,

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Film & Talk: book now for preview screening of Cars 2 plus John Lasseter Q&A

17 July, 4.30pm

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Oh yay, a new Pixar film is out in July – this time the hotly awaited sequel to Cars, Cars 2. That’s good enough news for us, but it gets better. John Lasseter, the famed, infamous, legendary genius behind

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Posted in: Book Now, Children, Film, Going Out,

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Art: Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes

25 Sept - 9 Jan 2011

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Until you’ve seen this brilliant new show at the V&A, it’s easy to underestimate the influence of the Russian artistic director, Serge Diaghilev and his touring ballet company. (Pick up this week’s New Yorker for a fascinating potted biography by… Continue reading

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Posted in: Art, Going Out