James Hamilton examines the oft-repeated comparison between football fandom and religion... England's football stadia were the last major addition to our great Victorian cities in their original form: it follows from that that, like so much about our great Victorian cities, by the 1970s they were clapped out and unfit for ... Read More...
Month: July 2011
Bryan Appleyard responds to Mahlerman's review of Tree of Life... Much as I esteem Mahlerman, on the subject of Terrence Malick's film Tree of Life he has made a familiar film reviewer's mistake - criticising a film for not being another film. Malick, more than any other director, has earned the ... Read More...
Quiz genius Adelephant triumphs again! Well done to Worm also, and thanks to Jonathan Law for a great quiz. Click continue for the full answer 15789 ... Read More...
This week's devilishly fiendish Round Blogworld Quiz question (see the previous ones and their solutions here) has been set by expert solver and League of Dabblers stalwart Jonathan Law. As usual, find the link between these cryptic clues. A point for each item you get, and an imaginary cream bun ... Read More...
Rita Byrne Tull continues her series of Dispatches from the Former New World... The white, gleaming monuments to America’s greatness are falling into disrepair and ruin. Rotting from within, structures once even as piano keys fall gapped and tumbled as Stonehenge. The once lavishly sculpted, shining surfaces now blackened and scarred. ... Read More...
If it is true that the execration of American cinema is its need to package, to sell something, so that the true aesthetic judgement becomes a valuation of whether the packaging has enough heft, then Tree of Life, only the fifth film by director Terrence Malick in forty years, must ... Read More...
Images of 1940s Manhattan. More here. The modern age is looking more and more like a distant historical period... ... Read More...
Dabbler editor Gaw recalls his time in Russia... Walking back to my hotel in Nizhny Novgorod in the early hours. It's too cold to smoke and the snow's so thick on the ground the only way to get around is to walk down the middle of the road, jumping into a ... Read More...
This is not so much an opinion as a fact. And to say that so-called Minimalist Music was borne out of the dope clouds and LSD trips of the sixties seems wide of the mark: Anton Webern and the other members of the Second Viennese School were saying more, with ... Read More...
The sleek curved lines, stainless steel and Formica formula of the American Diner have captivated fast food fans for nearly 150 years. From 1870s New England to Church Gresley, South Derbyshire, the American diner has a fascinating history. There’s even an online American Diner Museum dedicated to restaurants styled in ... Read More...
