Congratulations and cream buns to quiz experts Adelephant and Jonathan Law. The former gets the mega-bun for a very thorough answer. Click continue for the official solution... 17034 ... Read More...
Month: August 2011
In our special two-part quiz, Brit the Elder has supplied 15 cryptic clues: see part 1 for the first 7 clues (but don't read the comments if you don't want to know the answers); the rest are below. Don't forget that to make it extra tricksy, the answers are all connected. ... Read More...
Rita Byrne Tull continues her series of Dabbler letters from America with a look at the thorny issue of Church and State... I could not have chosen a more eventful time for my first visit to America than the summer of 1969. Americans were still reeling from the assassination of Robert ... Read More...
This week we have another fiendish mega-quiz from Brit's Dad to keep you occupied in the last week of the holidays. As with the previous one, it comes in two parts. Brit the Elder has supplied 15 cryptic clues: the first 7 clues are below, the rest will follow tomorrow. To ... Read More...
Continuing our occasional series featuring some of the finest pictures in London's National Gallery, Nige looks at an under-appreciated Venetian master... These days restfulness and sheer undemanding beauty are not qualities we value very highly in the art of the past, preferring emotion and drama - hence our preference for Caravaggio ... Read More...
A message from The Dabbler to our beloved readers... Dearest readers, Today I almost wept with pride as I looked back on the week's postings, even with the repeats padding things out a bit during the holiday season. Mahlerman and Susan with their usual weekend wonders; and before them, James Hamilton on ... Read More...
This week Mahlerman treats us to some outstanding Americana... The tradition of playing music at home, all but dead in broken Britain, flourishes still in atomized America and produces, along with the reality-wannabies, a never ending stream of talent in the performing arts. And the music they produce usually has a ... Read More...
Occasionally, you'll get lucky and be pleasantly surprised – but, before you even walk through the door, you know when you’ve picked a lemon. It’s usually a hotel where the rooms cost around 100 Euros a night, as opposed to the sort where the simplest of breakfasts will set you ... Read More...
From the archives, a guest post on a great Romanian diva from the remarkable blogger Gadjo Dilo... Mr. Gaw has kindly offered me the chance to contribute to this estimable blog. I had my own - now suspended due to pressure of work – where I liked to post about cultural life here ... Read More...
Frank Key's new paperback, Porpoises Rescue Dick Van Dyke (available here) includes a trio of tales featuring those resonant figures from the American Cold War, Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers. The pieces can -nay, should! - be seen as exercises in biographical reconstruction, as many of the details are historically ... Read More...