With any absurd, wildly fantastic or outrageous anecdote about the world beyond our experiences, it is all too easy to dismiss it as an urban myth. The three men in ...
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The Dickens exhibition at the Museum of London contrives a fair representation of the city in the 19th century, allowing us to walk the very streets that Dickens himself traversed, ...
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Arriving on the tenth floor of the Blackett Building to watch Musical Theatre Society’s (MTSoc) newest performance, their big spring show The Wedding Singer, I get the feeling that either ...
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If you go down to the woods tonight you’ll be in for a surprise, as there will be a teddy bear’s picnic. Alternatively, if you go to the Blyth Gallery ...
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It is very difficult to retain a historical perspective of the present. Artistic movements only acquire recognition and an associated nomenclature once they are well established, or in many cases ...
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We would never claim to have an impressive bank of knowledge of the arts, however this did not reduce the sheer excitement felt when, against all odds, we secured a ...
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At first sight an event that describes itself as an open mic poetry night may not seem like something everyone can enjoy. You may even assume that it, and by ...
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The ease with which Ido, protagonist of The Bee, morphs from law-abiding and rather boring businessman – of the kind who present their sons with calculators for their 6th birthday ...
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I’d always thought writing opening paragraphs was hard. But no editorial challenge that faces us, here in the Felix office, comes anywhere close to the mammoth task taken on by ...
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Herman Hesse, the German novelist and poet, wandered for some time through the Swiss countryside – and wrote as a result the aptly named Wandering. His book is about many ...
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