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I remember you well, The Warrington Hotel
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— 15 Jan 2007 Stevie 3 comments

The Warrington Hotel was the first pub I visited after moving to London in the summer of 1994. As such, it skewed my expectations of the city’s hostelries: not only was the bar itself a gloriously over-the-top shrine to art nouveau glass, carve[…]

The Comics Money Pit
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— 15 Jan 2007 Tom Comment

Browsing for information on the nineties comics boom I came across a fascinating series of articles by Chuck Rozanski of Mile High Comics, one of America’s most famous comics retailers, offering a behind-the-scenes look at some of the financia[…]

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Red Hair Dye: The Story Of A Murderer
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— 15 Jan 2007 Pete Baran 16 comments

The central plot-device of Patrick Suskind’s novel, and therefore Tom Twyker’s film Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer is the development of a perfume which is so intoxicating it will enslave mankind. There are a number of problems with th[…]

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