Since my first trip there, I kind of fell in love with FACT in Liverpool. The “arts space” concept is often a really bad grab bag of unsuitable rooms to do theatre, art and a few cafes desperately trying to make up the shortfall. FACT seems to bu[…]

There had been some talk about the return of Rentaghost, in the hands of no less a personage of Joe Pasquale. What I had not realised that this was not for television, not even for a low rent satellite company. Instead it was for the stage. Though no[…]

In a move about a timely as watching the Happy Days Christmas special in May (which if you are in the UK is both unaboidable and hence oddly timely: I bring you Public Enemy: The Comic. Alright I don’t bring it to you, American Mule comics do a[…]

Unfortunately our Edinburgh correspondant is unable to confirm or deny the dread paper shortage which has hit Scotland’s capital, or indeed the effect it may have on its various scribes. However one hopes to see Ian Rankin, Alexander Macall Smi[…]

After ripping off Helvetica and Palatino, the Linotype corporation made a concerted effort when it was pointed out that the upcoming (well EVENTUALLY) XP system is to ship with something called “Segoe” that looks suspiciously like a commo[…]

In a region better known for its grapes, the owners of the wineries (or bodegas) of northern Spain have turned their attention to front-of-house impressions.
The Marquis de Riscal’s new bodega and hotel at Elciego in Rioja is perhaps the most d[…]

Imaginary City #773 “urville” from the 20 years + imagining of one Gilles Trehin. There is a book forthcoming. Perhaps this is where St Elsewhere is found?[…]

one of the more unsettling — if possibly misleading — epiphanies of being an interweb moderator was the realisation (while reading about Jack T. Ripper, possibly the tiresome p.cornwell’s VERY EXTREMELY RISIBLE anti-sickert case) th[…]

Is HALF FRENCH. Winner of the BBC wots design good for award is Concorde – a notably English word there. Well done Half French Half British British Design winner.
(I wonder if this was done in France if Concorde would even come close?)[…]

Have you been to Selfridges recently (and I don’t mean its dreadful flash heavy website)? The department store which has never had the balls to use “We don’t just sell fridges” as a slogan, has turned all punk. There are effor[…]