Comedy old-timers Reg Anderson and Colin Ramone show the stand-up newborns how it’s done. At only a quid, what better way to start the week.
Red Raw
December 7, 2009
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The Scottish Colourists
September 17, 2009Christened the ‘Colourists’ due to their unashamedly bold use of pure colour, the work of Fergusson, Cadell, Hunter and Peploe brightens up an otherwise dreary winter.
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Raquel Bitton
July 1, 2009French jazz singer and recording artist Raquel Bitton performs her critically acclaimed show, ‘Edith Piaf, Her Story? Her Songs’, that has played to sold-out houses across America. Bitton tells stories of Piaf’s life that mirror the timeless songs which catapulted Piaf from a child singing in the streets of Paris to one of the highest paid entertainers in the world. Sung in French and backed by a 20-piece orchestra, Bitton’s tribute to the ‘little sparrow’ is a moving and emotional journey.
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Yasumasa Morimura
March 1, 2009Photographer Yasumasa Morimura grew up imbued with Eastern and Western, traditional and modern cultural values – something that stamped ambiguity onto his work. ‘History of Art’ is a series of digitally manipulated photographs, using masterpieces of western painting as a starting point. Morimura appropriates the ‘western’ aspects then adapts and converts them into something entirely of his own. Thus, Morimuri himself appears superimposed onto a Van Gogh self-portrait or Goya’s ‘The Third of May, Madrid 1808′ to produce a masterly metaphor, his personal settling of scores with the colonialist west.
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Noites do Brasil
February 18, 2009Brazilian music and culture is all the rage in Paris right now, and the Latin spirit takes over the Divan du Monde every Thursday, Friday and Saturday during this summer. The hot nights start early with a live concert, followed by DJs spinning samba or batucada, as well as traditional and modern Latin pop. A summer treat to hold you over until the city repopulates after the August heat.
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Fly over the city
February 8, 2009
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The White Horse
November 14, 2008The White Horse was one of those famous early houses in Dublin where, at ungodly hours of the day, you’d find taxi drivers and dockers finishing their night shifts or party-goers finishing theirs. Not so now in ‘Celtic Tiger’ Dublin. The White House has been revamped, rebuilt and repackaged as an airy modern bar with bright and friendly staff. Big, light and overlooking the quays, the White Horse is enough off the beaten track to let you esacep the crowds. And while it hasn’t retained any of the soul of its previous incarnation, it is quickly creating some of its own.
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SYRIË
November 13, 2008
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New Music Marathon
October 18, 2008This international festival of contemporary music, presented in collaboration with the Society for New Music, exposes Prague’s normally timid audiences to the outrageous forces of the Czech Ensemble Mondschein and the Azerbaijan SoNoR Ensemble Baku (at 7.30pm on November 19). The uncategorisable tones and disharmonies of composers Elmir Mirzoev and Miroslav Pudlák add fuel to the fire, and even the Prague Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra is drawn into the fray for the first night of this three-day fest. On November 20, workshops, lectures, videos and discussions with these composers, among others, are being held, starting at 10am. Britain’s Gavin Bryars Ensemble, the Vilnius New Music Ensemble, the Czech Agon Orchestra and the Studio New Music Moscow perform original and challenging stuff on November 21 at 5pm.
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