'Up' VS 'Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs' --- my article in the new issue of The Scope.

Our production of "The Tempest" was reviewed. "Athletic, enterprising, and intelligent." Those are nice words!

"Suffused with comedy and joie de vivre, here is one of the most good-humoured and funniest versions of "The Tempest" that you will see. This trait derives in part from the skills of the comic trio of Caliban, Stephano, and Trinculo, who ( Read more... )

The Bruno reviewThe editor took out some of my spikier or more strident phrases (originally I said that people laughing at two men kissing is like people in the 20's laughing at blackface!), but it was likely for the best. Maybe I will post my version of it in couple of weeks, when the current issue is no longer on the stands? Or a hybrid version ( Read more... )

So I just saw Bruno and now I need to write a 500 word review of it ( Read more... )

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That's all.

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So.

In your opinion, what are some of your favourite / best / most important songs from the last decade?

Use whatever criteria you like. Just start throwing some names out there.

( Some brainstorming on the subject )

The twelve artists I've listened to most in the last twelve months, according to LastFM, are ( Read more... )

So I was taking a few more kicks at the now nicely-dead horse that is "which 80's Icon is Lady GaGa VERY CLEARLY / NOT AT ALL the next version of?!" on @, and some Madonna Warshippers totally got their cone bras out of the closet, blew the dust off, and went to WAR, because there will never be anyone who has such a "mindblowing" (their word, not ( Read more... )

I reviewed "The Parrots of Telegraph Hill" for the latest issue of The Scope.

Go read it!

It's weird, I hadn't eaten yet when I first read it, and I felt like it was a disjointed piece of crap. Much shame. Now that I've eaten and have read it again, it seems fine once more. Brain chemistry, you are one tricky muthafucka.