I declined the small hagiography offered at the door because I did not want to throw up over the sort of drivel which Hirst is famous, like: “You get cab drivers and stuff who come up to me and they go (sic) “What you do is not art, …
In this modern age of technology-inspired convenience, it’s difficult to keep track of what’s not yet possible. Here are some completely legitimate examples of such …
Italy and Spain are two powerful nations suffering extreme economic hardship. The former has a population of 61 million people, the latter 47 million. The unemployment rates are 10% and 24% respectively. Italy’s public debt is $2530 billion, equivalent to $41,475 per citizen. Spain’s is $1117 billion, equivalent to $23,766 per citizen. And the situation generally gets worse the younger one is. Each of these individuals is, in a sense, a walking embodiment of debt and a slave to financial mismanagement, yet each person still needs to be fed and watered and clothed each day. Human beings unavoidably consume certain resources, and keep doing so even when the money isn’t there to pay for …
Last November in Augusta, Georgia, thousands of needy people ate a traditional Thanksgiving turkey dinner – as they do every year – thanks to James Brown. In December, Brown’s daughters handed bags of Christmas presents to over a thousand underprivileged children. Their new academy is helping to secure college scholarships for budding young musicians. Charles Thomson speaks to the Godfather of Soul’s friends and family about their efforts to continue his little-known humanitarian work.
Most concert films are tedious. Sorry (I’m not sorry) but it seems as though every act and their roadie thinks that their fans will somehow feel more emotionally connected to them if they release a show video inter-cut with some black and white handheld footage of “the real them” arriving at the venue, preparing backstage and offering homogenised pearls of wisdom. I’ve been grabbed by very few concert films since Cocksucker Blues, Robert …
In 1967 Philip Norman interviewed JRR Tolkein for the New York Times. Here’s the scoop. It turns out that the author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings was born in South Africa, worked as an altar boy in Birmingham (England) and ended up pals with C.S. …
