Uncategorized daddy, hotels, international, puff, travel 2:01 am
He’s been arrested on weapons charges, (allegedly) punched Boyzone upstart Shane Lynch and lost friends through gangsta killings. Is there anything tame about Seán ‘Puffy’ Combs? Yes, his music. Puff Daddy is the Val Doonican of hip hop, serving the antithesis of Public Enemy’s urgent and angry beats. This is the man, after all, who made Sting’s ‘Every Breath You Take’ sound more mawkish than the original. There is, however, one good reason to attend this concert: the remote possibility that his drop-dead-gorgeous girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez, might be in the audience.
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Uncategorized domestic, erehwyreve, holiday, hotels, voices 2:02 am
Arthouse Multimedia Centre continues its programme of innovative exhibitions with this performance from Stuart Brisley. Running over three days and in a variety of media, ‘Voices From Erehwyreve’ was especially commissioned for Arthouse. Members of the public will be invited to bring a range of literature to Arthouse on the subjects: sex, politics and religion. A selection will be read aloud, with readings happening simultaneously throughout the building and on the web. The process will then be recorded as a unique archive. The organisers are also promising some minor and not so minor celebrities over the three days.
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Uncategorized coast, explore, glacier-formed, islands, northwest, scotlands 2:01 am
There’s nothing quite so beautiful as the completely foreign. If that sounds puzzling, consider the example of the Scottish Hebrides. These islands-the Isles of Lewis and Harris, North Uist, South Uist, Skye, and Mull-off Scotland’s northwest coast are a backpacker’s dream: scenic, unspoiled expanses sprinkled with friendly, Gaelic-speaking communities. At the end of the last ice age, retreating glaciers carved these islands, and the largest and northernmost of the Outer Hebrides, the Isle of Lewis, is perhaps the finest of the glaciers’ work. The island is dotted with hills and lochs (lakes) with edges so smooth, they could only have been created by thousands of years of friction. But the hills and lochs of Lewis are hardly typical: gradual deforestation has replaced the native Scottish pine with peat moss and yellow prickly grass that make the hills glow a fiery orange after a good rainfall. It is this amazing scenery that draws visitors to the Hebrides and gives a place like Lewis its eerie beauty. It’s something so familiar that seems completely and utterly foreign.
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Uncategorized dulwich, gallery, paintings, picture 2:01 am
This is the only opportunity for the public to see pictures of the Dulwich Picture Gallery’s permanent collection until the venue re-opens in May 2000. Some 58 paintings have been loaned to the Lothbury Gallery in the City of London, which will display works by Gainsborough, Poussin, Raphael, Rubens and Watteau, among many others. Some of the paintings showed have just undergone conservation work and, as such, will be revealed to the public for the first time. Admission is free.
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Uncategorized artists, muse:, museum, reflect 1:59 am
Museums are supposedly the ultimate destination for the best art of our age, and while that may be an improvement on the homes of moneyed patrons of an earlier age, it is a phenomenon on which artists have reflected critically – and quirkily – throughout this century. MOMA has gathered a collection ranging from the conceptually challenging to the downright prankish, featuring luminaries such as Marcel Duchamp, Christian Boltanski, Claes Oldenburg and Hans Haacke, providing the museum with a thought-provoking mirror of its own function.
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Uncategorized church, domestic, travel 1:59 am
It was 20 years ago today (or thereabouts) that The Church began life as one of Australia’s most original bands. With Steve Kilbey’s surreal lyrics woven around a whole bunch of jangly guitar chords and shimmering lead lines, the band made solid impressions in the UK and the US during the 1980s. However, contractual stints with Warner and Arista never resulted in the mega-selling albums record companies love, and the boys have retreated to doing what they do best – their own thing at their own pace.
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Uncategorized la, monticchiello, porta 1:59 am
A tiny walled town on a hilltop near Montepulciano, Monticchiello is a quiet, lazy place which makes for an excellent lunchtime stop-off on a tour of the area. La Porta, true to its name, is just inside the old gate to the town and has a lovely terrace with views across the valley to Pienza. You can tuck into a major Tuscan lunch here including thick, home made ‘pici’ with pesto or meat sauce, potato-stuffed ravioli or steak, or go for a lighter snack of bruschetta, salads, vegetable flans, grilled vegetables or local cheeses. Wash it down with a bottle of local, full-bodied Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. Booking is advisable.
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