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Studded with hit songs and telling a truly inspiring story, hit bio-musical Tina, The Tina Turner Musical finally plays Melbourne, arriving in peak form. Wondrously warm and vocally superb, the powerhouse lead performance by Ruva Ngwenya is a key attraction of Tina. On stage almost the whole time and singing basically every song, Ngwenya captures audience affection the instant she appears, holding the audience firmly in her palm for the …

“How can you eat that so early in the morning?” asked my friend. She gestured with a fork at the plate in front of me, which contained a softball-sized muffin... Source

Ireland’s Lake District The view from Aghadoe Heights over Killarney. Quote of the Day “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” Albert Einstein. Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news ‘Fairytale of New York’ played at Shane MacGowan’s funeral Link Shane McGowan’s funeral in Dublin was never going to be a staid affair, and so it proved. Long Read of the Day The American historian Heather Cox Richardson …

We do a lot of book clubs at work. Some of the books have been good, some have been bad, and some have been terrible. Most recently I was in a group that read Patty McCord’s Powerful, a book about the Netflix culture. While I don’t want to write a review of the book, I did want to share some of the highlights I made while reading. I made a …

It’s spooky season again, and if you know me, you’ll know I’m no fan of scary movies! But TCM has lots of other good stuff airing this month and I’m recommending two of my pre-Code and film noir features that I’ve previously covered here at Shadows and Satin. My Satiny pick is What Price Hollywood? (1932), starring Constance Bennett and Lowell Sherman, and directed by George Cukor. Bennett plays Mary …

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There’s just one month to go until the opening of our new exhibition Medieval Women: In Their Own Words. We can’t wait for visitors to come and explore the rich and complex lives of women in the Middle Ages! If you can’t wait either, then you might be excited to...

As part of restructuring my shop for the current economy, I added all of the individual In Detail publications to the Digital Whimsy section. This is an excellent way to learn about original pieces of fancy work. Each volume (except the blue ribbon case) contains directions for making your own. The compilation edition: Fanciful Utility […]

The Age reported that the State Government is planning to reduce the three stations in Brunswick (Jewell, Brunswick and Anstey) to two during the project to remove 8 level crossings. Looking at the current distances between the stations (source: Vicsig) we can see they’re pretty close. Stationkm from Southern Crosskm from previous stopRoyal Park5.432Jewell6.4631.031Brunswick7.2730.81Anstey7.9810.708Moreland8.7840.803 Platforms are about 160 metres long, meaning the distance from the end of one to the …

magCulture Live London is back! Join us on Thursday 7 November for our annual celebration of magazine culture. The day will focus on the creative power of the double-page spread, and feature a series of talks from designers and editors including:Richard TurleyInterview, Rolling Stone, Offal et alShira InbarMSCHF & A24 zines Lucy RoeberThe Erotic Review Davide CazzaroNotebookNina CarterIt’s Freezing in LA!Chris O’LearyFatboy ZineWith more to be confirmed… read on for …

Not a new theory, but the golden age of streaming really was a ZIRP thing. I mean, Patriot anyone? RIP Cool Rick.

A puzzle kata, and a possible solution. When I was a boy I had a nine-piece puzzle that I'd been gifted by the Swizz branch of my family. It's called Das verflixte Hunde-Spiel, which means something like the confounded dog game in English. And while a puzzle with nine pieces doesn't sound like much, it is, in fact, incredibly difficult. It's just a specific incarnation of a kind of game …

Consider this post a public service announcement. Not to mention a good way to kick off this month of October! Yes, you did read the title correctly. While many silent fans are unaware of it, the nearly 100-year-old script for … Continue reading →

PennLive reports “Central Pa. school district installs surveillance windows in gender-inclusive bathrooms”: as a parent of a non-binary kid I’m obviously concerned about the outcomes of policy like this but reading through the South Western School District’s justification for this policy also highlights just how much of the modern public school experience has “prison” like design qualities.

After spending countless hours trekking across Ryan Laukat’s more expansive landscapes via Sleeping Gods and its sequels, Primeval Peril and Distant Skies, Creature Caravan is a throwback to his earlier titles not only in terms of setting, but also time commitment. It doesn’t quite hit the twenty-minute duration of Eight-Minute Empires, clocking in at closer to an hour, but Creature Caravan shows Laukat in fine form, pressing his craft forward …