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I reached Valparai yesterday with Manju. This ride is probably going to be the last ride for the year. Not bad for the year I restarted, isn't it? I will write about the ride in detail once I reach Bangalore. For now, I can only say Valparai is as beautiful as it was 15 years back, though a bit more commercial than then. It's still very pretty and still a …

Picture: Danny Kaan Tituss Burgess: The Indecisive Warrior continues at the Phoenix Arts Club, London until 13 October 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ You may have discovered Tituss Burgess in his role as Titus on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, but did you know he is also a talented singer, incredibly funny, and a huge fan of musical theatre? Yes, you probably did. That Emmy-winning performance was …

Yesterday was a day of incessant heavy rain and blustery wind, but at least we made it to the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, a visit to which remains one of the greatest experiences even Venice has to offer. It was here that the discovery of the power of Tintoretto's art inspired Ruskin to write The Stones of Venice:'Tintoret swept me in away into the mare maggiore of the schools …

Gael and Oshidori have a little bit of OOC fun.

Foxgluvv I Need To Understand But I Don’t Back with their first release since last year’s Sapphic Subtext, Brighton-based queer pop artist Foxgluvv has just unveiled new single I Need To Understand But I Don’t. The track brings together crisp electronic pop experimentalism with elements of high-energy. As punchy percussion establishes a propulsive sense of momentum. On I Need To Understand But I Don’t, Foxgluvv’s vocals are reflective, crystalline, and …

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I was flying (not this trip; I took the train to Amsterdam) and the guy in-front of me didn’t activate airplane mode, just browsed reddit till he lost reception. Then got back on coming down. I glared at him invisibly from between the seatbacks. And that’s fine I guess? Like I doubt airplane mode actually matters, planes have got to be pretty well radio-hardened. Do what you want. But. He …

Can we finally consider the Yes Men’s interventions as ‘canon’? Their ever-effective interventions on capitalism’s spectacle stage continue. At the Web Summit, a man posing as an ‘adidas executive’ announced that they were ‘launching a virtual world for the underpaid garment workers in their many overseas factories’, while a fake DJ Marshmello performed ‘All day I dream (of back pay)’ with a crew of breakdancers, while a shocking ‘live feed’ …

Strong Towns members conducting a walking audit at the National Gathering 2024. (Photo by ZED Images.) The Strong Towns Crash Analysis Studio has helped residents of cities across North America review serious crashes in their communities. Studio sessions were held in urban, suburban and rural locations across North America. In each Studio, technical and local experts — people who live near and/or routinely travel through the locations of crashes — …

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DARTH VADER STAR WARS: POWER OF THE FORCE (HASBRO) “Inside the Death Star’s detention corridor, Darth Vader is intent on snapping Princess Leia’s defiance. Accompanied by an Imperial interrogation droid, the Sith Lord enters cell 2187, determined to learn the location of the hidden Rebel base from his royal prisoner” Jumping from one caped guy in black to the next, in 1/18 scale no less! So, look, guys, I have …

The word 'ambient' is a misdirection worthy of the greatest illusionist, says John Doran, SAW2 is the work of a modern electronic composer, intent on destroying the boundaries between himself and the material of Cornwall which inspired him Selected Ambient Works Volume II (Expanded Edition) by Aphex Twin “Chilling out for me is getting [smashed] out of your head, sitting somewhere totally wasted basically. SAW2 is the stuff I prefer …

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The restless Berlin post punk scene delivers yet another high-class artifact - brought to us by Cincinnati, Ohio specialists Future Shock Recordings - on which they masterfully balance a good deal of dark abysses and atmospheric expanse against an endless succession of concentrated, precise impacts. On one hand, this stuff unmistakably carries the signature of the Berlin scene and groups like Pigeon, Glaas, Clock Of Time, Pretty Hurts, Kalte Hand …

About a month or so ago I reviewed a re-release of Aero the Acro-Bat, a 16-bit 2D mascot platformer. I rented the game back in the day and honestly didn’t like it very much. But I was glad to be able to review it again because I’m always willing to give a game a second […]