It doesn’t matter what Groucho or Elvis or Britney or any other one-name performer does or did… the critics won’t be placated. Changing your act to make them happy is a fool’s ...
You should know either all four, or at least one of these names: Michel Legrand, The Thomas Crown Affair, Noel Harrison, and The Windmills of Your Mind. I’ve never seen Noel Harrison’s per...
Bristol 38, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. I took this photo in Bristol almost a year ago. There’re so many photos on my Flickr, yet I’ve only ever managed to tell about a few...
Bristol 19, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. Bristol Exchange , Corn St (Old City) The country’s only remaining Georgian Exchange. Did you note the two-second hand minutes when there ...
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. Jacques Prévert, a French poet and writer....
Your response to the Valentine’s Day article featuring Shakespeare’s sonnet no. 22 in different languages prompted me to research the subject better… and, thankfully, I didn’t ...
I don’t subscribe to patriarchy, and I don’t think it should be substituted with matriarchy. I think it’s a question of equitable access, and opening doors to all sorts of things. To...
Russia today celebrates one of its annual state holidays – the International Women’s Day. As befits the status of the holiday, we are all having a day-off, so even though this is Tuesday, ...
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody’s word about them. Henry Bolingbroke, the ...
Library no. 166, Nagorny Boulevard, 3 (Moscow, Russia) Carola Huttmann has once narrated her childhood experience of visiting the library, looking for books, using the library card. I certainly share ...