This won't be everyone's beaker of wine, but it is an unforgettable evening that brings at least a taste of Ancient Greece to London.
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Book Review: The New Single Woman by E. Kay Trimberger
There's something here for anyone, particularly any woman, who wants to address the question: "How can I have a good life?"
Read More »Theater Review: The Andersen Project by Robert Lepage’s Ex Machina
This account of Frederic, the Canadian pop lyricist brought to Paris to write a libretto for a European "co-operative" project, is a deeply human story.
Read More »Theater Review: Amato Saltone by Shunt
Circulating waiters record your preferences for obscure sex acts and if necessary they'll fetch the dictionary stored in the piano stool to explain ...
Read More »Making London a Sustainable City: Is It Possible?
Can a city of seven million, with still largely Victorian infrastructure that is choked with very 20th-century traffic, become green?
Read More »Friday Femmes Fatales No 42 (Women Bloggers)
"If we assume that fatness causes feminism, then it reasonably follows that Rush Limbaugh and Jerry Falwell are feminists."
Read More »A Wonderful World: Two Discoveries
Uncovered today have been a powerful Ancient Egyptian queen and a tiny Sumatran swamp-dweller, the "world's smallest vertebrate".
Read More »Theater Review: The Sugar Wife, by Elizabeth Kuti
Into a volatile, uncomfortable, childless Quaker house are invited two visiting anti-slavery campaigners, a former captive and the man who bought her freedom.
Read More »Surprising Sanity about Sex in Britain
"The number of people having sex before 16 years old has fallen from 32 per cent in 2002 to 20 per cent now."
Read More »Your Great-Grandchildren Will Still Be Suffering from Today’s Carbon Emissions
The target of a 60 per cent cut in emissions, to produce "only" a two-degree rise in temperature, assumes a steady reduction.
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