The Washington Post reported yesterday that China-based hackers may have broken into web accounts belonging to the Save Darfur Coalition. Save Darfur are an American lobby group advocating Western intervention to end the genocide in the Sudan, with members including Amnesty, the American Islamic Congress, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, and [...]
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Laura Marling & friends at the Union Chapel
Posted in Listening, tagged Laura Marling, Mumford and Sons, Johnny Flynn, Union Chapel, Songbox on March 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“There’s a point in the gig every night where Laura has to change guitars,” says the drummer apologetically, “And I have to talk.”
The audience laughs. We don’t mind waiting for Laura Marling, the 18-year-old whose voice is jaw-droppingly elastic, like treacle, to change from one acoustic guitar to another. Neither do we mind sharing the [...]
TV: How To Be Good
Posted in Watching on March 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
British TV drama is languishing in mediocrity, dominated by cheaply-shot, cliche-ridden fare that looks, sounds and feels like a barely-elevated soap opera (The Bill, first broadcast in 1984, still shows twice a week and yet seems stuck somewhere in the mid-90s in terms of script and style).
Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, TV just gets better and [...]
Bardens Boudoir: A Jewel in Dalston’s Crown
Posted in Going Out, Listening on March 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m getting very fond of Dalston, despite the unexpected opening of a shop called ‘Hot Nuts’ just a few moments from our front door (I can’t really blame them for calling it that as it sells nothing but hot nuts, but it does sound a bit odd).
The most recent local charm to win my affections [...]
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