‘The Harlem Shake’? Until this afternoon, I’d missed this current teen craze. Indulging my prurient interest and my reflexive desire to crticise the rising generation, I did…
Last spring, when I knew I’d be ‘homeless’ for a couple of months, I asked on a couple of listserves and FaceBook for suggestions of radio music programs to record…
In ‘The Social Network’, the Winklevoss twins appeal to then Harvard President Larry Summers to force Mark Zuckerberg to honor his commitments to them. The scene is hysterically funny: …
I’ve not seen US coverage of Hugh Grant’s whistle blowing on the News of the World hacking. This clip from the BBC came via the invaluable Naked Capitalism…
I find writing about art difficult. I struggle, sometimes, with how to describe the artist or her art in the obligatory topic sentence. Rachel Perry Welty poses that problem. No…