"’American’ is less a nationality than a diagnosis." – Ludwig Bemelmans Bumper sticker: IF YOU LIKE CHENEY SO MUCH, GO HUNTING WITH HIM! A Letter Dear "Bird Is the Word," Rock music no longer rocks. At best, it slightly rolls. "Indie rock" should be known as "Indie roll." J. R. Did you see the cloud […]
Can the Leaping Cat Defy Extinction?
Jaguar Sale Inevitable Unless Corporate Change Means Profitability Conversing with Jaguar representatives or motor industry analysts and ‘change’ is the recurring word that crosses their lips. One of Britain’s most historic car companies is facing up to the reality of a far from certain future. An internal analysis of Jaguar prepared for Ford executives […]
Dodgy neighbour
A recent interview in the Financial Times had South Africa’s president Thabo Mbeki reiterating his much maligned policy of quiet diplomacy on the ever thornier subject of his country’s troubled neighbour, Zimbabwe. With Robert Mugabe, who at 83 has now led Zimbabwe for 27 years, having convinced his party to select him as their candidate […]
Heard by a Bird
"Fiction isn’t lies. Fiction is fibs."– Edna Ferber Bumper sticker: My iPhone Is InLove With Your iPod Did you see the cloud shaped like a freckled egg over Fox Hollow last Tuesday? Ask Sparrow "Ask Sparrow," as you may know, is a regular feature of this column, where indecisive persons submit their dilemmas for […]
THE INFLUENCE OF INTERNET AND VIRTUAL WORLDS ON WRITTEN TEXT AND THEATRE
Internet and virtual worlds (defined both as communication tools – email, messenger, chat rooms, electronic libraries, electronic audio-visual libraries – and artistic media of expression) represent the trademark of the contemporary times, molding implicitly the cultural and social practices as we speak. Since the feminism revolution and the post structuralism movement, there has not […]
The Public Art of San Francisco
So which city in the USA has 600 murals on its streets, all available for public perusal? Well, it’s the same city that has a Cartoon Museum, a Spanish Mission dating from 1791 and a Museum of Modern Art, built on a reclaimed former industrial zone. The fact is that since the 1930’s, murals have […]