The 2009 Manchester International Festival (2-19 July 2009) full programme goes up live on the site tomorrow, Thursday 19th of March, at 2pm. The tickets will be on sale from 3pm on the same day. Firs...
We have heard Kim Carnes’s undying classic song, Bette Davis Eyes; and some of us have even seen the videoclip. But what about Bette Davis herself? Meryl Streep in her pre-Oscar interview to the...
I am pleased to confirm that I am going to the February concert of this multi-award winning French composer, and if you are Manchester-based you can book your tickets directly from Bridgewater Hall. T...
Birmingham – Christmas Safari, originally uploaded by loscuadernosdejulia. This article is primarily about the 1950 MGM adaptation of Rider Haggard’s novel. For the news about the discover...
I’ve made a map of all the venues, listing the dates when the events are held, just to give you the idea, and you can follow the link to the FFFF website in each of the entries, to find out more. Some...
Two years ago, during the Late Summer Bank Holiday, the very first Family Friendly Film Festival hit a few venues across Manchester. Back in August 2006 I was doing The LOOK at QT Radio in the Norther...
I‘m terrible as far as image browsing is concerned. There are many images that I like, and I save them. By default, they are saved to my desktop – as is anything else that I save or downlo...
Earlier this week I read on TechCrunch‘s article about the Encyclopaedia Britannica giving out free one-year subscriptions to web publishers. Michael Arrington writes, “As an outsider, Bri...
I know that the name of Paolo Conte attracts some interest from the visitors, and I hope the video below (produced by Guiseppe Ragazzini, whose work you have already seen in Notebooks) will inspire yo...
I read “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer” by Patrick Suskind twice, although I still haven’t seen the film. The opinions of some people whom I trust did play a certain role in delayi...