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independent.co.uk » The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed - Oct 9, 2008
Forget swans and tutus, Dance Umbrella are taking contemporary dance where it's never been before, using a really big mechanical digger.
independent.co.uk » The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed - Oct 9, 2008
The mind boggles at the discussions which must have accompanied the naming of Dior's new bag, the Karenina.
independent.co.uk » The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed - Oct 9, 2008
When the curtain rises on Covent Garden's La Bohème tomorrow, it will mark 34 years of continuous life for this much-loved show, and 60 years in showbiz for its director John Copley, who started his career as a dancer.
independent.co.uk » The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed - Oct 9, 2008
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Destiny and doubt: Simon Schama's tour of Americaindependent.co.uk » The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed - Oct 9, 2008 In June this year, Simon Schama found himself sitting down to dinner with a Texas rancher who held liberal views on Hispanic immigration. The Texan, "lightly snorting like one of his own horses", rolled his eyes at the … |
independent.co.uk » The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed - Oct 9, 2008
It seems just a trifle unfair that Orhan Pamuk, Nobel literature laureate and the most globally succesful Turkish author in an age, should also enjoy the best view in two continents. Across two continents, to be exact …
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One minute with...Kathy Letteindependent.co.uk » The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed - Oct 9, 2008 Where are you now and what can you see? I'm looking out at Cronulla Beach, in Sydney, watching the body surfers hurtling shoreward like human hydrofoils. I'm on a book tour and dreading having to drop my own name … |
independent.co.uk » The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed - Oct 9, 2008
Brought up in Britain and the US, educated at Edinburgh University, historian Lucy Moore (born in 1970) first honed her narrative skills on the low-life underside of 18th-century society in books such as 'The Thieves' …
independent.co.uk » The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed - Oct 9, 2008
If you haven't heard of The Wire by now, boy have you got a lot of catching up to do. Still, given the trend for cosying up with DVD boxed sets of hit American dramas such as The Sopranos or 24 over a wet weekend, it …
independent.co.uk » The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed - Oct 9, 2008
It was Andy Warhol who proclaimed that everyone would get their 15 minutes of fame, but it was Simon Cowell who made it happen. Once again, the sofa-based population is bracing itself for the business end of The X …