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The scene: AJINAI, BELLE & SEBASTIAN and ELECTRIC WIZARD
Promo photos show the band in traditional garb, but at the Small World Music Centre the four members wore jeans, sneakers and shirts that revealed tattoos beneath. Amps and pedal boards enhanced the feeling that we were in for something The seven ...
Neoconservatism - Where Trotsky Meets Stalin and Hitler
Their core belief—that society can be managed by the state in both its political and economic life—is equally at odds with the traditional conservative outlook and with the non-Stalinist Left. In this important respect the neoconservatives are ...
Quick Getaways: Solvang serves up lots of calories, but lets you walk them off
The quaint – some would say over-the-top – streets are lined with nearly 100 shops selling clogs, cuckoo clocks, antiques, art and collectibles. Mixed in are wine-tasting rooms, bakeries and restaurants serving fare ranging from classic Danish to Mexican....
Office Fantastic: Paul Crofts Defies Gravity at London's Fold7
The street is unexceptional. It's medieval in origin, like all the City of London, but lined with anonymous '60's spec office buildings more recently colonized by architects, graphic designers, tech start-ups, vaguely defined creative consul-tancies ...
Plucky outsiders take on Swiss giants at Baselworld
He wanted to become a watchmaker at the age of 12, when he saw his father repair a cuckoo clock. Zhang admits that it could affect him as well but he feels that he will not be as hard hit as the Swiss thanks to his role in reviving traditional ...
10 reasons we've fallen for Germany
Tip: In 1815, the first public Christmas tree was erected in Weimar. Today, raising the tree launches one of Germany's most traditional Christmas markets (weimar.de/en). 9. Going cuckoo. “Switzerland … 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did ...
The wonder world of Sidhpur's Bohra mansions
Look too closely at Sebastian Cortés' streetscapes depicting houses in turquoise, fuchsia pink and pistachio green and you begin to wonder if some unreported geological calamity resulted in the continent of Europe crashing into western India centuries ago....
