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In this dreary, rained-out and recessionary summer, many in New York are finding respite in the rolling, flowering hills of Illyria.
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It’s hard to draw a line between Disney and Walt Disney. Disney is the craggy monster at the top of the mountain in Fantasia; Mr Disney created the mouse. Disney is Aladdin’s all-powerful genie; Mr Disney had a Clark Gable mustache. Disney is an enormous and sunny paradise stretching all the way to the elephant graveyard; Mr Disney... again, I can only think of the mouse.
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Peter Broderick is painfully young and unnervingly talented. Born in 1987 in Oregon, by high school he was playing whatever instrument he could get his hands on, including piano, banjo mandolin and musical saw.
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Among women of a certain age, there is no fonder topic of conversation than bad plastic surgery.
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The All England Club, home of the Wimbledon tennis championships, is often regarded as a world unto itself. Grass courts, almost extinct elsewhere, still flourish here. The 1920s are gone but the garden party atmosphere of the tournament remains--jugs of Pimm's, strawberries and cream, tennis in the sunshine.
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The simplest way to describe Slinkachu is as a London-based artist who creates very small street-based installations and then photographs them: from far away and up-close.
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“We will learn a lot about ourselves,” promises Antony Gormley regarding his plan for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. In a space once reserved for statues of generals and kings, Gormley won a commission to hold a mirror to Britain in all its messy humanity.
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In the great muddy field of British summer festivals, the Manchester International Festival stands out like a dry tent. The reason is simple: every event is an event, presenting either new work or bold new pairings.
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Jule Juergensohn has a dream. As a drummer for Berlin's Itchi Sun and self-proclaimed music nerd, she would like to see more women get their hands on instruments. “We want a music scene with more girls and women on the stages. Not just singers but drummers and bass players," she tells me in her flat in Berlin. "When I switch on the TV on a Saturday evening show I want a band with a girl on drums.”
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"This is an age which happily invades its own privacy," writes Charles Nevin in "Taking liberties" an alarming feature in the summer issue if Intelligent Life.
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