Crowd Hunters of Images
remains are handled in a culturally sensitive and religiously appropriate manner presence without value is perceived as occupation today we…
A later beginner
A review of Arctic Summer, by Damon Galgut. Portraying the novelist as a fusty, virginal defeatist doesn't make for thrilling fiction
Act of Faith
Sensitive and ballsy, shy and flamboyant – this is a pop star, proud of being hard to pin down
The torture of earworms
Earworms are bad enough. But this meme might ruin your pop-listening life for ever
Raiders and traders
The BM's new blockbuster ranges as far and wide as the famously peripatetic marauders
Musical feasts
ENO’s new production of the Handel opera is a musical feast. Plus: two brilliant evenings with Opera North
Freak factory
A freak factory in Soho Theatre's The One and a genial lecture by Simon Callow in Being Shakespeare
For your eyes only
The Grand Budapest Hotel is the latest Wes Anderson film and it is beautiful to look at, scrumptious, luscious, such…
Blast from the past
BBC4’s Arena documentary shows just how biting – and tricky to make – the classic satirical series was
Long life
This ghastly event seems to be the only one of New York's many national parades in which gay advocacy groups have any interest
Bridge
Now and then an event enters the annual bridge calendar and becomes an instant ‘must play’. TGRs Auction Pairs is…
Varsity match
On Saturday 8 March the 132nd Varsity match between the teams of Oxford and Cambridge will see Oxford seeking to…
No. 304
White to play. This position is from Robbins-Smith, Varsity Match 1972. The black king has been drawn out into the…
Reunion blues
In Competition 2837 you were invited to submit a poem on the horrors of a reunion dinner. In days gone…
2152: T20 – it’s just not cricket!
The unclued lights (and 4 Down + N) are of a kind and along with the suggestion given by the…
to 2149: Super!
When preceded by GREAT, each unclued light yields a phrase listed in Brewer 19th edition. First prize Mrs T.…
