Posts by laurasan

Sublime reads…

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Art & Culture
One memorable television highlight from the 1970s was the situation comedy The Good Life. The set-up was simple: in the suburb of Surbiton in Surrey, England, a pair of couples…

Soul Power

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2009, Back Issues
Staged in conjunction with the epic heavyweight title fight ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, the event has since been under-represented, with footage at the time…

Liquid Assets

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Art & Culture
Andrei Molodkin sits opposite me in a comfortable office in the heart of Victoria. Ironically, he laughs, it belongs to a Russian oil tycoon who happens to be sponsoring his…

Birds Eye View

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2009, Back Issues
La RabiaA forerunner of new Argentinian cinema, Albertina Carri presents a dark, powerful story of lust, rage and impossible innocence. With somewhat controversial content, La Rabia tells of the life…

Message In A Bottle

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2009, Back Issues
This April, defying all rationale, Rothschild will set sail from San Francisco, California in the hope of travelling 11,500 nautical miles across the world’s largest and arguably most unpredictable sea…

Reaching For The Stars

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2009, Back Issues
  In September 2000, the heads of state of some 180 countries gathered at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Like the rest of us, they saw the millennium…

Hidden Connections

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2009, Back Issues
Klingberg’s work is made of things that surround us and take up our time and attention. Its basic raw materials are the logos from low-price store chains and mass-produced goods…

Electric Dreams

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Technology
  Lightning The Lightning GT is another example of a ground-breaking electric vehicle, this time a sports car. This distinctly British-looking rival to the Tesla roadster seems largely a prototype…

New Order

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Art & Culture
The global value of smaller and self-publishing companies was estimated at £7.3bn by the last Book Industry Study Group report, Under the Radar, with the self-publishing sector growing at 30%…