Posts by laurasan

Twelve Minutes of Love

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Art & Culture
Twelve Minutes of Love takes us by the hand into the very depths of a sensual, relational world where the atmosphere, the sounds and the touch involved in tango captivate…

An African Election

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2011, Back Issues
Ghana, the first sub-Saharan country to gain independence in 1957 after only one previously peaceful transfer of power, went to the polls. Meanwhile, the world looked on at what was…

The Way

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2011, Back Issues
The title refers to El Camino de Santiago de Compostela (The Way of St James), one of a collection of ancient pilgrimage routes running throughout Europe, that ends at the…

Far Out Isn’t Far Enough

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Art & Culture
Reading these memoirs of his four-year attempt to farm in the wilderness of mid-1970s Nova Scotia is like sniffing the fumes that must have fuelled his imagination. Ungerer depicts and…

Best Wild Places

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Art & Culture
The current zeitgeist for ‘staycations’ is changing that, and Christopher Somerville, author of Coast, with 25 years’ experience walking country lanes, back hills and wildernesses, here sets out 500 journeys to…

Wearing It Well

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2011, Back Issues
Baroness Lola Young is a truly inspirational figure. Awarded an OBE in 2001, and appointed as a life peer in the House of Lords in 2004, Baroness Young is also…
James Brauer

Feminine Touch

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2011, Back Issues
The Baby Boom years brought with it expectations for women that included being a loving mother, a meticulous homemaker and an obedient wife. Marrying after finishing high school was the…

Colourful Histories

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Art & Culture
Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz are the creative duo that are Guerra de la Paz. The Cuban-born artists live and work in Miami, and have been producing work…

Planet 2012

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Environment, Lifestyle
Sublime: Tell us a little about your background. Eleanor Fawcett: I trained as an architect. I did my undergraduate degree at Cambridge University, and then got quite interested in everything…