The Filter Bubble
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Facebook, Google et al are engaged with monitoring our online activities to second-guess our consumer desires. Through the passing-on of information about us to companies, we are spied on, packaged up and…
Art & Culture
Twelve Minutes of Love
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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…
Everything is Broken
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Her focus is the authority’s alarming response to the cataclysmic cyclone that struck the delta region in 2008, killing between 150,000 and half a million people (depending on which estimate…
The Fairest Of Them All
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For a man as famously private as Bob Dylan, a remarkable number of Bob Dylan sightings have been recorded in Britain alone. There’s the time, for instance, when Bob turned…
Music Review 28
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Hollie Cook, Hollie Cook (Mr Bongo)Of late, reggae hasn’t had much success in reaching an audience outside the long-established centres of fandom. While the more abstract dub experiments from the…
What Goes Around
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Sublime: Your new album is called Long Player Late Bloomer. You’re anything but a late bloomer, though, aren’t you? Ron Sexsmith: In some ways, I feel I am. Even with my…
Music Review 27
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Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi, Rome (EMI)There cannot be many people around with a musical mind as open as Danger Mouse, aka Brian Burton, the New York-born producer and erstwhile London resident…
Far Out Isn’t Far Enough
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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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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…
