Tag: cachaito
Buena Vista Social Club presents (2008 Tour)
At last year’s Buena Vista Social Club gig, only the cheap seats were left on sale. This time I was better prepared.
Buena Vista Social Club
All rockumentaries should be like this: memorable film on the great cultural discovery of the late 90s.
Buena Vista Social Club presents (2007 Tour)
My flatmate saw a documentary film about some Cuban musicians. He insisted I see it for myself. And I did, eight years later.
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Nieuwhuys Hoegaards Bier Alpaïde
5/5. Lustrous dark brown brew with a dense, lasting head. Smells like bitter chocolate and soot. Tastes rooty, smoky and sweet.
- Originally published: 13 Jun 2010 in Beer
Hardware store rudeness
Whilst passing through a hardware store a while ago, my boss noticed that all was not quite well at the stick-on letters rack display.
- Originally published: 20 Oct 2005 in Personalia
Schuppenboer Tripel
4/5. A group of former amateur enthusiasts from Turnhout have turned out this soft and fruity tripel with lots of coriander.
- Originally published: 1 Jan 2011 in Beer
Soggy Buxton
Rained off and browned off: a thrilling afternoon in the Derbyshire spa town.
- Originally published: 17 Jul 2007 in UK
A walk in Longdendale
A bleak, depopulated valley on the Manchester side of the Peak District and a symbol of the industrial revolution.
- Originally published: 21 Feb 2007 in UK
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Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
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Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.