Tag: caliphate
Granada and the Alhambra
Find a corner away from the mass of tourists and imagine yourself here in the fifteenth century.
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Grotesque
Kirino’s painful critique of the enormous pressure put on Japanese youth to conform and succeed needs no advertisements.
- Originally published: 14 Oct 2008 in Books
Inside Man
Spike Lee underscores the ancient truth that all black cops must be cool.
- Originally published: 29 Jan 2007 in Film
Malèna
Tornatore’s poetic, hormonal paean to the youthful worship of a fallen goddess.
- Originally published: 29 May 2007 in Film
The Lion roared
Covers bands will always be judged on the quality of their renditions. Fortunately these are sometimes good.
- Originally published: 27 Oct 2007 in Concerts
The End of the Affair
Greene’s quirky take on the silent suffering of the English middle class.
- Originally published: 17 Jan 2010 in Books
Who you gonna call?
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.
Shameless self-promotion
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.