Tag: harrogate
Sierra Maestra in concert
Perhaps they were jetlagged: a muted performance from a highly praised Cuban outfit.
Lila Downs in concert
An enormously gifted Mexican singer who puts everything she has into every performance.
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
No Country For Old Men
The Coen Brothers are back on form with this grim, sharply written movie featuring an terrifyingly unfathomable Javier Bardem.
- Originally published: 27 Jan 2008 in Film
Kika
Hair-brained, frivolous and fun. But also incredibly violent.
- Originally published: 27 Sep 2007 in Film
Singing in the subway
Key intersections of urban life, subway stations are also highly controlled and sometimes cultural spaces.
- Originally published: 12 Dec 2008 in Editorial
After Dark
Not in the same league as Murakami’s best work. Not that his English language publisher would have you believe that.
- Originally published: 18 Sep 2008 in Books
Sea of Love
A streetwise city cop thriller that crawls familiar kerbs but more or less delivers the package.
- Originally published: 2 Apr 2007 in Film
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.