Tag: havana
Club nasty: a night to remember (other nights)
Getting fleeced by crap nightclubs is a rite of passage as a youth, but it doesn’t have the same appeal at thirty.
Buena Vista Social Club
All rockumentaries should be like this: memorable film on the great cultural discovery of the late 90s.
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Stasimuseum Normannenstraße
The banality of evil: a Stasi boss who ate breakfast while down the corridor prisoners awaited their fate.
- Originally published: 30 Mar 2009 in Museums & Galleries
Milan
Think of Italy and the Pisan belltowers and Roman arenas of our mind aren’t usually capped with snow. It’s February and this is Milan!
- Originally published: 11 Feb 2010 in Europe
Istanbul
A crazy city of 13m people where East meets West, Istanbul has always been a vast, confusing metropolis. Some things never change!
- Originally published: 25 Sep 2011 in Middle East
The Paper
Beyond 90 minutes, this journo movie is pressed for time.
- Originally published: 15 May 2007 in Film
Death at Intervals
Saramago is the sort of funny old man I would’ve loved to have read bedtime stories to me when I was a kid.
- Originally published: 3 Jul 2008 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.