Tag: los angeles
Beverly Hills Cop
The foul-mouthed and the feckless: remembering the good times with the buddy cop film of the 80s.
Crash
This ensemble drama about racial prejudice just manages to avoid the risk of oversimplification.
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De Dolle Oerbier
4/5. Lots of wood in the taste, along with sherry and vanilla and a yoghurty tartness.
- Originally published: 1 Jan 2010 in Beer
Soled out?
The innate dignity of a two-tone brogue has been vigorously ransacked by the current crop of fashion twats.
- Originally published: 4 Oct 2005 in Personalia
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
After a hard winter and a week of rain, we go roadside at the opening race of the 2010 Spring Classics season in professional road cycling.
- Originally published: 28 Feb 2010 in Editorial
Ars Electronica
Is it a museum, an exhibition space or an annual festival? Or is it all three? We were none the wiser after our visit!
- Originally published: 13 Feb 2011 in Museums & Galleries
Romeyer and Die
A few thoughts on our first night at Romeyer in the Diois, in the shadow of the Vercors plateau.
- Originally published: 8 Jul 2010 in Europe
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.