Tag: lotharingia

Alsace

Squeezed between the Vosges and the Rhine the Alsace region stretches narrowly along France’s spine, flanked by Germany to the north and east and by Switzerland to the south.
To the west Alsace borders Lorraine, a region towards which it has traditionally held a superiority complex. Historically however, Alsace and Lorraine have often shared similar characteristics …

Originally published: 11 Nov 2009 in Europe

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SIaS! at the Southwark Rooms

J, J’s sister and fella and I all went down last Saturday to The Southwark Rooms to see the 6 Feet Underground DJs at their second Suck It and See! night. It was …

  • Originally published: 21 Sep 2005 in Concerts

Seun Kuti & Africa 80

Seun is the youngest son of the late Fela Kuti, the politically active leading light of Afrobeat. Having grown up in the thick of that scene, Seun now heads Africa 80, the …

  • Originally published: 25 Oct 2008 in Concerts

Hot Fuzz

Director: Edgar Wright United Kingdom, 2007 As far as genre parodies go, any British attempt to do a buddy cop movie would have to make do with American material. That’s what makes Hot Fuzz …

  • Originally published: 25 Feb 2007 in Film

Life’s a Quiche

For the benefit of the folks at home, our parents in the United Kingdom, we drew a slice of quiche on the back of the postcard. This was our way of making …

  • Originally published: 8 Sep 2008 in Europe

The Apostle

Director: Robert Duvall United States, 1997 It’s amazing The Apostle isn’t better known, despite an Oscar nomination for Duvall’s intense, virtuoso acting performance. Duvall also wrote and directed his labour of love, and financed …

  • Originally published: 12 Mar 2007 in Film

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