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Afrocubism
Visa problems stopped an Afro-Cuban soundclash in 1996, so producers recorded Buena Vista Social Club. Now after 14 years, the original project is here.
- Originally published: 21 Nov 2010 in Concerts
Oh, we do like to be beside the lakeside
Forget Arthur Ransome, William Wordsworth and that Ruskin bloke, it’s time to get lyrical about our own Lakes experience.
- Originally published: 7 Aug 2006 in UK
Valencia
You’re only as old as you feel: the modernisation of an ancient Catalan city.
- Originally published: 11 May 2007 in Europe
Culture and Columbus in the Canaries
From here the world’s horizons were pushed further away. Today Las Palmas is capital of the Canaries and host to a WOMAD festival.
- Originally published: 3 Dec 2007 in Europe
Baltasar and Blimunda
Saramago’s breakthrough novel in English, full of contrasts and landscapes but lacking his later spark.
- 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.