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Picasso: Challenging the past
The National Gallery's latest take on Picasso seems to pale in contrast to recent French offerings, but Tani Burns finds it pregnant with insight.
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Naomi Klein on iTunes U
Those who couldn’t make it to the awarding of the Warwick Prize for Writing to Naomi Klein last week can now watch the entire event (and a great deal more) online. The university’s Myinsite intranet now contains a link to ITunes U, the ITunes resource for Universities, where free movies...
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Darwin’s Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins
A right Charlie: A new Darwin biography covers new ground.
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Last Chance Saloon
Michael Sinclair brings us the penultimate instalment of BOTB action.
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March of the Zapotec
The music of Beirut cannot ever be described as anything in any way remotely resembling cool; it’s most certainly not the kind of thing you would hear in nightclubs, being sung along to in shops, or even being played on the radio. Instead it is far more reminiscent of an...
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No Line On The Horizon
So far 2009 has been a bad year for big bands, with Imogen Heap’s new album being endlessly delayed, and Franz Ferdinand’s comeback proving to be something of a damp squib. And then we have No Line On The Horizon, U2’s twelfth album and their first in five years. Let...
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Esser
Esser is great. In a mass of music hungry Kaiser Chiefs fans in the core of the NIA it would be easy for a support band to get lost, but not Esser, oh no. Velvet jacketed, chain-clad, eccentric Esser kicks off with stonker ‘Satisfied’; a dramatic piano introduction which sounds...
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General Fiasco
When I headed out to see General Fiasco play the Bar Academy in Birmingham last week, I wasn’t sure what to expect from a band I had seen so often in Belfast, coming over for their first headline tour in England, away from the mates and supporters to whom they...
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Can I get a drumroll please?
In a last minute coup, Club Silencio take the grand title of BOTB Winners 2009.
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SocSpy: BandSoc
It was a Thursday evening in week seven, and the atmosphere was starting to heat up in Tempo. People had rushed closer to the stage, for a few seconds the audience went quiet, as they listened to the intro to the song “Alarm Clock.” The soothing guitar stirred the crowd...
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