Nigeness

This picture caught my eye in Tate Britain yesterday (I think they recently brought it out from storage). It's An Artist in His Studio ...

The books that first got me reading - I mean really reading, and loving it - were a motley collection. I was nine or ten at the time and ha...

I've just been to see the latest Coen brothers film, Hail Caesar! - and I have to report that I was laughing from the first scene to th...

The other night,  by chance, I created a new cocktail - at least, I think it's new, and I pass it on in the interests of good cheer and ...

Happy Easter to all who browse here. And to all my Norwegian readers - God P å ske!

A year ago today, the brilliant guitarist John Renbourn died. For some reason I didn't mark this addition to the celestial jam session a...

The Monet above is one of many sunny images of the Impressionists' riverside paradise of Argenteuil - images from another France, anot...