Month: May 2012

The Pork Gene

Pork chops, bacon, sausages, stew. Your mouth may be watering just from reading their names. Or perhaps it's gone bone-dry and you're trying desperately to rid your mind of the images....

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‘Offensive’, ‘Repugnant’: An Academic in Africa

'the senators asked to vote on this bill must have been mystified', DR reports on the fight to make homosexuality in Nigeria even more illegal. I read an interesting story the other...

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Elvis Costello & The Imposters : The Revolver Tour DVD

Elvis Costello: The Revolver Tour DVD is the quintessential live document – imperfect, improvised, unusual and reactive.   Rarely does a UK musician make his love of the Grateful Dead...

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Groof: Reality Fails

'In the best tradition of Spanish minimal techno', Codex Europa reviews Roberto Gemelin's techno project Groof. Groof is veteran Spanish producer Roberto Gemelín a.k.a. Robert...

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Too Many Batgirls

Shameful use of the word'batgirl' in the title, we'll admit. But it worked…. Early spring means more bat girls There must be something in the warm breeze. A study on bats by a...

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Band and Brand: The View from the Corporation

Music and arts fans are used now to seeing the debate on artist sponsorship portrayed from the point of view of the artist. Sacha Taylor-Cox voices it from the brand's side. What is less...

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What’s your dog really thinking about?

Do you really want to know what your dog is thinking? What if it's really cynical, fully aware that it can gull you into free food and shelter in return for some silly rolling around with its...

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On The Nature Of Self-Defeating Convictions

A missive to an estranged southern friend Although I have resided in New York City for many years, I was born in the Deep South. On a daily basis, I negotiate Manhattan's gridded streets and...

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Beastie Boy – Adam Yauch 1964-2012 RIP

It has been reported that Beastie Boy Adam Yauch lost his fight with cancer today. It's a sad day for partying, tibetan freedom and intelligent hip hop.  Rest in peace.1964 – 2012 BBC...

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City Lights Concert Series: Chips, Blossom and Hopscotch

City Lights Concert Series: Chips, Blossom and Hopscotch. News work by challenging the edge of music. …  Cathy Lane – Tweed Cathy Lane – Hidden Lives Viv Corringham –...

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Remote Flying Spycams make Sci-Fi a Reality

Flying robot cameras, once the preserve of sci-fi, enter final development stages. A recent viral YouTube video showed formation-flying quadrocopters with anti-collision technology and...

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Small Faces: Deluxe Editions

A seminal collection of songs, in the word's true sense. Unfortunately, so abused is the adjective that we tend to read on, having taken it to mean some glib variation of 'good'. In...

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Vive le Punk’n’Roll: The Grits & Gypsy Hotel

Vive Le Rock Magazine in association with Gypsy Hotel Proudly Presents: VIVE LE PUNK’N’ROLL! STARRING: THE GRIT – London’s premier Punk’N’Fuck”N”Roll...

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Head-exploding zombie ants

Let's get this straight. There is a fungus. It attacks the brain of ants. OK. The fungus causes ants to march off to a mass ant grave. Cripes. Then the fungus spores explode out of the ants'...

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Mo Fox: Poems

A Thousand Pockets Ah well, I remember you kissed weirdly because you used hold your big cat eyes open, watching me as we did it. I used close mine but opened them to watch you as we did it....

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Dopamine impacts your willingness to work

If you're reading this on one of those slick, white pieces of computer technology that are designed by a company who take great pleasure in marketing themselves as the counterculture, ex-hippy,...

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De Profundis: The Emptiness Within

'describing it as "extreme" is pushing things a little'. Trebuchet's Tim Hall takes issue with genre headings. The Emptiness Within is the third album by this British-based...

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Supersonic festival Celebrates 10 years

Supersonic is one of Trebuchet's favourite festivals of the year.  It's so good that normally people are blown away by the music… there is just too much unmissable greatness. ...

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Trace Elements: Weakending

As the week draws to its close, that trusty old question “What are you getting up to this weekend?” will doubtless be asked in workplaces across the land. Weekends are the pay-off after...

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Big girls Don’t Cry: Adolescent women resist negative body image

So linked are the concepts of body-image and self-esteem in our minds that the premise of this news article prompts a double-take. In fact, there is no reason to assume that the two should be linked...

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