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Comment on LA Confidential: the unexpected soul food of Los Angeles by Nashville Nosh: Mas Tacos Por Favor

Nashville Nosh: Mas Tacos Por Favor — Sun, 06 May 2012 23:06:28 +0000

[...] (stewed goat’s meat) at Carnitas Michoacan in Lincoln Heights, which you can read about here in my LA Cheap Eats piece for Futurespace magazine. On this jaunt to Nashville I’d been told by numerous people that I [...]

Comment on Phraseology: London’s latest music/spoken word hybrid by Richard

Richard — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:43:27 +0000

Looks and sounds interesting, couldn’t they have picked a better venue than bar music hall though? It’s just an awful venue.

Comment on Phraseology: London’s latest music/spoken word hybrid by Phraseology’s jazz/word hybrid | Molly Flatt

Phraseology’s jazz/word hybrid | Molly Flatt — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:32:57 +0000

[...] If you asked any London culture vulture to identify the hottest trends in the capital this spring, jazz and spoken word are both likely to figure on their list. From the buzz around Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming Great Gatsby adaptation to the flapper frocks that colonised last month’s Fashion Week, jazz has burst out of its earnest middle-aged-esoterica box and into the youthful mainstream. Last October’s London Jazz Festival – which has grown from humble origins to become the capital’s largest ten-day city-wide music festival – was notable for the volume of excellent home grown talent on display, such as Mobo-winning quartet Empirical and virtuoso saxophone and jazz duo McCormack and Yarde. In parallel, the renaissance in spoken word events around the capital, which have been deservedly hyped over the past couple of years, show no sign of abating. Book Slam, “London’s first and best literary nightclub” is packed every month and even offers merchandise from a cloth-bound hardback annual to tote bags and T-shirts. Literary Death Match, the raucous American competitive-reading smackdown, has chapters in 36 cities across the world, and London’s is as vibrant as any. And last month, Shoreditch House’s Literary Salon featured Alexandra Shulman reading alongside Chris Cleave, Colm Tóibín and Richard Holloway. If this is a trend, it’s not only rather old, it’s one that has serious legs. So could the hottest place to be seen in April be Phraseology, a new Tuesday night event held at Shoreditch’s Bar Music Hall? The brainchild of saxophonist Dee Byrne and author Elanor Dymott, Phraseology combines exciting new jazz acts with literary readings and short films in what Byrne calls an “attentive and supportive” atmosphere. “Jazz is composition in real time through improvisation,” Byrne explains. “Poetry or novels take much longer to complete but are essentially an improvisation with words that took months or years to complete. Spoken word is probably the closest to an improvising jazz musician, where the artist is putting phrases together in the moment. The idea was to create a cross media audience.” Of course, the combination of jazz and poetry is not a new idea… CONTINUE READING AT FUTURESPACE… [...]

Comment on Phraseology: London’s latest music/spoken word hybrid by Phraseology | Molly Flatt

Phraseology | Molly Flatt — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:31:48 +0000

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Comment on Phraseology: London’s latest music/spoken word hybrid by Poetry and the Spoken Word – Why Aren’t They More Popular ? | Second Hand Books Online

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:48:33 +0000

[...] Phraseology: London’s latest music/spoken word hybrid [...]

Comment on Interview: Ian Webster by Ian Webster: "Always designing, it's in my DNA"

Ian Webster: "Always designing, it's in my DNA" — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:58:24 +0000

[...] from a design background, Webster says it was no surprise that he eventually became a designer himself. He wasn’t always [...]

Comment on High profile egg designs set to turn heads this Easter by Interview: Sophie Conran

Interview: Sophie Conran — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:28:22 +0000

[...] What made you want to use the theme of the English Countryside for your Fabergé egg? [...]

Comment on Bompas & Parr’s futuristic food fest by Interview: Rhea Thierstein

Interview: Rhea Thierstein — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:42:55 +0000

[...] Bompas & Parr “Culinary Odyssey” event is going to be a great one as well. It’s let me really go to town and be really open with [...]

Comment on Charnwood: Going back to basics by A.J Wells: The revival of Vitreous Enamelling

A.J Wells: The revival of Vitreous Enamelling — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:04:57 +0000

[...] Charnwood arm of A.J Wells makes wood burners, some of which are finished in vitreous enamel. This is essentially a glass fused to metal [...]

Comment on Levitating meringue and insect pasta: Bompas & Parr’s mind-blowing “Culinary Odyssey” by Other Ten Percent » Other Ten Percent 3/27/12

Other Ten Percent » Other Ten Percent 3/27/12 — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:17:35 +0000

[...] Levitating meringue and insect pasta: Bompas & Parr’s mind-blowing “Culinary Odyssey” If I could pick a weird kind of writing to be the master of this year, which, I guess I can, it would be science fictional food writing. Maybe I’m just finding this stuff a lot because of San Francisco but I am seeing a LOT of like “theme meals” based around abstract concepts you should not be able to represent in food. It’s like the culinary arts are finally having their abstract crisis period which is especially weird because it kinda seems like food modernism has already happened. Maybe this is food post-modernism? Or maybe trying to map cultural movements from other media directly on to food is stupid. COULD BE. [...]