Posted in Dwight's Picks, Music on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Sarah Brightman made it big singing in Broadway hits like Cats and Phantom of the Opera. Over the past couple of years she has branched out on her own and come out with a long string of hit albums that have consistently made it to the top of the Billboard 200 and Billboard’s Classical Crossover [...]
Posted in Biography, Books, Characters, Music, Neil's Picks, Nonfiction on February 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m always fascinated by those historical moments when everything lines up right and a small group of friends and acquaintances produces not just one famous person, but a whole group of historically important people. David Hajdu has captured one of those moments in his book Positively 4th Street.
Many people may have forgotten, but there was a [...]
Posted in Characters, Janet's picks, Movies, Music, Setting on January 4, 2008 | No Comments »
The last of my trio of films set in the industrial north of England is Brassed Off! This is a very emotional movie set ten years after the Miner’s Strike of 1984 (featured in Billy Elliot). The mining industry is being systematically dismantled by the Thatcher government and now Grimley, a profitable mine, is threatened [...]
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