We just rented ‘Shaun of the Dead’, which proudly bills itself as ‘a romantic comedy, with zombies’. Unlike most movies, it actually delivers on that promise. Az laughed, I found it…
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I steeled myself for my upcoming capitalist indoctrination (B-school starts next week) by watching ‘Battleship Potemkin’ on Sunday. The movie, in fine socialist form, was free for the masses – it played…
Just north of the Cam, past Magdalene College, is Kettle’s Yard. From four 17th and 18th century cottages, Jim and Helen Ede built foundations for a single house, and a singular…
I bought my gown last week. I couldn’t help but grin, trying it on: the long robes are probably one of the more peculiar and quintessential images associated with Oxbridge colleges.…
All it takes is a little Murphy’s law: the day after local papers led with “WETTEST SUMMER IN 50 YEARS”, this place starts feeling like California. In a sunshine-y sense, that…
The local weather report is lately prefaced with so many apologies, and so thoroughly riddled with qualifiers, that it’s sometimes hard to tell just what the day’s weather is actually supposed to…
Hey! You know the one restaurant in town that never seems to make it? The name changes, menus shuffled somewhat, day-glo vinyl banners proclaim Grand Reopenings, Under New Management, and so…