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Originally posted on Escapism Central:
A short film from Brazil.

Originally posted on The Cook Twit:
“Another branch of Manchester’s ‘Little Italy’ is doing the business. If its pasta you need you’ll go far to get any better than The Pasta Factory in Manchester’s Shudehill” Rather than pail and wallow,…

Bury Art Museum is a secret gem tucked away at the end of the tram lines. With a confident and bold creative programme, its ability to outshine any large scale gallery in the city centre is well worth the trip … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Making Manchester:
https://youtu.be/XZOQa9hJExg Ahead of our next programme Moving Manchester: Trams, planes and smart motorways, here’s a short video featuring clips from the interviews in the programme. Cllr Andrew Fender of Manchester City Council was involved with…

My eyewitness account of police repression last night in São Paulo, originally posted at Brasil Wire. Photography is mine, with additional photo & video in a separate post. Pro-democracy protestors have demonstrated through the streets of São Paulo for four … Continue reading →

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Originally posted on Dear Kitty. Some blog:
https://youtu.be/rJ92iUPSUnM This video from the USA says about itself: Roy Scranton Reads from Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War, on Visual Radio Matt Gallagher and Roy Scranton appeared on Visual…

Originally posted on Letitia Page:
You’ve probably heard them before, the glib one-liner’s about singers, especially sopranos, being terrible musicians. If you are an opera singer like myself, you may have heard worse. Operatic sopranos have long-standing reputations as Divas…