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Originally posted on Contra Spem Spero… Et Rideo:
Binyavanga Wainaina lives in Nairobi, Kenya. He is the founding editor of Kwani, a leading African literary magazine. Wainaina won the 2002 Caine Prize for African writing, and has written for Vanity…

Originally posted on Being 42:
Monday 30th June 2014, 8.40am (day 1,040) After 1,040 days I need now and again to try to see something more than the usual scenes. Heavy cropping made something of what was otherwise a standard ‘train…

Originally posted on Tropical Smog:
How many different ways can you represent Brazil and soccer? Artists took on the challenge as they decorated the pay phones all along Avenida Paulista.

Originally posted on Brasil Art:
The Sao Paulo gallery MASP (“maspee”) or Museu de Arte de São Paulo is hosting an extraordinary collection of twentieth-century art, assembled over many years by Sylvio Perlstein, a Brazilian-Belgian jeweler and diamond merchant. It is on show…

By Dan Thompson – ManchesterEveningNews.co.uk June 29, 2014 More than 100 people from different walks of life came together to help restore Blackley Jewish Cemetery to its former glory A huge community operation helped clean up Blackley Jewish Cemetery after it … Continue reading →

Originally posted on The Visit Manchester Blog:
New Kid on the Block – Turtle Bay Here’s our highlights of where to be and what to see in Manchester in the coming month. Exhibitions Ryan Gander: Make every show like it’s…

Originally posted on Manchester Day: behind the scenes:
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