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Age of Empathy

Community and the Apocalypse

Why prep for the wilderness when your neighbours could loan you some toilet paper?

Jun 4

A leaf hangs on an empty toilet roll.

Jun 4

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A-Culturated

The Arboreal Trolls of Sycamore Gap

We may never know why they cut down the Sycamore Gap tree, but we know they did it with a smirk

May 21

A large tree in a gap between hills at dawn

May 21

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Netflix’s ‘Ranma 1/2’ Revitalises the Original High School Anime

This new adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi’s iconoclastic manga is still hilarious, and surprisingly relevant

Apr 18

Akane faces off with Ranma. Image: Netflix

Apr 18

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Ways the Universe Might End — But Not Today

Or how my cat is (not) responsible for the heat death of the universe

Mar 27

My cup of coffee, going cold.

Mar 27

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A-Culturated

Five Years Ago, Lockdown Made My Street Into a Community

How WhatsApp and worry pulled everyone together and kept it that way

Apr 8

A concrete hedgehog lawn ornament in London, decorated with a blue face mask during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Apr 8

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E³ — Entertain Enlighten Empower

Are You Gazumping? Gazundering? Breaking the Chain?

Understanding the sometimes baffling British real estate terminology

Apr 3

Are You Gazumping? Gazundering? Breaking the Chain?

Apr 3

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Counter Arts

Aurorae Offers Flashes of Brilliance in New Media Art

This group show by CaptiArtX at the new art’otel Hoxton is flawed but still fascinating

Mar 30

Aurorae Offers Flashes of Brilliance in New Media Art

Mar 30

Spring in the Garden of Belonging

Finding a place in the place I wasn’t born

Mar 23

A plant finding it’s place in the garden.

Mar 23

‘Megalopolis’ Collapses Under Its Own Weight

With its tired tropes and empty characters, Coppola’s big ideas get buried beneath the rubble

Mar 20

Adam Driver as Cesar and Nathalie Emmanuel as Julia kiss atop a construction girder, in Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis.’ PHOTO: Courtesy of Lionsgate

Mar 20

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Counter Arts

Edvard Munch and the Portraits that Watched Over Him

The National Portrait Gallery shows us a more sociable Symbolist

Mar 18

Visitors observe Kate and Hugo Peris (1913) by Edvard Munch, displayed as part of the exhibition Edvard Munch Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery

Mar 18

Owen Schaefer

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Born in a hollow log and raised by wolves. Now writing about the arts, culture, travel and the world.

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