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Notebooks - Los Cuadernos de Julia
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Notebooks - Los Cuadernos de Julia was started in 2006, and is an online equivalent to my real-life notepads, where I write everything, from random thoughts and telephone numbers to long essays and poems. The recurrent themes on the blog are literatu
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Reporting Live in Manchester Snowfall
The week leading up to Christmas 2009 has brought amazing weather. It is snowing, it is slippery, it is everything I was used to when I lived in Moscow for 20-odd years. Sadly, in the UK, particularly in Manchester, the weather like the one I went ou...
2009: The Da Vinci Year
The end of the first decade of the new millennium was rightfully marked by several events and discoveries associated with the name of one of the genuine men of the past millennium: Leonardo da Vinci. First, Nicola Barbatelli has discovered a portrai...
Visit Manchester and Sweet Mandarin
More and more people are visiting Manchester these days, and admittedly there are more and more reasons to do so. FutureEverything (festival-formerly-known-as-Futuresonic), Manchester International Festival and Manchester Literature Festival, Queer U...
The Divine Canine and the Fingers of Galileo
Back in 2005, when I was contributing to one ezine, I wrote the article about medieval cults and saints that was picked up by several news aggregators and witches' websites. My understanding of what sites existed out there had instantly expanded. It...
Buy a Picasso, Save the Planet
Pratically hours after I briefly talked about saving the planet with the help of Social Media at the monthly Social Media Cafe, the UK-wide campaign to cut down emissions by 10% by 2010 has set off an art bomb. They got their hands on an original, s...
People Vs. Artists
I know I've not written anything about Roman Polanski's arrest on this blog - but I have written an article. As always, I allow myself to do what the legal system of some countries evidently cannot: namely, to make my own mind, without falling into e...
Poodle Who? A Kitsch Touch to Creative Grooming
If you type in Google "jeff koons made in heaven", you will find a site with lots of images that I dare watch but not post to this blog (yet). Apart from those, Jeff Koons, the famous American artist, is renowned for giant puppies, tulips, and other ...
Big Brother Corporation: Without a Notice or Explanation, BBC Removes a Russian Contribution to People's War
Twitter does remind you of certain things. So today I was reminded of how I and a few others went to collect wartime stories of the World War Two veterans at the RHS Flower Show in Tatton Park in 2005. I thought it would be nice to share some stories...
