If Rainy Day has a manifesto, it is the great essay “Politics an
The online bookseller donates all its retails profits to projects. Here, the late meets in a proposed Good Books ad that’s all about change. The creatives are based in New Zealand and they call their agency . Don Draper would have been pleased with this clip, which is a kind of post-modern extension of .
In our time of virtual reality, always-on connectivity and Google Glasses, folk music functions as a kind of acoustic way-back machine. But it’s not a stick-in-the-mud tradition. In Britain, The Unthanks prove that Northumberland folk is elastic enough to merge the mainstream with 200-year-old songs and create something that sounds ultra-modern. Mumford & Sons and [...]
According to SociГYtГY GГYnГYrale, one of its traders, JГYrГAme Kerviel, engaged in unauthorized transactions in 2007 totaling as much as в \49.9 billion, a figure higher than the bank’s total market capitalization. On 5 October 2010, a French court sentenced Kerviel to five years of prison, with two years suspended, full restitution of the $6.7 billion [...]
That colossus of Cajun fiddle playing, of Opelousas, Louisiana, wrote Le Swing Cajun and he performs it in Lafayette in style with his grand-daughter Sarah Jayde Williams and the members of the band L’Angelus.
Last night, Borussia Dortmund thrashed Bayern Munich 5-2 in the German cup final in Berlin. Next Saturday night in Munich, the Champions League trophy will be up for grabs and, hoping for a less humiliating result, the thrashee of Berlin will host Chelsea FC in their home stadium, the Allianz Arena. Meanwhile, the “Grail” is [...]
“We Asians like being Asians, Siamese being Siamese, Malays being Malays, Viets being Viets. But a warning. Scratch us, there’s a snarling xenophobe behind the smile.” So speaks Snooky, the hero/heroine of Pure, the latest novel by Timothy Mo. By the way, Snooky is a well-endowed Bangkok lady boy who joins a group of bloodthirsty [...]
Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day - Part 26
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