Why I quitLife and style This article is more than 1 year oldMy online chess addiction was ruining my life. Something had to changeThis article is more than 1 year oldStuart KennyI didn’t like the person it was making me, but a few strategic moves later, the calm and mystique of the game returned
Perhaps it was when I missed my bus stop so I could finish a three-minute game of online blitz chess that I realised I had a problem. Read More...
Pass notesReference and languages booksSchmeat: a tasty-sounding word, but what does it mean?Oxford Dictionaries' intriguing runner-up for word of the year refers to the synthetic meat grown from a soup of antibiotics and foetal bovine serum. Feel schick yet?Age: About six months.
Appearance: Almost like the real thing.
Schmeat? Schwat? It's one of the runners-up for Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year.
Schwat does it schmean? You know, that could get real old, real fast. Read More...
Classical musicReviewGuildhall School of Music and Drama, London
A talented team do their best to breathe life into Menotti’s clumsy opera with its B-movie score and nightmarish tale of bureaucracy and secret police It’s hard to believe now that in the 1950s and 60s Gian Carlo Menotti was perhaps the most widely performed of all living opera composers, especially in the US, where his works seemed to bridge the divide between the opera house and musical theatre. Read More...