ART BEAT CLIMBING BACK TO NORMAL?
As ´new´ residents on Lanzarote, having retired here from the UK five years ago, we have seen just as clearly, and have been saddened just as severely as the indigenous friends we have made here by the devastation and continuing setbacks that covid19 has caused.
BEFORE THE TOURISTS CAME
independent publications, related to photography, history, art literature and design
LANZAROTE BROUGHT TO BOOK
LANZAROTE BROUGHT TO BOOK
by Norman Warwick
I wonder if any readers of Sidetracks & Detours have a shelf on their bookcases dedicated to works referring to Lanzarote. Surely some of you who have visited and fallen in love with the…
THE VOICE OF ANNE MURRAY
Anne Murray had a great studio-and-radio friendly voice and deserves to be remembered for recordings that became embedded in the culture of more than one generation..
In Praise Of The Poets: James Nash
I feel lucky, but I suppose like most freelance artists I have made a lot of my ‘luck’ happen!
THINGS WE FORGOT TO SHARE IN OCTOBER
Each of these art forms could survive without the other, but we seem to have found plenty of evidence of collaboration recently.
A BALM FOR THE PHILISTINES, OINTMENT FOR THE MIND by Michael Higgins
the upper room of the brightly lit Baum was thronged, or ´thrung´as one says in the dialect, overheated and loud.
A KIND OF IMMORTALITY for Helen Reddy
down the radio waves she somehow left a record, Angie Baby, on the jukebox of my mind that has stayed with me over forty years.
´I´VE BEEN EXPECTING YOU, MR. BOND´. St. Peter at the Gates.
Connery’s genius was to combine menace with a twinkling Celtic wit. His Bond was a loaded weapon. Yet there was a wryness to his performance that told you that both spy and actor were in on the joke.
THE ARTS POP UP AGAIN !
(the book) preserve the three dimensional aspect apparent in so much of Cesar Manrique´s art that could not be accurately reproduced in traditional book form.