The veteran comic, known for performing in a frumpy dress and pumps, “has plans to become the first transvestite member of British parliament. ‘Or the Mayor of London,’ he adds. ‘By 2020. I feel I have to do it. I don’t like the right wing’.”
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How Many Artists Does It Take To Depict A Light Bulb?
“It’s been cast in bronze, stuffed in a jar and painted by the likes of Jasper Johns, Man Ray and Alexander Calder. Introducing one of the art world’s lesser-known icons: the light bulb.” New York’s Pace Gallery has assembled 32 artists’ take on the subject.
36 Million People, And Counting: What Megacities Might Mean For Us
“The way most cities are run has not caught up with reality,” says Slate. “More than one-fifth of the world’s population live in just 600 cities, which together generate half of global output. Yet many of these have little sway over their own budgets, planning or policy.”
If She Doesn’t Dance, No One Will Come (So … How To Quit?)
Nina Ananiashvili just can’t give up. Why? Because she changed the world for Georgian dancers. “She found deplorable conditions, no electricity, few supplies — and no pay for the dancers. She told them salaries would come — eventually — if they stuck with her.”
Back In The Day, When TV Actually Did Kill People
“It strikes me that we may be in need of a National Television Heritage Day, not to recall what we watched, but how we watched.” No one had to walk two miles uphill in a snowstorm, but it wasn’t all simplicity and HD.
Toss Your 3-D Glasses And Get Overwhelmed By Art And Technology In Montreal
At Montreal’s new Satosphere, watching movies is hardly passive – it’s fully immersive. “Now we have a created a playground for the next century,” says the theatre’s president.
Ripped From The Headlines, Directly To The (Radio) Stage!
Three months after riots shocked parts of London, a radio play takes on the drama — and it’s just the first in this season’s list of riot scripts greenlit for theatre audiences.
Where Did The Meloy Siblings Get Their Creativity? Maybe Blame Montana
Maile Meloy’s won acclaim and awards for her writing, and Colin Meloy’s an international music star with the Decemberists (and now a writer as well). How did this happen? Colin: “There was a weird level of trust given us by our parents and the greater adult world. An understanding that we wouldn’t grow up to be creeps.”
Where Have All The Big (Economics) Thinkers Gone?
Small solutions and small thinking won’t work anymore, says an economics historian. Time to return to big ideas about capitalism – in order to save it.