Culture_society News

The Shakespeare & Modern Culture Society will meet on Monday, May 14. Guest speaker, Ava Burton will present her program, "Wenches and Witches: Women of the Bard." Who were these women and in which plays do they appear? Was a wench wantonly or merely...

Kevin Trimell Jones’ job may be complicated, often frustrating, and entirely consuming, but his goal is simple and clear. “I’m trying to help end HIV,� says the research coordinator and ethnographer (one who analyzes human culture/society) at the University of Pennsylvania... [This is a summary. To read the full article on PhiladelphiaWeekly.com, click the headline above.]

I like him. I like his squashy red face, and his big, bulbous nose, and the fact that his wife is called Sheila. I like his passion for languages, and his taste in books. I like the fact that he hasn't just heard of Halmstad in Sweden, which is where my mother grew up, and where we used to go for our summer holidays. I like the fact that he's Halmstad's hero.

Instant Noodles Dance Crew showed off their incredible skill, but the audience got to see less of them than they'd like.

"I want us," said David Cameron, "to do better". It had, he said, "been a difficult month". He didn't exactly admit, in an interview on the Today programme on Monday, that his Government was an "omnishambles", but when you heard John Humphrys mention the "fuel fiasco", and "pastygate", and the "granny tax", and the mix up over Abu Qatada, you could almost hear him wince.