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Date April 30, 2006 at 10:00 PM
Categories Health & Beauty
Steve Warshawer tosses around words like biodynamic agriculture, dual-purpose breeding, decentralized relationship systems and principles of transparency like the breeze tosses the feathers of his 500 chickens. As we traipse through coops, Steve collects eggs amid the gentle cacophony of chirps and squawks from his black, white and zebra striped hens, explaining the issues of concern to Mesa Top Farm. His egg, bird and vegetable farming enterprise is just eight miles from Santa Fe-eight miles and a world away over dirt roads and through numerically coded gates.
"We're moving from a more institutionally bred chicken that's reliant on industrially produced feed, to hatching and rearing our own stock that eats locally indigenous grains," he says. By local, he means produced within 250 miles of the 360 acres he owns and the 450 he leases.
A custom blend nourishes his stock: mostly small grains of wheat, triticale (a wheat/rye hybrid), hull-less oats and field peas, supplemented with a high protein soy and corn supplement. Even the supplement is locally sourced from Embudo Valley Organics.
Steve's been interested in biodynamic agriculture (a fancy way of talking about the idea of a farm as a living system, each part of the system working in harmony with another) since he was a teen in Massachusetts. Introducing outside elements into the system, like chemical insecticides, herbicides and antibiotics, or elements not native to an area, like feeds and crops from outside a bioregion, throws the system out of balance. Ultimately, the system is less productive and will fail, he asserts.
Technology in service to humans, not profits, is his mantra, and the principle by which he's run his farm since he started with 100 mail order chickens and a vegetable garden in 1994. Those first chickens, Rhode Island Reds, were too bossy, not hale through New Mexico's winters' and not big enough to eat. A more resourceful breed, in both senses of the word, was needed.
The current genetic strain he calls Barred Rock Beneficial Farm, is a dual-purpose breed. Big enough to eat and good egg layers, these birds hardily handle the chill of our winters as well as the heat of New Mexico's summers. They don't stop laying in winter like other breeds, either, providing a year-round source of eggs.
These birds live free range, separated by age, with a few roosters proudly strutting among the hens. They provide manure for the two acres of vegetables the farm grows each year. The farm has had as many as 800 chickens, but Steve's customers expressed dissatisfaction with the quality of the eggs when at this peak of production. "I don't know what it was," he shrugs. "But we listened, cut back and have found a good balance."
He also found a unique solution to the problem of too many chickens. "I found other producers, mostly ranchers and farmers already used to having livestock, who were willing to take the hens and sell the eggs. That's how Beneficial Farm started."
The Beneficial Farm and Ranch Collaborative, as it is now called, comprises 12 farms and ranches operating under its collective non-profit umbrella in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. Six of those independent farms produce eggs, using the feed and stock regimen Steve developed. Others produce honey, vegetables and fruits and soon, beef.
"By relying on local stock and local small grains to feed the stock, we also increase the relationship between local producers. We all save money on transportation by pooling resources, rely on increased purchasing capacity for supplies and have more bargaining power with retailers."
Though the individual farms use all organic principles, the collective has chosen not to pursue organic certification from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. "Organic as a label is like natural as a label. It doesn't mean anything anymore. The organic industry has been taken over by large scale industry that doesn't adhere to the idea that locally grown food and related products should also be raised with appropriate scales and ecological practices in mind."
Instead, the Beneficial Farm and Ranch Collaborate promotes a new paradigm in agricultural product branding, he continues, one that reestablishes the connection between local farms, ranches, independent stores and their customers.
"The name Beneficial, and the label defines a set of beliefs and meaning for us and our customers. We know that we are using humane and appropriate livestock techniques, appropriate farming methods for the area and that all our members are adhering to our internal guidelines." Quality assurance for the collective's retail partners is guaranteed, too, providing a potent venue for local farmers to sell their products to eager consumers. The demand for their products exceeds supply, Steve adds, pointing to a true resonance with customers.
"We've worked with retailers like Cids in Taos, Whole Foods in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, and the La Montanita Co-ops in both cities to determine pricing. We showed them that consumers are willing to pay more, sometimes 50 percent more, for beautiful, tasty, well-presented local products. The flavor, freshness and appearance guaranteed by the Beneficial Farms label means something to them."
The farms and ranches of the collaborative are learning from one another, too. "This year, we're using our experiences operating a CSA (community supported agriculture) effort in Colorado to form one in New Mexico. By pooling resources, farms can bring a better mix of vegetables, eggs and other consumables to market, supported by members of the public who buy shares," Steve says, of the decentralized relationship system that keeps collective members working in harmony.
Steve's marketing savvy and understanding of economics, honed through years of experience, trial and error, and a philosophical base from his three years at St. John's College have brought this marketer turned farmer full circle.
"Our goal at Mesa Top Farm is to become economically self-sufficient. We aren't there yet, and have subsisted on a combination of outside work, grants and money generated from the farm. Our goal is to create an endowment to support the maintenance, operating costs and salaries of the farmers. But restoring this way of life doesn't generate enough revenue to support itself. We need an alternative source of income to support it."
Toward that end, Steve plans to sell part of his farm for home sites. "We've got Santa Fe priced land here and we sit on a natural seismic fault that had resulted in springs for water." Even this project, though, is being conceived with a sense of sustainability in mind. "We'll have several hundred acres of open space that must remain that way in perpetuity," he adds.
Once the endowment is in place, and Steve can turn over daily operation of the farm to other, younger folks, he'll concentrate on developing more members and outreach efforts of the collaborative.
"I started out marketing and working for farmers, always wanting to be the farmer. Now that I've been the farmer, I'm interested in being the marketer and teacher again."
Beneficial Farm produce and products are a must at local, natural food stores and farmers' markets in the area. For more information on Beneficial Farms and Ranch Collaborative, visit www.beneficialfarms.org


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It's one of those things that gets asked all the time. Just why are payday loans so expensive? The APR rates on them are 300, 400%, surely someone must be making an absolute fortune out of them? You know, ghastly people profiteering from the misery of the poor?
It's not, actually, quite that simple. The thing is, lending small amounts of money for short periods of time is simply going to be expensive. You do have to have a place where the work is done, an office or a shopfront. Someone has to be employed to make the loans and receive the repayments. There are simply costs involved. Imagine that you need to charge $10 per loan just for these costs. This is nothing to do with the interest rate mind, this is just what it costs for someone to walk and say "I'd like to borrow $200 please" and for you to decide whether to lend it to them or not.
They borrow it for two weeks, that $10 is 5% of the loan. The thing is though, everyone now calculates that lending fee as an annual charge, as an APR. If the money were rolled over 26 times, to make up the 52 weeks of the year, that fee would be charged 26 times. Even ignoring compounding this becomes a 130% APR.
Note that so far no one has actually even been charged any interest but we've already got an APR of 130%.
This much is obvious to anyone who thinks for a bit about this subject. Part of the very high APRs is precisely because we are adding a fixed fee, charged for a short period of time, up into an APR. It's an artifact of how APRs are calculated.
And now for something I didn't know until today. Via Felix Salmon, what's the default rate on such loans?
Look just at the default rate of 6% or so. It's easy enough to get confused by this. But that is a 6% of all loans made default.
In fact, Felix appears to get a little confused on this as well for he says "Meanwhile, the payday-loan default rate has been hovering steadily in the 6% range — reaching its peak before the financial crisis, interestingly enough — and acting as a silent rebuke to anybody who would dare to argue that interest rates in the triple digits are necessary to make up for the fact that so many payday loans go bad. (In fact, they're reasonably safe, if only because they're secured by a future paycheck.)"
Well, let's think a little about a 6% default rate. These figures are for loans that run from 14 to 30 days. That is, if you lend out $10,000 in accumulated loans then 30 days later $600 of them will have defaulted. Or at the shorter end, after 14 days $600 will have defaulted. Sticking with 30 days, so, how much interest do you have to charge on the $10,000 to only cover your default rate?
Well, you're losing $600 to default so at minimum all of the money loaned out must make you $600 to make you whole (actually, it's interest on $9,400 must make you $600 to make you whole but we don't need to go that far, let's stick with round numbers).
So, we've got to charge 6% per month interest just to cover the default rate. Without compounding that's 72 % a year. With compounding that's 101% a year. So we really are into triple digit interest rates just to cover the default rate alone. If we take it as being 14 days then it's 26×6% or 156% without compounding and you can work out what it is as compounding as a little exercise in math useful for the modern world.
So let's add these together. We've a, I think we'll all agree, very reasonable $10 fee for making a $200 loan. It would cost that just to have the infrastructure capable of making the decision. And we've a 6% default rate. If all loans are 30 days then we've a, without compounding, 12×5 plus 12×6 interest rate expressed as an annual rate. 132% and recall, that's without compounding which the APR calculation insists we should do.
If all loans are for 14 days then we've 26×5 plus 26×6 which is 264% as an annual rate. Again, before compounding so this is lower than the APR rate. And recall, no one has made any money here (well, except those who have defaulted on their loans) and no one has even charged any profit. All we've done is cover the cost of loaning the money plus the default rate. There simply isn't a profit in this yet.
All of which is the reason why payday lending is simply very expensive. For there are fixed costs that must be paid in making the lending decision, having the physical infrastructure to make the loan. There's a default rate that must be covered. Lending small sums of money for short periods of time is just an expensive thing to do. Therefore borrowing small amounts of money for short periods of time is an expensive thing to do.
And there just isn't any way out of this as long as it remains legal for people to lend and borrow small amounts of money for short periods of time.
If you lend or borrow large amounts or for long periods of time then the arrangement fee becomes negligible as a percentage of the loan and thus the APR falls. If the loan is secured in some manner or such loans are only offered to the creditworthy then the default rate falls and thus so does the APR.
But it just does have to be pointed out. Lending small amounts of money for short periods of time is expensive and therefore so is borrowing such.

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"Done," according to Mike Dunleavy, as of a little after 3:30 p.m. PT.
that is the most relieving news i've heard since I heard in the history of my
clipper fandom. ok a bit dramatic… but would any of you have been REALLY surprised if this thing fell apart?
Thanks KA! Kickin asses all over ESPN…
The Grizzlies are so generous.
Now sign Sessions and Moon to fill out the roster!
When I got the Clippers text, I swear, a slight tear of joy fell down my cheek…
(And yes, I completely expected it to fall apart.)
Welcome back QRich. Hope that back doesn't tighten up on the bench.
Agreed jgroove agreed!
I was leaning more on that this deal will fall apart.
Get Earl Watson (who was just waived by Thunder) and reunite with his Bruin backcourt mate Baron. Earl can be that "glue guy" off the bench at both guard positions (he played SG b4 at UCLA) and he's a solid defender, not to mention, high Assist/TO ratio.
Totally agree…but how much would it cost the Clips salary wise?
as a ucla alum (and i was there when he was playing) i don't really think earl at the 2 guard is a good idea. he is a pretty bad shooter even in the nba.
it would be interesting though, if he'd take the low level exception (which he probably wont)
There goes that idea…just like Dahntay Jones…
salute to z-bo. i was there in phx for the admunson hit. was looking down and missed it, but i was there!
also happy this deal went through.
What about Tinsley for back up PG? Once the Pacers finally let him go that is. Word is he's in great shape. Or Nate Robinson over Sessions? Since the Knicks won't match/more open to sign and trade
your kidding right ?
if sterling wants to boost attendance why not sign Little Nate? Tinsley is more of a last ditch effort but when he was allowed to play he was good, good enough to be a back up PG.
i believe Nate would sell more tix than AI. it's the shelf life. AI is just way more played out from a fan perspective (love him or hate him) wheras Nate's shit is still sort of fresh and entertaining.
i meant tinsley.
according to this article dunleavy wants seesions and sterling prefers iverson
Its two guys viewing the situation with two different pairs of eyes, Sterling sees Dollar Signs in Iverson, Dunleavy sees Assists in Sessions.
Totally not surprised by Sterlings myopia.
well he somehow got a starting job at the All star game last year so its understandable.
Z-bo can now get back on his regular routine of assaults, smoking blunts, hitting bars and driving his Rolls home afterward… Thank you Z-bo for not getting arested for the last three weeks… Well done!
I wish I could say I had faith in you, but…. Well, good job.
Any one ever watch the MTV cribs episode featuring Zbo? As usual he had an enormous house, a few whips, and other toys.The interior decoration was nice, had some nice furniture and his wife went up to his stomach. He looks very tall in street clothes .
I enjoyed his short term help on the court.He Made the Clippers competetive most nights…. tears ..
I won't enjoy Z-bo's poor defense and horrible shot selection (attempted 3-pointer against the Cavs end of regulation). Our black hole is gone.
One more black hole to go… If we can get rid of Baron and not have to take back any bad contracts, think of the players we could get for the 30-million (between Baron and Zach) we would have just gotten off the books…
Honestly, I still have hope for Baron. Hes at least shown in his career that he can lead a losing team to a playoff berth multiple times. He did it with the Hornets and again with GS. AI on the other hand had his best years with Larry Brown and even they fought like cats and dogs about every little thing. I think Baron knows his best games come is when he makes others better, and with the young guys here with so much potential, I think he'll be working hard to set them up they way they need to be set up. I think Baron will adapt to not having to be the primary scorer much better than a guy like AI.
i was there for the game when he shot the 3 with eric on one wing and novak in the corner i was pissed i yelled what the hell are you doing and somebody told me he's doing it for his dad i said who cares you play to win(he's dad died that day)that was a good game who would have tought mo willams would make a 28 footer to put the game into ot.Anyways sad to see him go even if he is a black hole he's a 20 and 10 miss understood guy he got the dui after he's pops died i hope that was the reason but now it's time for the year of the blake and i hope and pray the clippers truly arent cursed and he plays every game in a clipper uniform healthy for the next 15 years when the donald is long gone and the clippers are bought by me and my investment team.Sign desmond mason leave sessions alone and everybody else sign desmond mason to play starting smaill foward go clips
The more I think about it, the more I hope the clips go for Iverson. He's got a black eye right now(after the Nuggets were so much better without him). I dont think we are gonna get Sessions. If it by some chance works out and Iverson accepts his role —its a home run. If not, its a one year deal–trade him, cut him, send him home. But IF it works(huge huge if) the clippers will get a lot of exposure. We need LA to become a desired FA destination.
As a businessman and a basketball fan I would make this deal happen. There has got to be a very short leash though.
no, if iverson accepts his role its a one year deal. If not its lots of dribbling, lots of shooting, lots of missed 3′s, no defense.
I like Iverson, but you know he's gonna blow off Dunleavy's play calling. Then Dunleavy will sit him and he's out with a bad back for the rest of the year. He put in Q Ross instead of Maggette cus of matchups or what ever.
Looks like the Knicks are targeting Sessions.
AI and Baron have something in common, stars with hurt egos. Look at wade last year , he was embarrassed the year before and came to prove he still has it. In no other sport is a motivated star more lethal.
still don't get the hate for Baron. People act like we were a good team before Baron Bull crap Baron had a bad season give him a break.
Ramon Sessions, Raymond Felton, Nate Robinson, Marvin Williams, Jamario Moon, Hakim Warrick,Von Wafer,Desmond Mason,Matt Barnes,Allen Iverson, Anthony Carter, Bobby Jackson,- All free agents that i would be looking at if i was dunleavy
I keep reading sterling wants AI because of ticket sales. Season packages will be down but I have no doubt once the season starts and ppl see how good Blake is that single game sales will be high. He has to accept the fact that clipper fans just got smarter. We don't want to fork over for 82 games of crap.
Whether it's for ticket sales or not, AI, if he's willing to come off the bench, will provide good scoring for the second unit. Who cares what Sterling thinks. He was wrong so many times before.
For some reason i just see Charlotte as the best place for AI. I understand Sterlings perspective but I dont think he's really considering all the finer details of what adding AI actually means on the floor. I have lots of love for AI but he just seems like a square peg for the round hole we have on the roster.
There is something to be said though for getting AI as a trade peice, but I think many other GMs worry about his impact in the locker room as well. The only coach who could really channel and focus AIs bountiful energy into something productive has been Larry Brown. After 12 years, thats kind of a huge warning sign.
I think people are really being fooled by our bench scoring last season. We really had a hard time scoring the ball last season with our 2nd unit. We did not have a go-to scorer at all. Nobody to create their own shot. When it was time for our starters to get a rest, this is when the opposing teams made their run, since we didn't have any firepower at all off the bench. We need someone who can bring a spark off the bench. If Iverson is willing to be that man, I don't see the problem with signing him. He can rack up points in a hurry. Last time I checked in the NBA, the team with the most points usually wins. Bring AI in. He's exactly what we need for our 2nd unit.
Thornton is a guy that would be great in that 2nd-unit scorer position.
Personally I'm not convinced that Iverson would put fans in the seats. He's not the player he once was and his reputation has taken a hit. I have to believe that a player that could actually make this team better would have a better impact on ticket sales than Iverson.
I've been sold on Sessions since he put up that flurry of big stat lines at the end of his rookie campaign, and reading articles about his strengths and weaknesses (thanks Kevin) has convinced me further. This is a good opportunity for the Clippers to show that they are serious…we'll see.
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Purrx is fucking real!!!
dear leticia who should i see to be prescribed a cat
Hi everyone! I know I haven't been around that much lately, but I've not only been busy in the "Real World", but also busy in my personal life. And this post is to announce with great excitement and glee that…
Purrx is on.
Or, in other terms, FoxChaos and I are dating. She's my girlfriend, and I'm incredibly happy. *giant, pleased smile*
Okay, okay, sappy post is over. XD Just wanted to be able to say it. :D
FoxChaos and I are going to do another one of our drunken reblog stories tonight.
FoxChaos and I may be doing something like already planning out the sequel.
And maybe to the point that the possible sequel has plot.
Just thought you guys might like to know what could be happening right now.
Since she's announced it, and I'm giddy enough to announce it myself:
FoxChaos and I have officially been together for a month!
A wonderful whirlwind of a month. And don't listen to her - she deserves the chocolate and hugs and bling more than I do. :D
Alright, enough cheesiness. Back to regularly scheduled cats and drabbles and Glee-related things~
We are practically passing out, so we'll pick it up later tonight. Thank you, and good night.
More g!p smut is going to be happening on your dashboards, courtesy of "Purrx".
…I can't think of much else to say. But if any of you have thoughts, don't be shy to share them. :D
(Also, FoxChaos and I are currently in discussion to see if we should continue or end it there, so the full, all-collected post of the story shall happen after we figure it out. Thank you.)
Edit: We're continuing.
Edit again: We're not continuing. Think of it as it's a finished story with a sequel happening later. With waking up again sex… Shower sex… Was this morning real? sex… Where do we go from here? sex… And so on and so forth. …Sex.
Have already planned out and planned writing a third entry into the series, a completely unrelated Gabrisantinchel story, and another completely unrelated Artchel Bromance AU story.
foxchaos replied to your post: Oh god. Now I need to come up with a fricken' plot…
sjadasjkhfaskl. I can barely make my own plot summaries! Also I'm kinda distracted by the CONTINUOUS church bells that have been going off ten minutes right next door.
Collaboration with FoxChaos. Santana wakes up in Rachel's bed with something Rachel, after a couple seconds of surprise, is all too happy to take care of. Rated M for Pezberry g!p smut with the barest hint of plot. One-shot, complete.
*snickers at the lameness* Well?
And damn church bells. *shakes fist at them*
foxchaos replied to your post: Excellent. We share that word then. You have great potential, I rest easier with you being the world's saviour knowing that you are made uncomfortable by that word.
This is very unfortunate considering I'm obligated to help a friend conquer the world. OMG WE'RE STAR-CROSSED.
From Wikipedia:
"Star-crossed" or "star-crossed lovers" is a phrase describing a pair of lovers whose relationship is often thwarted by outside forces. The term encompasses other meanings, but originally means the pairing is being "thwarted by a malign star" or that the stars are working against the relationship.[1] Astrological in origin, the phrase stems from the belief that the positions of the stars ruled over people's fates, and is best known from the play Romeo and Juliet by the Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare. Such pairings are often but not always said to be doomed from the start.
The phrase was coined in the prologue of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet:
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life" (5–6).[2]
It also refers to destiny and the inevitability of the two characters' paths crossing each other. It usually but not always refers to unlucky outcomes, since Romeo and Juliet's affair ended tragically. Further, it connotes that the lovers entered into their union without sufficient forethought or preparation; that the lovers may not have had adequate knowledge of each other or that they were not thinking rationally.[1]
So… You sure you want us to be star-crossed if we can help it? While romantic, I would prefer us not to be doomed. XD
But then again, if we truly are, I say… Bring it on.
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You should add in Santana giving Rachel anal. Just saying.
Yes, yes, one day we probably should. I'll have to talk to Foxchaos about it first, though. :D
The actual reblog story with FoxChaos is going to start now. Yes. "Make-up smut". The best kind. *grins*
santanalovesrachelsberries replied to your post: santanalovesrachelsberries replied to your post:…
Nah I was joking, it all started as a joke you know. The fact that you two actually ended up together was just like aksjdhsakjdhaskjdhaksjhdaksjdh - I'm so happy - stroke xD
Yeah, I figured you were joking. I just used the opportunity to gripe/explain what I meant. And, I know, right? We just ended up that way. XD Thank you! Your support is, seriously, very much appreciated! :D
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Australian fan/stalker here again. Just letting you know for the second day in a row, you are the reason I'm not leaving my computer. Loving impromptu story time!
Aww, glad to facilitate computer time! XD
No, but seriously, thank you. :D I'm so glad you're liking what we're doing. :D
foxchaos replied to your post: So last night's drunken reblog fic (otherwise known as 'Perfect')?
Shhh, shhhh. There's no plot here. Only smut. Lots of angsty smut all the time. No plot whatsoever.
Oh, right. You're right. No plot. None. No emotions, even. Just straight up 'wham bam thank you ma'am'. Right.
foxchaos replied to your post: phoobar replied to your post: Well, at 11,173…
Pffffft. What ever gave you guys the idea that Purrpickle and I would lower ourselves to such standard- oh… wait… Nevermind. Too late.
What are you talking about? I would never stoop so low to ever write such smut - oh. Right. Well, this is awkward.
foxchaos replied to your post: foxchaos replied to your post: foxchaos replied to…
That was my face when she left me D;
Now seriously. Where is she? I haven't seen any of her posts in the Pezberry tag xD
foxchaos replied to your post: foxchaos replied to your post: WHAT IS GOING ON…
THAT IS MY FACE RIGHT NOW. (really. i swear.)
hahahaha xD
Me after reading your post ->


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Ten Affirmations for Fiction Writers for Today
I was quite struck by the headline "20 Young Writers Earn the Envy of Many Others," which is how the New York Times announced the New Yorker's "20 Under 40" list of fiction writers last night. Two things: hooray, "under 40" is young now! I mean, "being in the first or early stage of life or growth"? Our culture has delayed adolescence so extraordinarily far that 39 is young! Fine by me, selfishly. But also: envy? Oh, no! No, no. No, my lambs!
There's nothing to envy about being on a list. Absolutely, it's quite understandable that a number of fiction writers have spent the last month or two in a state of extreme irritation-a number of people were encouraged to drop everything and produce new short fiction for review by the New Yorker. So, there are more than a couple agents getting yelled at right now! And the annoyance is understandable. But also: that's business, folks. Part of "work" these days is writing things on spec, or for free, or as an audition. It often blows! Let's woman up about it though.
Here's a few things to remember today.
1. No one took anything away from you. ONLY YOU (and the state! And your children!) CAN TAKE THINGS AWAY FROM YOU.
2. Some people being "elevated" (dubious usage) or singled out doesn't harm anyone else.
3. If you're lucky, you're like me, and impulses towards envy are motivational to you. I have a competitive streak and when someone shows some "success" (which, by the way, never feels much or for long like success when it's you), that means it's time to get to work.
4. Who wants to be on a list? I mean, first there were HUAC lists, and now this? No list ever comes to any good!
5. Besides, in five and ten years, annoying bloggers (are there any other kind?) are going to do the "look back" on this list and they're going to be like "Oof, five of these writers were never heard from again and one drank himself to death and two got divorced hideously and wow, that one was sort of a flash in the pan!" Who wants to be subject to that?
6. You look really pretty today! I mean, probably not as pretty as Joe O'Neill, but he's not on this list either, because he's like, 45 or 46 now.
7. Some of the people on that list are, believe it or not, still poor. And probably have terrible, awful apartments. How many wonderfully too-long books of crazy alternative mixed-genre fiction do you think Chris Adrian has to write before he pays off his med school loans? I would estimate 6000 of them.
8. Maybe you should act out over this and start a revelatory blog! Or a fun Tumblr! Just think of how many more people would buy your books if they were reading your bloggings. (Nineteen? Twenty?)
9. We return again and again to the issues of "false leveling." (This syndrome needs a better name! A catchier one.) But what happens is, someone gets some "attention," and suddenly, in our monkey minds, they're elevated from us. And sure, a list like this brings some cash. But, for starters, get your head out of the publishing bubble. Yes, the agents will be working this. But most of the payment these people will get is actually of the attention variety-within the publishing industry. So they'll sell another book. Great! Still, you know what attention does for one, on a daily basis? NOT SO MUCH. Nothing, at least, that you can't do without being on such a list. You know who doesn't really care much? Actual book readers.
10. The New Yorker has a million subscribers. That's great! And we wish it had even more! I am one! But, you know, eh, a million. Twice that many Americans are in jail. Sarah Brown's Twitter has 1.12 million subscribers. (Who? Yes: Gordon Brown's wife.) You, just like the New Yorker, could have a million subscribers by the end of the month, if you wanted to. So get cracking, buddy.
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Where ya been Miles?
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Re #1: Spoken like a man who's not allowed to get married.
Re #2: Tell that to the people of New Orleans.
Re #3: Envy only brings out my homiside.
Re #4: Tell that to Oscar Schindler's friends.
Re #5: Brian Moylan should do that listicle.
Re #6: Thank you! I shaved my back last night.
Re #7: I'm still poor. This is still about me.
Re #8: I think picking random fights at the OTB after Arlington Heights finishes the 6th is a better way for me to act out.
Re #9: Current actual book readers in America: 12.
Re # 10: Fine.
Re: Re: #6: Itchy! You should wax.
I come from a long line of "content producers," and I can honestly say that envying some young writer who's getting attention when you think you deserve it is a terrible feeling. If you have something to say, then you naturally want other people to hear it.
There were a few years there in the late-1990s when I couldn't open a New Yorker without seeing someone I knew as the featured fiction writer or poet(s). I wrote to one of my old professors about this envy I was feeling, and he basically said: "Get over it, ya dick." It's vanity, ultimately, that makes us feel this way, and vanity is at the root of almost every bad thing in the world. It was good advice.
If, instead of fretting over "writing," more writers simply read–and widely–then I think all of us would-be "content producers" would be a lot happier. For most of the writers I know, their compulsion to write grew out of a compulsion to read.
Emily Dickinson kept most of her 1800 poems in her desk. Julia Child didn't have her first French meal until she was 36. Thomas Hardy didn't publish his first poetry until he was 48. There is world enough and time for all of us to say whatever it is we have to say. In the meantime, frolicking in the garden of aesthetic delights that is our world of English-language letters is a great way to while away the hours.
Look how lovely you are!
@Lawyergay, @Choire:
You are both so wise. May all who would waste time grumping over this list take heed. I'm a voracious reader and probably only know and/or care about the work of four or five people on this list, at most.
Perspective is all.
(And you both look pretty today as well!)
I just make my own list.
@LG: My vegetable love for you grows!
Marvellous, darling.
"two got divorced hideously"
(I mean, I hope not. But I had that thought, too.)
Win: "Twice that many Americans are in jail."
Doesn't "20 under 40" violate the official Awl Age Ratio Protocol (AARP)?
That's hot.â"¢
"If you're lucky, you're like me" UH-HUH.
For me at least, there's this weird double-whammy of envy calculus that happens with age and success in combination. "Here, look at these people who are more successful than you" doesn't hit me nearly as hard as "Here, look at these people who are your age or younger and more successful than you." I guess it's the manifestation of "time remaining to kick ass", which makes me feel like a train is bearing down on me.
I have major issues with Carey Mulligan and Evan Lysacek; my issues are very time- and failure- centric, less genre-specific. But Mary's life coaching is helping me try to be the person I want to be (where do I send my tithe?).
Didn't you say you're like 23? You should be worrying about your next beer, not train schedules. Relax. There's mucho time.
@saysthats: Heh. That's what I always tell the kids, too. Keep 'em occupied and distracted; we don't need to be looking over our shoulders every two minutes.
I'm 23 on the outside but I have the creeping fear of failure of a man twice my age!
More reasonably, I grew up in the super achievement-oriented suburbs of DC, and won't be able to stop striving till I own some sort of company or something. It's a sickness and I'd surgically remove it if I could (no I would not but still).
You should try heroin for that. It works wonders on your motivation.
Garge Carey Mulligan is 25. So there is that.
@saythatscool – You must be the sort of friend my mom always told me not to make.
Oh he totally is. You really have no idea.
Whoa, careful. Don't be listening to saythatscool and his hippie talk. You need methamphetamines. And you're welcome.
Why am I only 25 and feel like I'm Calvin Trillin old?
If it promotes/encourages/pays for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to produce more books the caliber of Half of a Yellow Sun, then excellent/more/please.
Think of them all as Gretchen Mol. 15 years from now they will be the answer to every blind item about a writer who has to blow Harvey Weinstein so they can write some under five bits for a sitcom.
Sorry, i'm still stuck on the being young part, despite careening towards 40. Did someone say something?
I have not read any of the featured authors because none of them is Thomas McGuane. Ergo, this list does not speak to me in the way that, say, "A 20 writers under 40 who write almost as good as Thomas McGuane" list would.
That list would set me on fucking fire if I were not on it.
Thank you for this. I was sitting frozen at my computer, steaming with rage and envy, my mind reeling with grand New York literary conspiracies designed to keep me locked out.
Now I feel a little prettier at least. Almost pretty enough, in fact, to pick up a swimsuit with two-inch inseams.
Choire, I think you confused my "creeping sense of personal decrepitude and irrelevance" with "envy." An understandable mistake, but it's a meaningful distinction, isn't it? Maybe? Please?
I don't even know you and I hate your guts. I hope all the bad things in life happen to you and you alone.
Also: I want all hot tubs cold.
Once I'm published I'll worry. Until then this isn't really about me, it's just a list of people I've mostly never heard of or am not really impressed by. And the ones I have heard of and like deserve to be on any such list so, you know, no big deal.
Wait so, the question mark goes OUTSIDE the quotes? GOD Choire, you've really messed with my mind on all of this.
I'd like to echo Miles' "thank you." I went through all these EMOTIONS over the weekend after discovering that Molly Young is 23.
The only person listed that I remotely care about is Wells Tower. His piece on the Homeless World Cup was hysterical/heartbreaking. It's in either the current Harpers or the Atlantic.
I have a list of my favorite Awl commenters over 40.
By age, or by commenter number?
"7. Some of the people on that list are, believe it or not, still poor. And probably have terrible, awful apartments. How many wonderfully too-long books of crazy alternative mixed-genre fiction do you think Chris Adrian has to write before he pays off his med school loans? I would estimate 6000 of them"
Does the writer possess conclusive documented proof that Chris Adrian is living below the poverty line? Does anyone have access to his bank records? Was he last seen with a bunch of winos and drug addicts on Skid Row?


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The perfect spring day, the air is sharp, yet soft. The air is soft, yet sharp.
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A cowbird. A river life-size ceramic river guardian, contemplating an object in his hand. Has the cowbird laid an egg, a grenade, a water bottle?
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In February 2003 (upon finding oneself in a writing circle in what used to be the local feminist bookshop)
What has happened?
What has brought me back here?
What is it that brings me back here?
This space here—I am describing more things these days by what they used to be. Like this space. I remember buying books here.
On dime day at the book sale two years ago, I found a Smedley's bookmark. The book it was in wasn't even worth a dime, but the memories from that little bookmark, they were beyond rubies. So I stole that bookmark.
Or: the King Sub building on West Buffalo St. has, on the west wall, a sign "Instant Printing," and a roof shape that identifies it as Ithaca's first Kentucky Fried Chicken. And on the cupola, before the repainting, there was the "Rx" of a pharmacy, the drugstore coming after the chickens, but before the printing.
But wait: is that the same King Sub that was up on Eddy St., first on the Fontana side, and then later on the other side?
There's a young one at work who bristles when I describe something in terms of what it once was. Talking about the book sale, I mentioned it was really cool when it was in the old Ithaca Calendar Clock building. And when she didn't know where that was, I said "where Clever Hans used to be, but not where it ended up." This pushed her over some geographic edge. Too many people had used Clever Hans as the center of their Ithaca compass during the past week. So, because everything is anything but the actual street address, I tried: "It's in the building where the dog groomer who used to be a therapist is."
And she knew it right away.
Neither one of us knows the name of the new restaurant, but we both know it's where Video Ithaca used to be.
Then there's the Angelheart barn sale, which a couple years ago was where Woolworth's used to be and last year was where something used to be—you know, in the mall where Jamesway used to be. And the Angelheart store downtown used to be where Monkey Ward's was. I know that because Autumn Leaves is where Logos used to be, and that's where Penney's was. And Logos was where what used to be called People's Pottery is and where Charjan's used to be. You can tell that when you look at the sidewalk in front. Right there is a Hallmark crown because Charjan's was the card shop.
And now, at the end of all this, I am beginning to doubt these chronologies. Where, then, was Newberry's? High ceilings, wood creaky floors. And Kay's Fabrics. Kay with the red hair, like Brenda Starr. Lots of wood in the old stores. The Corner Bookstore, off its (assumed) original corner by the time I learned to read—narrow, wooden, high-ceilinged stores. Rothchild's. With the scary iron elevator and the cigarette machine on the landing between the first and second floors.
What has happened? Everything. Nothing. Even before it rains, the water is already running down through the creeks and over the falls. You can christen the creeks and even re-christen them. The water runs regardless.
And here I am, on the bank in my Angelheart finery, still thinking it's more than possible for me to step into the same river twice.


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Milky Way's location among 'Council of Giants' mapped
Researchers have found that the Milky Way and Andromeda are encircled by twelve large galaxies arranged in a ring about 24-light-years across.
York University Physics and Astronomy Professor Marshall McCall maps out bright galaxies within 35-million light-years of the Earth, offering up an expanded picture of what lies beyond our doorstep.
McCall said that all bright galaxies within 20 million light-years, including us, are organized in a 'Local Sheet' 34-million light-years across and only 1.5-million light-years thick.
McCall says twelve of the fourteen giants in the Local Sheet, including the Milky Way and Andromeda, are "spiral galaxies" which have highly flattened disks in which stars are forming.
The remaining two are more puffy "elliptical galaxies," whose stellar bulks were laid down long ago. Intriguingly, the two ellipticals sit on opposite sides of the Council.
Winds expelled in the earliest phases of their development might have shepherded gas towards the Local Group, thereby helping to build the disks of the Milky Way and Andromeda.
The study has been published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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District 36
"We're lost in music/Feel so alive, I quit my nine-to-five"—thus spake Sister Sledge back in 1979. But you can't lose yourself when the sound sucks; if your ears hurt, it's unlikely your feet and hips will move much. Even so, few clubs seem to place a premium on audio quality—but happily, there are some notable exceptions to that rule, and one of those outliers is District 36, with a setup designed by Gary Stewart Audio. The veteran Stewart, who's installed systems in Singapore's Zouk and the second incarnation of Sound Factory, favors a crisp and clear, yet utterly natural, sound—place yourself in the middle of the dance floor's four big-ass speaker stacks and you'll be in nightlife nirvana. 29 W 36th St between Fifth and Sixth Aves (212-244-3636, d36nyc.com)
Still one of the city's best niteries at eight years of age, Cielo was designed from the bottom up for top-quality sound—even its cushioned, log-cabin-like walls play a role in softening any of the music's potential sharp edges. But the spot's secret weapon is its Funktion One system; Cielo was the first in North America to sport a setup from the now-famed firm, and the company treats the club as a showcase, regularly updating its equipment. It's evident: The beautiful, womblike warmth emanating from the speakers is what's kept DJs like Franois K and Louie Vega on the roster for years. 18 Little W 12th St between Ninth Ave and Washington St (212-645-5700, cieloclub.com)
The new kid on the block—albeit a block outside of the usual clubbing territory, namely Long Island City—is System. With a name like that, the nightclub had better have a more-than-credible sonic boom, and it does: Installed by audio-industry lifer Craig "Shorty" Bernabeu (who has also worked with Twilo and Montreal's Stereo) and his Systems by Shorty firm, the speakers rock the dance floor with authoritative power. 32-10 37th Ave between 30th and 31st Sts (systemny.com)


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London Daily Photo: Going Gone
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Celebrate iPod's Birthday with the Ultimate Travel Playlist (OneTravel)
Are you among the millions of music loving travelers who can't hit the road without your favorite tunes? What songs do you listen to when you're on the go? Ever 'built' a perfect playlist for a vacation or road trip?
Here's a quick list of classic songs with epic 'road lyrics' to add to the mix and help you get in the mood for your next big adventure.
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London Daily Photo: Fading
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Heathrow Airport: Some Facts and Figures (OneTravel)
Heathrow – it's the airport I'm most apt to fly in and out of. Considering how much time I spend there, I thought it might be worthwhile to learn a bit more about the place. So, I took a moment to dig around online for some Heathrow facts and figures.
Here's a list of some of the more interesting bits of trivia I discovered.
London Daily Photo: View from Gabriel's Wharf
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Follow Scotland's Historic Malt Whisky Trail (OneTravel)
The world famous and one of a kind Malt Whisky Trail in Scotland passes through seven Speyside working distilleries, as well as a historic distillery and Britain's only cooperage.
Though hardly inclusive of the numerous distilleries in the Speyside area, the trail serves as an excellent spine through the region. Indeed, any visit to all of the venues along this stretch of green Scottish countryside would result in plenty of knowledge about a Scottish and a wealth of memories. Best times to visit are the "WhiskyMonth" of May, the height of summer with its especially long hours of daylight, and September when many of the distilleries and towns host festivals and special events.
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London Daily Photo: No Exit
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Chocolate Show 2014 Highlights
The one and only Willy Wonka makes a grand appearance at this year's Chocolate Show.
Ooh yeah, it's Chocolate Week, one of the UK's yummiest stretch of days. I've had a great time tasting my way through a few especially tasty events and at last night's sneak peak of the 2014 Chocolate Show at Olympia London exhibition centre. Heading to the show? Here's a list of some of my favourite treats from the event.
I loved just about everything I tasted at the Chocolate Show stall ofTurin-based chocolate makers Venchi, especially its Cuor di Cacao Creamy Spread. By the way, Venchi has a shop at Covent Garden.
Speaking of Turin-based chocolate makers, Carlo Rotta's stall is well worth stopping by as well. Be sure to have a taste of his pistachio gianduiotto. Beyond the show, you can find Rott'as creations in London at his Selfridges concession.
French brand La Diamant du Terroir's truffle (as in the fungus) and chocolate products were definitely the most delicious items I sampled at the Chocolate Show.
One of Britain's best chocolatiers did not disappoint with its range of artisan chocolate bars. The cocoa nibs and oak smoked salt is incredibly crave-able as is the single origin, 72% Venezuelan Ocumbre bar made with fine Criollo beans.
The premium organic Ecuadorian chocolate from Pacari is among the best I've ever had. Be sure to have a taste of its 70% Piura Quemazon bar to taste what I mean!
The Chocolate Show runs through 19 October at Olympia West, Hammersmith Road, W14 8UX. Find tour more at salonduchocolat.co.uk.
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Quiz: Which Type of Holidaymaker are You?
Apparently, I'm Culture Vulture. Which kind of holidaymaker are you? Take this fun little quiz created by Holiday Hypermarket to find out
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London Daily Photo: Stratford
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Frieze Art Fair 2014 Highlights
Planning a visit to Frieze this weekend? Here's some pieces I reckon you should be on the lookout for.
Frieze is on! And whether you're a lover of contemporary art or not, it's one of the hottest tickets in town for rich folk gawking and zeitgeist gauging. In all honestly was actually at the fair to view the art (although I have to admit I got loads of satisfaction from the people watching) and thought I'd share some of the better bits of art I saw with you.
Compared to my past Frieze experiences (and please note I didn't attend last year), 2014's offerings weren't quite up to what I remembered. Maybe I'm more of a dullard than I used to be, or I've become too inured to give as much of a damn as I once did?
Then, I happened upon the Mark Flood 'Spidey' pieces on show at the Peres Projects stall. Salvation! Hallelujah! Some provocative and cleverly placed art to set my eyes upon! With my brow lowered and my smirk raised, I carried on and – of course – encountered a more than decent number of works that caught my eye, including these gems:
Klara Kristalova, Lehmann Maupin
Farhad Moshiri, Galerie Perrotin
Cildo Meireles, Galeria Luisa Strina
Faith in 21st century art restored? Maybe. I will say it's been impressive – if a bit blockbuster-y – seeing all the big name arty doings sprouting up just in time for the fair (Steve McQueen at Thomas Dane Gallery, Gerhard Ritcher at the newly opened Marian Goodman Gallery, Yoshitomo Nara at Dairy Art Centre, etc).
Frieze Art Fair runs through 18 October 14 in the south of The Regent's Park with the entrance off Park Square West. The postcode is NW1 4NR. Find out more at friezelondon.com.
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London Daily Photo: Greenwich
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Win a Selection of New Hotel Chocolat Supermilk Chocolate
Hotel Chocolat has recently launched Supermilk, its very own new genre of chocolate! With a "decadently" high 65% cocoa content, a splash of milk and less sugar than a dark chocolate bar" the chocolatiers behind Supermilk reckon its one of the "most comforting, creamy milk chocolate" creations you'll ever taste.
Want to try it? Of course you do! And, because I'm such a swell guy, I've got some to give away for free. To be sure, I got hold of a batch of Supermilk samples to nibble and definitely can recommend trying some for yourself. I especially enjoyed the Supermilk 65 Popcorn bar featuring popcorn and a pinch of sea salt. Yum!
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London Daily Photo: On or Off?
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Hotel Cafe Royal and Valrhona Team Up for Exclusive Profile 66 Chocolate
French chocolatier Valrhona has co-branded with London's Hotel Cafe Royal to develop an exclusive new chocolate: Profile 66. Only available at the hotel, Profile 66 is the creation of Andrew Blas and a team of Valrhona tasters.
The 66% dark chocolate is made from "the finest cocoa beans in South American and African plantations" and was launched tonight (Tuesday 14 October) at a lavish party at the hotel's elegant Siena marble walled cafe during the height of Chocolate Week. From tonight onwards, Profile 66 will be used in all chocolate pastries, petis fours, and drinks throughout the hotel's food and beverage outlets including the Ten Room restaurant and Green Bar. And from Easter 2015, Profile 66 will be available to purchase as a 100g bar priced at £5
On hand for the launch, I got a taste of the new chocolate. Fantastic! And smooth … with a complex and lasting flavour that's sure to delight chocolate lovers.
The launch also provided an excellent opportunity to have a taste of Cafe Royal's trio of Chocolate Week "choc tails" being served until the 19th which include Madame D (Amarula, Kahlua, peanuts and cinnamon), Pearfect (Pampero Especial, Amaretto, chocolate liquer and pear puree), and Gold Whisper (Imperial Golden Snow and Cacao) – each priced at £13.
Hotel Café Royal is located at 68 Regent Street, W1B 4DY. Find out more at hotelcaferoyal.com. For more about Valrhona, go to valrhona.com.
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London Daily Photo: Woe/Whoa
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5 Big Exhibitions in London Now (OneTravel)
This week sees the annual Frieze Art Fair descend upon London. With it comes a scope of art related activities and satellite events across town with some of London's best known galleries taking advantage of this time of heightened buzz to put on their biggest shows of the year.
Here's a list of five of the biggest exhibitions around town that are on now and well worth checking out.
London Daily Photo: Scratch Skull
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New Restaurant Review: United Ramen, Upper Street
Ramen, ramen, ramen, ramen! Talk about a soup du jour! Londoners are slurping up this Japanese dish at a decidedly trendy rate. Newest noodles on the scene are those on offer at United Ramen, where I had a right tasty meal last week.
While there, I went with a traditional chashu pork miso ramen (Chashu pork, soy egg, menma, bok choi, beansprouts, nori, spring onions, miso and chicken bone broth with thick noodles, £9). Serving size was ample and on the drearily raining evening I visited that big ole bowl of soup really hit the spot.
Behind the idea is entrepreneur with bent for East Asian cuisine, Aaron Resch, who reckons that "with such a rich history, ramen is a natural platform for cultural mash-ups, which we are excited to explore alongside the classics." So called cultural mash-ups include a Yankee Doodle ramen featuring BBQ pulled chicken and – as an ode to weekend pub roast – a British Bulldog Roast Beef ramen chocked full of rare roast beef, mini yorkshire puddings, menma carrots, bok choi, spring onions, wasabi gravy, beef & chicken bone broth with thin noodles that's "only available on Saturday and Sunday … while stocks last."
Rounding out the menu of classic and newly invented ramens are yummy sides such as tofu gyoza, great drinks (I was pleased to see Shipyard on the list) and fun desserts like strawberry cheesecake mochi and wasabi ice cream.
Friendly service and casual but fairly buzzing atmosphere added to my experience. It's an easy place to recommend!
United Ramen is located at 105-106 Upper Street, N1 1QN. Find out more at unitedramen.com.
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London Daily Photo: Brick Lane Sunday
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Steve McQueen at Thomas Dane Gallery: Ashes
Two new works by Steve McQueen go on view soon at Thomas Dane Gallery in St James's. One is an immersive projection with sound entitled Ashes which was shot on Super8 film in Granada with much of the footage dating from 2002 and taken by cinematographer Robbie Müller with recently recorded soundtrack about the sad fate of the subject in the film. The other work is Broken Column, a sculptural installation which "acts as a pendant to Ashes."
The two part exhibition is the third solo show by McQueen at Thomas Dane and marks the tenth anniversary of his first solo show there as well as the tenth anniversary of the gallery itself.
Following the success of the Academy Award winning 12 Years a Slave which was directed by McQueen, the artist's return to gallery work promises to draw more visits than usual for Thomas Dane Gallery (especially as it's kicking off during Frieze week) as well as comparisons to the 2013 film. There are some broad similarities between 12 Years and the new exhibition, namely that both are compelling and well worth experiencing and that with both McQueen holds true to his commitment to "not allow the dust of the past to settle" as he stated in his acceptance speech for the WEB Du Bois Medal at Harvard University earlier this year.
Ashes and Broken Column are on view at both Thomas Dane Gallery locations – 3 Duke Street St James's (SW1Y 6PY) and 11 Duke Street St James's (SW1Y 6BN) respectively – from 14 October to 15 November. Find out more at thomasdanegallery.com.
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Marvin Gaye Chetwynd at Studio Voltaire: Hermitos Children 2
Hermitos Children 2 is the largest film commission to date by Glasgow based artist Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (known as Spartacus Chetwynd a couple years back when she was a Turner Prize nominee) and is on view now at Studio Voltaire. The film is part of an ongoing series of "experimental television crime drama" following telepathic detective Joan Shipman as "she uncovers and solves sex crimes" and is screened within a large scale gallery installation incorporating a number of props and interiors.
Wobbling between wacky and provocative and presenting viewers with a delightful internal debate which pits Why against Well, why not?, this new work (alongside Chetwynd's original Hermitos Children pilot episode from 2009) features gender bent actors telling weird tales involving dildo seesaws at Sugar Tits Doom Club and modern day bull leaping parties in secluded caves.
With a soundtrack ranging from erratic bloops and bleeps to bass heavy thudding thrash, cameos by a platinum blonde shitzu-like wookie, and all sorts of other inexplicable sights and sounds this perplexing romp is a slapdash spectacle that's best seen for yourself.
Exhibited during the same dates as Hermitos Children 2 is Women with Cameras, a newly commissioned slideshow by US based artist Anne Collier. Both exhibitions run from 12 October to 14 December at Studio Voltaire, 1A Nelson's Row, SW4 7JR. Find out more at studiovoltaire.org.
London Daily Photo: Stratford International
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5 Scan-tastic Reasons to Visit Sweden's Koster Islands (OneTravel)
About a month back I had the pleasure of visiting the Koster Islands, Sweden's most westerly populated (if only sparsely) islands. Just south of the Norwegian coast, it's a rugged and beautiful part of the world and a great place to "get away from it all" without having to give up on any creature comforts. The scenery is amazing, the food is phenomenal, the traditional fishing villages about as quaint as it gets, and the folks living there are incredibly friendly and down to earth.
Here are five reasons I reckon nature loving foodies should strongly consider visiting this off the beaten track (although the ferry schedule from the mainland town of Strömstad is regular and reliable) destination.
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London Daily Photo: Guard
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Win a Pair of Tickets to the bettane+desseauve Wine Experience London
The third edition of the bettane+desseauve Wine Experience London will take place 24 and 25 October at Saatchi Gallery where guests will have the chance to sample more than 400 of the best European wines on the market today. Tickets for the tasting run 30 quid a pop. But check it out! I've got ten pairs of tickets to share with you lucky readers.
Love wine? Yeah, me too. So I'm super stoked about the upcoming bettane+desseauve Wine Experience returning to town for its second annual tasting. With excellent quaffs to sample along the lines of Ruinart, Taittinger, Château Branaire-Ducru, Domaine des Perdrix, Domaine Laroche, Masciarelli, Roberto Voerzio and plenty more, it promises to be a real treat.
The exclusive event is the creation of two highly respected wine critics, Michel Bettane and Thierry Desseauve. Beyond the access wines from over 60 producers, the Wine Experience will host a range of masterclasses and other related activities.
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The bettane+desseauve Wine Experience London takes place Friday the 24th and Saturday the 25th of October at Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York's HQ, King's Road, SW3 4RY. Find out more at london.bdwinexperience.com.
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London Daily Photo: Brick Lane
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Sponsored Video: ENO does Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro: 16 October to 23 November
Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro comes to the London stage this month with a highly anticipated return of the English National Opera's smash-hit production at the London Coliseum for the first time since its hugely well received premiere in 2011.
Acclaimed actress Fiona Shaw's staging of the classic comedic opera promises to be "fun, stylish and witty" and to feature a rotating maze-like set and elegant period costumes that's sure to wow audiences and heighten the farce for which this opera is so well know.
A story of "one crazy day" as Count's valet Figaro attempts to wed Countess's maid Susanna amid a mess of mixed up situations, the ENO production stars David Stout and Mary Bevan star as the wily servants Figaro and Susanna, alongside Benedict Nelson as Count Almaviva and Sarah-Jane Brandon as the wronged Countess.
The English National Opera is among the world's most innovative and accessible opera companies with an international reputation for distinctive, contemporary and highly theatrical productions. Find out more about its production of Figaro and all that's going on this season at the ENO Facebook page and join in the #ENOFigaro discussion on Twitter.
Sung and surtitled in English with a running time of just under three and a half hours, the ENO production of The Marriage of Figaro runs from 16 October to 23 November at the London Coliseum, St Martin's Lane, WC2N 4ES.
Pre-performance talks with Figaro librettist Jeremy Sams and production manager Sheelagh Barnard are scheduled for 23 October at 5pm, and there is to be signed performance on 6 November.
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London Daily Photo: Orange
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4 Great Blogs for Travel Tech Tips (OneTravel)
What's the best gear, app, camera, tablet, SIM card etc for your particular style of travel? I dunno. But maybe one of these bloggers can steer you in the right direction.
Here's a list of five of the world's best blogs to read for the latest travel tech tips and trends.
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