August 2011 - Spear's Magazine

Month: August 2011

Hey Mr DJ, Put a Record On

If you want to twist the night away at a soigné soirée, you must have a superstar DJ, says Victoria Aitken

Down the Jackson Hole

Last week the world’s leading finance wizards ’hauled-arse off to Wyoming’.

If Gilbert & Sullivan Wrote on the Riots…

Friend of Spear's and opera and cabaret singer extraordinaire Melinda Hughes has penned, produced and performed a witty ditty on the recent riots around Britain and the ensuing race row

Hopes and Fears for Libya’s Future

Spear's staff writer Sophie McBain spent nearly three years in Tripoli and here she writes about what she thinks Libya's future holds

IT HAS BEEN six months since I left Tripoli, the city I made my home for over two and a half years. I left without saying goodbye to my friends, carrying just one bag of belongings, and feeling certain that I would be able to return to the sleepy, quietly chaotic Mediterranean town within a few weeks. This was the first of many false predictions I’ve made about the Libyan uprising.

Prom 53

The pizzicato in the third movement was stunningly slick, such was the understanding between this octogenarian and his fledglings

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