The Edinburgh Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world. It was originally set up by people who didn’t get invited to the Edinburgh Festival, but now it’s largely overwhelmed the mainstream event. Perth’s Fringe World festival is largely modelled on it. The Edinburgh Fringe is open access, which means that anyone can put on a…
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Jul
Last month, I asked: Can you be too successful? Has anyone ever lost a major acting honour to someone whose part he’s written? The answer to the second question turned out to be yes. At the Tony Awards, Lin-Manuel Miranda lost the Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical award to his co-star, Leslie Odom, Jr. Mr Miranda…
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Jul
San Francisco inspires such unmitigated naughtiness that it can be hard to write a printable post about the place. But here goes… On my first ever time there last year , I visited the school where my honorary Californian little sister Lisa teaches First Grade, entirely in Spanish. She’d come a long way since our Spanish…
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Jun
I like soccer about as much as the average Argentine likes Margaret Thatcher. In 2005, two of the guys I met in Patagonia – Jake and Andrew – asked me to a match in Buenos Aires at the Bombonera Stadium. Boca Juniors was playing Vélez Sársfield. Jake and Andrew were fun to hang out with at the Perito Moreno…
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Jun
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington DC has two of the ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in The Wizard of Oz. After first seeing the movie as a seven-year-old, my father told my sister and me that the Good Witch of the North was really the villain, because she was: a thief (for stealing…
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Jun
Practically every week, I post something about Argentina, but when I recently did a search, the word ‘tango’ had no results. There are a few reasons for this. One is that I’m a terrible dancer and even worse at tango. In my blog, I always strive to have a different take on things. It’s hard to…
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Jun
This is from the gift shop at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, 2015. I planned this post some time ago. I wondered, in light of the heartless murder of 49 people in Florida, whether I should write something else, or put off saying anything at all. I’ve kept it because there’s something loving and simple about this art. It…
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Jun
I was excited about paragliding in Mendoza – until they gave me the release and disclaimer document to sign while we were driving up the mountain. Being a lawyer, I read it, including all the words about all the bad things that could happen to me! I went in tandem. This was both good and…
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Jun
