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James Marsters @ Covent Garden
Christmas comes early for guest blogger Paratti, and enormous fun ensues… Any James Marsters event is as much a gathering of the James/Spike tribe as an audience with everyone’s favourite “manpire”, complete with pictures, acting, words and music. While there were new fans – I was seated with people who’d gotten into James’ work through watching Buffy the […]
James “Spike” Marsters coming to Covent Garden
November 4, 2011
Call me corny, but Christmas has come early for me this year, with the news that James Marsters is doing a one-off Christmas Special on Dec 3rd at St Paul’s Church in Covent Garden (also know as the Actors’ Church). Marsters played Spike in Joss Whedon’s spectacularly successful TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer - a character who first appeared as a standard-issue Vampire Bad Guy on the […]
Inigo Jones: the architect who brought Italian Renaissance style to England
May 11, 2011
Inigo Jones (1573 – 1652) was a London-born architect who went as a young man to Europe on the traditional Grand Tour, and brought back the stylistic influences of Vitruvius (c. 75BC to c. 15BC) and Andrea Palladio (1508 - 1580), which he incorporated into designs of his own. The style, known as Palladian, pays homage to Classical Greece and Rome, harmonious […]
Bloomsbury Bytes
- Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill @ Doughty St May 16, 2013
- In Search of Classical Greece April 3, 2013
- View of the week: UCL’s Institute of Making March 16, 2013
December 6, 2011
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