Category Archives: Culture

Banksy Balls on Sunday

Posted on July 13, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Today’s Mail on Sunday has ‘exposed’ Banksy apparently.

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Overspend watch

Posted on July 10, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Whoops! They’ve done it again! Looks like Bristol City Council have screwed up another capital project. This time it’s the £20m Colston Hall foyer project that’s still ten months from completion. Here’s the relevant bit of the report (pdf) from … Continue reading →

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History as bunk

Posted on May 18, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

A brilliant critique of the Museum of Bristol project and its embarrassing heritage-lite approach to the city’s history has appeared on the Festival of Ideas website. The piece, by ‘Tetchy Steve’, is a response to a talk at the festival … Continue reading →

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A Ladybird easy reading book …

Posted on March 17, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

This has already appeared on Bristol Graffiti and Bristle KRS but is more than worth repeating again. An unusual ‘Ladybird easy reading book’ appeared for e-bay auction recently …

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CONsultants latest

Posted on March 12, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

The view of Bristol enjoyed by our new local CONsultants Another post on what seems to be this weeks’s emerging theme: the city council’s sell-out of Bristol to corporate CONsultants from London because the authority’s superannuated senior officer clique who … Continue reading →

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Fwd: what does our city look like?

Posted on March 12, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

From BBC Bristol … The BBC is collecting pictures of Bristol that capture the soul of the city. Why? Because Bristol is getting a new Chief Executive, and she’s new to the city. Jan Ormondroyd will be given the “official … Continue reading →

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The power of "the Kelly Effect"

Posted on March 9, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

The recently discovered “Kelly Effect” is a very close cousin of the “Bristol Effect”. And we all know what the Bristol Effect is. It’s the graveyard of ambition where good ideas come to die while talent takes the road to … Continue reading →

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Local foodie's Watershed dinner horror

Posted on January 26, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

“The Watershed runs itself,” its Director Dick Penny assured the recent meeting on the future of the Old Vic, which he may soon be running. Er, not according to Evening Cancer food critic Mark Taylor it doesn’t. Taylor, like many … Continue reading →

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This might be helpful …

Posted on January 19, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

The Bristol Old Vic has set up a new website that includes a blog. Giving it some of the currently fashionable “openess and transparency” schtick, they’ve told the Evening Cancer it’s to “open things up and share the whole process.” … Continue reading →

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Preaching 'n' practising

Posted on January 15, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Old Vic Chair-in-waiting, Dick Penny, told a rapt audience last Thursday that “you must balance how much you can spend on stage with how much you earn from the seats”. Indeed. So does Dick practice what he preaches in his … Continue reading →

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