Rediscovering Candy In Middle Age

“The first time I had a Milky Way after years of candy sobriety, I was jolted by the Madeleine experience of the thing. I was transported back to childhood pleasures – the leap into the neighborhood pool, the afternoon spent at the movies, the whispering with girlfriends at the back of the school bus. Since then I have made an effort to reacquaint myself with candy, in part out of a desire to reconnect with that primal past, and in part because, well, candy tastes really good.”

West End Ticket Prices Have More Than Doubled Since ’95

The Society of London Theatre’s “Box Office Data Report for 2009 has revealed the ‘average ticket price asked’ for a theatre ticket in London last year was £43.07 – a rise of more than 100% from its 1995 level of £21.36.” In the same period, “retail prices and average earnings … have gone up by 45% and 68% respectively.”

Beethoven’s Symphonies All In One Day: Brilliant Or Mad?

“We’re more used to consuming culture in complete cycles and series today than ever before (we’ve all sat down to watch one episode of 24 and ended up slumped on the sofa hours later having got through a whole day with Jack…). But is Beethoven really ripe for the Jack Bauer treatment? Will the result be blazing Beethovenian insight or mere musical overload?”