A GENERATION OF British folk can remember three TV channels, test cards and nearly-all-day religious programmes on a Sunday. There was absolutely nothing on during the day except horse racing. Families used to stay in to watch a Saturday night film and all those variety shows as the valves in the sets got hotter [...]
FURTHER TO MY, 22-23 recent ramblings about Stinkfoot on the Thekla here’s something else all you Vivianites out there may find interesting if you fancy a night out in Liverpool as we approach the longest day. I have my ticket already. Myself and two chums will be hot footing it off up there for a [...]
THOSE OF YOU who arrived here as a result of Googling ˜Heavy Artillery”, ˜Hawaiian Airlines” or ˜Hydrocephalus Association” may discover they have little interest in the following. However, if, as I suspect, you are reading Ha! because you have a tendency toward word-for-word recitation of Monty Python sketches, the works of Milligan and Cook and [...]
INTRODUCING our new columnist! Melton Thornaby – Adventurer, travel writer and wine connoisseur I’VE NEVER MUCH liked the taste of wine. But I learned from a remarkably early age that I have a sensitive and cultured palette, and am able to identify a myriad of complex flavours and tastes – quickly getting an accurate site [...]
St. Just-le-Martel – 28 Glorious Years! CARTOONS, CARICATURES AND cartooning have yet to be elevated to the status of ‘artform’ by the Arts Council in the UK. And perhaps this is a national attitude reflected in the difficulty of establishing a regular celebratory festival of the art (I’m going to use the term just to [...]
ARCHIVE: amended from Issue 2, January 1995 WOODY ALLEN’S fame for extracting humour from the serious side of life is well-known. And in many of his films, humour is noticeably absent as he mines the darkest recesses of the human psyche and relationships. So, a return to his earlier work, at a time when he [...]
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