• blogTO notes that retail space on Bloor Street in Yorkville is not only the priciest in Canada, but among the priciest in the world.
• Centauri Dreams notes how fast radio bursts, a natural phenomenon, can be used to understand the universe.
• Dangerous Minds looks at a Kate Bush music performance on Dutch television in 1978.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to an ( Read more... )

• The Big Picture reports from Boston's Methadone Mile.
• The Broadside Blog celebrates its seventh anniversary.
• Dangerous Minds shares vintage photos of Kate Bush.
• Language Hat considers the position of Chinese poetry.
• Otto Pohl reflects on his visit to Almaty.

Even a week later, it's still hard for me to understand that Prince is dead. The idea of such a talented person no longer being around is something I should be used to, this the year that David Bowie died, but I'm not used to it. I don't think I should. The man's skill, as a songwriter and a musician, is astounding ( Read more... )

• The Associated Press notes the hostility in many American communities to Muslim cemeteries.
• Bloomberg explores the revival of watchmaking in East Germany's Saxony, and touches on the new two-day public work week in Venezuela.
• Bloomberg View notes Japan's rising levels of poverty, looks at the politicization of the Brazilian education system, and ( Read more... )

Joe. My. God. alerted me to the existence of a new Kate Bush documentary by the BBC, The Kate Bush Story: Running up That Hill.


KATE BUSH - The Kate Bush Story (2014 BBC Documentary) from Videodrome Discothèque on Vimeo.

Lucy Mangan's review in The Guardian doesn't do it justice. This hour-long show does a brilliant job of explaining where Kate ( Read more... )

British music writer Ian Penman's article in the London Review of Books about Kate Bush is wonderful. Fannish in the best ways, knowing his subject without being uncritically admiring, it's a joy to read. Plus, it's a teaser for more to come from Bush herself.

We know all the essential passport application stuff about Bush, and down the years she’ ( Read more... )

Now that her son is growing up, it looks like iconic songstress Kate Bush is becoming active again. Partial proof can be found in her interview with the Times' Will Hodgkinson, an interview I posted last night gaffa on account of its thoroughness.

An interview with Kate Bush, whatever form it takes, is exciting enough to cause heart problems in ( Read more... )

The future isn't something that people like contemplating these days, quite probably for the same reasons of disappointment and foreboding that Andrew Barton described earlier this month.

For decades, the twenty-first century was implicitly the great beyond, the city on the hill, and there was no alternative to it being a good and decent place ( Read more... )

I blogged back in 2005 about "Jig of Life," a non-single album track off of Kate Bush's 1985 Hounds of Love. Blame the fiddles and the folk music that she deploys so effectively, as you can now hear.

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There's also the lyrics, of course. As I blogged back in 2005, my confusion about the lyrics--someone appeared to be at threat of dying and someone ( Read more... )

I first heard Kate Bush's song "And So Is Love", taken from 1993's The Red Shoes, through the portable CD player that I'd brought along with me for the train trip to and from a week-long student exchange program in Ottawa back in June 1997. And So Is Love was one of three albums I bought at a HMV in a neighbourhood in the Montréal that I had ( Read more... )