Museums are the best way of preserving our ideas for future generations; Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Darwin and Martin Luther King are the most inspired historical figures; and the atom bomb and reality TV are the worst ideas of all
The Kirov Ballet from the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg makes its debut at Birmingham Hippodrome in 2008. The 200-year-old Russian company, under the Artistic Direction of Valery Gergiev and Ballet Director Makhar Vaziev , will perform two full-length ballets
Controversial author Salman Rushdie has claimed his old pals U2 are among the most subdued rockers in the world. Rushdie, who hid out in a cottage in lead singer Bono's back garden after receiving death threats for publishing The Satanic
The last envelope is a particular special affair, given that at this point, millions of fans will be on the edge of their seats, calculating how many of the big favourites are still to be read out. Last year it
The first thing to say is that the vast majority of fans at both the Euroclub and Eurocafe in Belgrade believe that the result is not in any way controvercial. Overall, there is a consensus that the ten best performances
Many suspect that Norway was the jury's choice to qualify. The theory is based on the fact that no other country from Western Europe qualified from tonight's final. The final positions will not be revealed until after the Eurovision Song
Henley's River & Rowing Museum is sponsoring a garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show which it hopes will inspire gardeners to help save the water vole.
Exhibition preview - Structures For The Unseen: Axel Antas At SPACEX , Exeter until July 12 2008. A new exhibition at SPACEX, Exeter, features the melancholic and sometimes sublime work of Finnish artist Axel Antas.
