Venus and Jupiter do a little square dance over the nights of August 26-28. Jupiter is headed westward toward conjunction with the sun, while Venus is moving away from the sun in the opposite direction from our perspective. Credit: Stellarium If cloudy weather’s in the forecast that night...
In the last week of March, Sony sprung the PlayStation Store Spring Sale promotion, which housed thousands of items. This week, Sony added more games to the list in the Spring Sale update! Check out the complete list of added games and even the original list. Based on our internal check...
Ellen Fullman “Change of Direction” [Orbitones Spoon Harps & Bellowphones, Experimental Musical Instruments] DJ Shadow “Depth Charge” [The Mountain Will Fall] Fazer “Twin Drum” [Nadi] Judy Dunaway “Fifty 210” [New York Guitars] Steroid Maximus “Chain Reaction” [Ectopia] Scott Jenerik...
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Retrogrades in astrology represent “re” words, such as review, revise, reconsider, realign, revisit, and so on. They are the one step backward to allow for the many steps forward. They are a sacred pause inviting us to look around, review who we are and the direction we are walking,...
Uranus also rotates in the opposite direction as Earth does, and on its side. Scientists think both Uranus' and Venus' original rotations might have been "stopped" by one large impact, several smaller impacts, or a disruption in their rotations by a large gravitational force. In Venus' case...
“BRILLIANT PARTY NIGHT YET AGAIN, MUSIC BY VENUS WAS AMAZING, AND WE COULDN’T HAVE ASKED FOR BETTER FOOD, FUN NIGHT WAS BRILLIANT.” “SUCH A BRILLIANT NIGHT. THE STAFF LOVED IT. THE FOOD WAS BRILLIANT AND THE MUSIC WAS FAB.” “YET ANOTHER FABULOUS NIGHT – LOVELY STAFF – REALLY ...
…Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman (Der fliegende Holländer) comes to The Bradshaw Hall at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire this July.In what is believed to be the UK’s first ethnically-led Wagner production, The Flying Dutchman is presented by Persona Arts, with music direction from international ...
Activist, Science / 49 Comments A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle. Featuring interviews with Daniel Quinn, Derrick Jensen, Jerry Mander, Chellis Glendinning, Richard Heinberg, Thomas...
As a key architect of science fiction’s New Wave (a 1960s and 1970s movement for the genre to become more experimental), Roger Zelazny wrote boundary-breaking books that pushed the field in a new direction. His best novel, Lord of Light, fuses heady concepts from religion and philosophy ...