Broad Oak Magazine

An eclectic selection - Happy Easter, felices pascuas!

[This piece on Picasso and his vision first appeared on Nourishing Obscurity here .] The picture shown at left was painted in 1895 when ...

Popular music is currently in a moribund state with a distinct lack of 'music' and too many 'stars' who cannot sing. Well I ...

It is very agreeable to find yourself alone in a great city which is yet not quite strange to you and in a large empty hotel. It gives you...

It is St Patrick's Day tomorrow, Saturday, so instead of the usual 'to be sure, to be sure' and Leprechaun stereotype blather it...

Back in the 'good old days' of black and white television the BBC had a show called Come Dancing. It was first broadcast in 1952 ...