Broad Oak Magazine

We have all seen those pavement artists on their knees with boxes and boxes of chalk beavering away to produce reproductions of famous paint...

Donald Trump has been denigrated and called an idiot by those who want him removed from the face of the Earth, but he called this correctly ...

These come from the late 50s or early 60s, from a more innocent and more optimistic time. And this was reflected in the music, bright and br...

When I moved to the US in 1978, teaching was a fairly well-respected union job that could keep someone solidly in the middle class. The pay ...

Another retread from my archive first posted at Nourishing Obscurity in 2011, I think. (As long ago as that?) Not sure of the date of the vi...

It was while browsing a nursery catalogue and observing how plants of all types have gone up in price alongside everything else as a result ...

Last Friday I watched the BBC Proms featuring the Chinese pianist Yuja Wang playing Franz Liszt's first piano concerto. A very good perf...