How will you answer the religion question on your Census 2016 form?

Edit The Irish Times 23 Apr 2016
There is an old joke that people from outside Northern Ireland often tell. We are asked to imagine that a gormless tourist has wondered into one of Belfast’s more belligerent quarters. A sectarian thug approaches and asks our hero what religion he practises ... The best recognise that what binds the two tribes together (mordant sense of humour) is far more significant than what separates them (17th-century fluvial conflicts) ... Never mind ... ....

Three of the best… new dance performances

Edit The Guardian 22 Apr 2016
Scottish Dance Theatre . The Winter’s Tale ... There’s actual food on offer in Luca Silvestrini’s latest work, a mordant look at our 21st-century obsession with fad diets and celebrity chefs ... ....

Cascando review: a subversion of immersive theatre that appeals to the ego

Edit The Irish Times 22 Apr 2016
Cascando . Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin  . ***. Asked before the show to remove your shoes and don an enveloping black jubba – a hooded garment that conceals you head to toe, like a medieval monk – many audience members do what any sane person might. they take a selfie ... But it also seems to depict a mind in disintegration ... Not for the first time in Beckett, the words seem like a mordant joke on the audience. “we’re there . ... ... ....

American Psycho review – Patrick Bateman sings, strips and slashes

Edit The Guardian 22 Apr 2016
3 / 5 stars. Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, New York ... @ASoloski. Has there ever been an axe murderer handsomer than Patrick Bateman? Certainly that allure helps to explain the perverse, mordant appeal of American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis’s boundary-ramming satire of 80s excess, adapted as a cult movie in 2000 and now appearing as a Broadway musical after an earlier run at the Almeida Theatre in London ... Related. Rupert Goold ... Twitter ... ....

Fiona Hall's Venice Biennale installation opens at the National Gallery of Australia

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 21 Apr 2016
Australia's contribution to last year's Venice Biennale received rave reviews and attracted almost 300,000 visitors ... Advertisement ... Australia's commissioner for the 2015 Venice Biennale, Simon Mordant, said it was these themes that led to Hall being selected to represent Australia last year ... But Mordant had long wanted Australians who didn't make it to Venice to see how they had been represented ... Entry is free. ....

Easy on the soap: mining firms pinch pennies as downturn bites

Edit Yahoo Daily News 21 Apr 2016
By James Regan. SYDNEY (Reuters) - From trimming menus in staff canteens to cutting back on soap and washing detergent at worker camps, the global mining industry that once lavished perks on employees is scrimping like never before as a brutal downturn engulfs minerals markets ... GRINDING COSTS ... (Reporting by James Regan in Sydney; Additional reporting by Nicole Mordant in Vancouver; Editing by Clara Ferreira Marques and Joseph Radford) ....

Green Guide letters: Tony Robinson an 'oaf' on Time Walks

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 20 Apr 2016
. LETTER OF THE WEEK ... Fortunately, Robinson stopped short of the rapes ... Check it out ... Photo. Teagan Glenane. Nothing new ... In defence of Red Symons, Red is the 21st century incarnation of the late, great Peter Evans, and I  greatly appreciate his mordant wit and misanthropy in the mornings.  It's very hard putting up with the relentless bonhomie and social conscience prattle from Libbi Gorr while he's away ... ....

First Look At Elizabeth Banks As The ‘Power Rangers’ Villain

Edit Inquisitr 19 Apr 2016
Rita Repulsa, the infamously wonderful villain from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, seems to have received quite the makeover for the new movie starring Elizabeth Banks as the evil villain ... Here's what Rita Repulsa will look like in the 'Power Rangers' movie https.//t.co/Z9hN5eIshg pic.twitter.com/bUnAhkR4UP. — Complex UK (@complex_uk) April 19, 2016 ... Not to mention, Goldar and Mordant are nowhere to be seen. (Rude.)” ... LOOK....

A farmer responds to newspaper ad, finds the fabric of his true calling

Edit The Hindu 17 Apr 2016
He was not aiming for a record; his eyes were set much higher. “Creating the record was a by-product ... Mr ... “Foreigners outnumber Indian buyers as they like the fact that the dyes used in the cloth are obtained by extracting colours from parts of fruits, vegetables, roots and leaves with mineral salts of iron, tin, copper and other metals serving as mordants (that helps bind the colour to the fabric) ... Reddy ... A.P ... ....

Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979 review – an antiseptic archive of archives

Edit The Guardian 17 Apr 2016
Tate Britain, London. The rebellious exuberance of 1960s conceptual art is largely absent from this poker-faced show. @LauraCummingArt. Can time past ever be regained? The curators at Tate Britain evidently hope so ... Nearly 6,000 oranges are piled in a glowing pyramid on the floor ... This is no way to evoke those days ... You sent up consumer advertising with piercing social critiques, like the mordant Victor Burgin. Twitter ... Twitter ... Related ... ....

Here's the shortlist

Edit The Hindu 14 Apr 2016
The six shortlisted authors for The Hindu Prize, 2014 (clockwise). Anita Nair, Shovon Chowdhury, Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, Shashi Deshpande, Ashok Srinivasan and Deepti Kapoor. One of the six novelists will win The Hindu Prize 2014 ... Shovon Chowdhury ... A breakaway from contemporary trends in the English novel in India, The Competent Authority brims with a manic and mordant energy that marks it out as a remarkably original work of fiction....

Luminis Partners and UNSW launch $1m scholarship program (UNSW - The University of New South Wales)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Apr 2016
(Source. UNSW - The University of New South Wales) ... UNSW Chancellor David Gonski, along with Luminis Partners' Ron Malek, Simon Mordant, Peter Brownie and Jamie Garis, launched the Luminis Foundation Scholarship at a function last night. Mr Gonski thanked the Foundation for its foresight in establishing the program ... 'When we set up Luminis Partners twelve months ago we said our Foundation would be central to all we do,' Mr Mordant added....

Words that were

Edit The Hindu 12 Apr 2016
Three hardbound volumes in navy blue weighing over three kilograms together ... Ambedkar and dissected them in relation to the landmark developments of the times then and in Ambedkar’s life. At his office in New Delhi, Jadhav, a well-known Marathi writer with his name on the cover of 22 books by now, is all keyed up to talk about Ambedkar Speaks, first released in his mother tongue Marathi ... His arguments are mordant here ... Keywords....
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