Road to Eurovision 2025: Week 2 – Estonia, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway + Poland (semi-final 1, part 2)

What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading

Book review: The Bookshop Detectives #2: Tea and Cake and Death by Gareth Ward and Louise Ward

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Cosy crime has become quite the thing in recent years, and while those unacquainted with the genre might wonder how something so awful could be considered in the same vein as warm fires, knitting and supportive found families, there’s something about combining cosiness and crime that Continue Reading

Stranger and stranger indeed: The entertaining trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S3

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn Season 3, when we reconnect with the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, still under the command of Captain Pike, they face the conclusion of Season 2’s harrowing encounter with the Gorn. But new life and civilizations await, including a villain that will test our characters’ grit Continue Reading

Road to Eurovision 2025: Week 1 – Albania, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Croatia + Cyprus (semi-final 1, part 1)

What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading