LifeForms uses video technology, which is at its most ambitious in Booth’s “Generic Signatures”, where a camera tapes and simultaneously screens the dancers’ movements with only a fractional time lag. Booth is now based in Brighton, Elkins in New York, but both are men of the world, known for the magpie eclecticism of their dance. And so, to choreograph the two halves of its latest touring programme, LifeForms, Union Dance’s director Corrine Bougaard has invited Laurie Booth and Doug Elkins. Its dancers and collaborators represent ethnicities from around the world. It “seeks to develop its own movement vocabulary and dance aesthetic through exposure to philosophies, experiences and influences of other cultures”. UNION DANCE Company tries hard to live up to its name.

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James Rampton. “I guess prison rape has got a bit of a bad name,” he muses at one point, “but I always said if I ever wrote a song about it, I’d make it romantic.” Musical guests include Bill Bailey, Boothby Graffoe, Phil Nichol and Steve Gribbin. But the more Crenshaw ignores good taste with his spoof Country & Western songs, the more audiences lap him up. By any conventional standards, Otis Lee Crenshaw, a Deep South convict in jail for “involuntary bigamy” and played by American stand-up Rich Hall, should be prompting letters of outrage to the Attorney General, or at least Anne Robinson.

You may think the depravity of prisoners isn’t a subject for knock- about comedy. a reflection and a distillation of the person you would like to be”. Presumably, whether you’re there or not is beside the point.. It is mainly filled with glossy photos of the clientele, but occasionally Mr Gill, who regards himself as a culinary philosopher on a par with Brillat-Savarin, offers a few vaporous musings He notes, for example, that “a good restaurant is… I’ve never in fact set foot inside this swish joint, but it certainly sounds a perfect venue for alibi purposes.I refer you to a curious new cookbook called The Caprice by AA Gill (Hodder & Stoughton, pounds 25).

Adam Raphael’s article on his doubts about the Archer libel case hinges on whether or not Mr Archer was at the Caprice restaurant on 8 September 1986. But you know whom I blame.In common, I’d guess, with many others, I made a rare purchase of The Economist yesterday. In retrospect, ignoring a temporary “No Parking” sign in the immediate aftermath of the IRA attack on Downing Street was rather a rash act. Since our tickets declared “You can park right outside the theatre”, we did that very thing.When we came out, the Weaselmobile was notable by its absence. On payment of approximately pounds 118, I recovered the vehicle from the Elephant & Castle car pound. My beef dates back to his brief period as proprietor of the Playhouse Theatre, near Whitehall. Mrs W and I went there to see a play about Boswell starring Leo McKern.

You scrape out the resulting ash and cook using the radiant heat from the thick terracotta walls. My ciabatta rolls were a triumph.Perhaps the major difference between our stove and the Elizabethan one is that ours looks older. Blackened and riven with cracks, it looks like a real museum piece Perhaps the Museum of London would care to swap. We could even throw in a few bananas at the same time.While I’m not one to kick a guy while he’s down, I feel unable to resist adding a small pebble to the Everest of obloquy currently sitting on Lord Archer’s head. Vaguely conical in shape with a broad, letter-box mouth, it was made of terracotta We’ve got one virtually the same in our back garden. Ours is called “The Beehive” and was imported from Portugal by an Oxford company.