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>> ACCESS ALL AREAS? M4-5 >> YORK DOES EDINBURGH M15 SPRING WEEK NINE We look at student life in a wheelchair Students shows going to the Fringe Wednesday June 20 2007 MUSE Summer special: where to go and what to do this holiday M12-14 M2 Columns 20/06/07 Muse 20.06.07 NanFlory Access all areas? The students living York life in wheelchairs >> M4 An orgasm of Why can’t I wake one’s own We talk to women who’ve made careers in up without you? alternative sex industries >> M6 hings have been getting her first film. Guy Ritchie is though, no new material. The me down lately. directing another film. They only good thing about the show Frivolous things. It changed the design of the is that the unique programmes A long way from home Tseems to me, that there Smartie tubes so you can’t pop can origami into sick bags. are the really terrible things, and the lids off anymore. Dan Brown That’s an innovation that could Raf Sanchez talks to Iraqis then there are the unnecessarily is worth $88 million. Tom take off—they could take them terrible things. It’s the unneces- Cruise is worth $67 million. on that show where you try and living in the UK about the sarily terrible things that are What is the deal, guys? sell your inventions. Dragons’ war, Saddam and home >> M8 worrying me right now. They are And now, as if the first two Den, that’s it. the things that exist in the enter- items on my list aren’t enough, Ok, maybe I’m being over tainment arena, as opposed to they’re making a musical about zealous; at least this is a musical the world-politics-famine-war- Take That. Can you imagine? It’s that is not asking to be taken Biking in the buff global warming arena. Stuff is called Never Forget. I’m not sure seriously. Take That are silly, Sam Noble gets into the bad enough over in the latter if the title refers to the previous- musicals are silly…no sweat. that you would have thought ly unknown levels of nausea you Also, the man who wrote it also swing of things at the we’d give ourselves a break and will experience, and never for- wrote Shameless which is a Naked Bike Ride stop letting our light relief from get, if you go see this show, or if super programme. At the the drudgery of the human con- they just want you to never for- moment I am disappointed in >> M10 dition be shitty and tasteless. get Take That and their epony- him for getting involved with I’ve compiled a little list of mous song. Either way, the pro- this Never Forget debacle but things that are plain wrong ducers can hardly have your best maybe, if I actually watch it, I’ll SPECIAL: without any excuse for their interests at heart. Resurrecting feel bad for not having trusted wrongness that could be seen as Take That at all is not great, res- his judgment. Summer travel valid in the way that destructive urrecting them through the The worst musicals are def- We chat to Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler imperial regimes are an excuse cheesiest, most irritating genre initely the ones that are about for more important things being in the world is plain sadism. people dying and political issues about the best places to go, how to get there and >>M12 really bad. Never Forget is not strictly and religious philosophy. Cheesy what to do and the burdens of being a travel guru Like: When Take That split speaking about Take That, it’s sentimentality is harmless up they had to set up hotlines to about a Take That tribute band enough until they start trying to deal with the public grief. and how ‘pretending to be some- pull on your heartstrings with Robbie Williams is the biggest one else can sometimes help you songs about, let’s say, the trials selling artist in Europe in the find out who you really are.’ The and tribulations of living with Arts: Bollywood comes to Film: Filmmaking Soc’s 21st century. When a Brighton main character is called Ash Hepatitis C. They just belittle Yorkshire, plus what’s on upcoming projects >> M22 drama student got kicked off Big Sherwood and he has hidden real issues by rhyming stuff like Brother the other day for being depths. I think there should be a ‘if I had a healthy liver/my heart before term’s end >> M18 B&R: The best pre-9.15 ignorant and racist she said, ‘But scene where the man playing I would give her.’ Someone Music: We chat to Kate lecture snacks >> M23 I’ve got so much more to give.’ Howard Donald sings a song should tell the people who write Don’t worry though, you can still about the difficult dilemma he these shows that they are mak- Nash and review York’s Listings: All the events to make friends with her on has to face. That is, should I get ing fun of, not representing, the favourite busker >> M20 end the year in style >> M24 Facebook. Andrew Lloyd dreadlocks and more accurately STI-afflicted. Webber is worth $56 million impersonate Howard, or should I suppose I should just and has spent a portion of that I sacrifice realism and chose dig- admit that I am really not a fan fortune on a pet Turkish swim- nity? Apparently they’re only of musical theatre as a genre. I ming cat. 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With all its living off pasta and baked potatoes, but I do Slow Down Week, which encourages people and blog with a progressive slant and often power to connect, the net also has the power have way too much stuff, most of which I to reconsider the relentless pace at which we features contributions from noteworthy jour- to divide: with all of us able to live in our own really don’t need. Before you stop reading, all live our lives; and Buy Nothing Day, an nalists, politicians and satirists. Set up by self-congratulatory bubbles, what need is I’m not going to become a complete eco- event which has been taken up around the journalist Arianna Huffington in 2005, the there to ever even think about listening to freak on you—I love my gadgets too much to world. The organisation also provides useful site has quickly become an important and someone whose world view digresses from go down that road. Nonetheless, I really feel information about alternative forms of con- renowned online resource. our own? So I have no doubt that, as I sit and the need to rethink the way I’ve been living. sumption. (They offer various items of con- Finally on our intellectual tour de force read some lefty rant at my computer about Enter Adbusters (www.adbusters.org). science friendly clothing.) is the website of Professor Richard Dawkins the failings of neoclassical economics, there’s Adbusters is a not-for-profit, anti-con- If I’m being really honest though, for all (richarddawkins.net/home), the prominent someone out there who thinks that it’s me sumerist organisation which originated in its worthiness, what really keeps me going and outspoken evolutionary biologist. who is the butt of the joke. 20/06/07 Columns M3 Russia in statue row with Estonia PhillippineSuspicious helicopter substance crashModbury kills found 7 at isflat Warm weather brings Earthquake shakes partfirst of to Kent ban risk of summer smog Man arrested in mugging ofMouse woman,plastic brain simulated 101bags on Police chief attacked over picturescomputer Man convicted of hammer killings The world’s gone mad Stories you might have missed Californian police rushed to the apartment of Matsayuki Sato upon hearing a distress message left by his two-year old shitsu, Tiddles.