Now Here’s The News From Your Area
Richard Lutz clicks on the tv to see what’s happening on the local news.
Murdoch-gate: It’ll take Years, So Be Patient
Richard Lutz says there is no fast fix to the News of the World scandal. So, sit back and wait
‘I Did NOT Have Inappropriate Sex’
The Prime Minister wouldn’t say whether he had ever talked about the possible BSkyB sale
Of Murdoch, Responsibility and Power
As Rebekah Brooks slowly slips over the horizon, let’s kick off with a famous quote: ’With great power comes great responsibility.’
Murdoch Redux: The Corruption Gets Worse
Richard Lutz witnesses another rollout of media sleaze, police incompetency and football greed. Ahh well, just another day in the UK.
Greg Allman: Review
Richard Lutz doesn’t get bangs for his bucks from the Greg Allman shows that landed in Birmingham.
Merchant of Venice: Review
Richard Lutz takes his seat at Stratford- on- Vegas for the latest Royal Shakespeare Company play. This is a production you will either love or hate: Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice placed emphatically and over the top in Las Vegas complete with Elvis, casinos, drunk gamblers and a Yank accents (some of them suspect). It is…
The Heat, Brummies and The Long Long Evenings
I’m not one to go on and on about Birmingham. Just like I was never one to go on and on about other cities I lived in
The China Visit, Human Rights and Wrongs
Two Chinese faces peep out from the front pages of the papers this week: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and activist Ai Weiwei.
Review: Dunsinane at Stratford
Richard Lutz takes his seat at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Swan Theatre for a play about MacBeth …and Afghanistan
Blues Legend Greg Allman to Play Birmingham
Richard Lutz gets the incense and Jack Daniels out for the Greg Allman night at Symphony Hall in a month’s time.
New Mobile Study: Warnings Over Cancer Risk – But Now You Can Be Part of Major UK Study
Richard Lutz has always been suspicious that everytime he picked up a mobile there was a digi-signal lining up a bullseye inside his head.
Osama: The Questions Remain- Despite Cheryl Cole
Richard Lutz returns to a subject that our readers can’t ignore
Twitter, Giggs and You: The Digi-Mob Rules
There was once a village. And in this village there was a slew of gossip – work gossip, hot gossip, bad gossip, outright untrue gossip, relevant gossip.
RSC’s City Madam: All Dressed Up with a Need For Some Tailoring
Oooo…Nothing like a ribald play filled with fops, tarts and dandies, writes Richard Lutz
One Law for Us…Another Laws For Them
So, this is what it has come to…
Politician David Laws deceived us, the taxpayer, out of tens of thousands of pounds to hide the fact that he has a male partner.
Rover Revulsion and The Phoenix Four
Richard Lutz laments the supine decision to allow the former Rover bosses to walk away from a disaster they created
Osama: The Questions That Must Be Asked
Now that the dust is settling over the killing of Osama bin Laden, there are some uncomfortable issues that must be addressed
Obama 1-Osama 0: The US Gets Its Man
From Richard Lutz It’s safe to say that one of the major questions to arise from the Osama bin Laden death is: just what did the Pakistani military know or not know? The terrorist’s compound was within spitting distance of the national military academic, a place akin to Sandhurst. It was a compound with 15…
Royal Shakespeare Company’s Cardenio: To Bard Or Not To Bard
Richard Lutz reviews Shakespeare’s lost play at Stratford.
Royal Shakespeare Company’s Macbeth: Too Tricky By Half
Richard Lutz takes his seat for the new season in Stratford
Sweet Caroline
Richard Lutz continues his trip through the United States and reports from the depths of the American South
Taking The Red Line to Baseball and America
Richard Lutz takes in a game in Chicago and learns a thing or two about the state of the States
Shut the Screws
I would never let a criminal into my house. I would call the police in case he robbed me, hurt my family or stole my property or my mind.
April the First- And It’s All True
Richard Lutz flips the calendar over to April the First to see what’s happening on Planet Earth today.
West Mids Arts Feels the Cold Wind of the Cutback
The Arts Council wielded its axe today in response to the government demand to chop back spending in the cultural world.
Review: The Tempest at Stratford
Richard Lutz reviews a grown up production that isn’t child’s play
Review: King Lear at Stratford
It was only last winter that I wrote a review of the Stratford production of King Lear. But a year is a long time in the whacky world of Thesbo-land….
Of Andy and The Arms Trade
Richard Lutz pitches in with a warning about the UK’s very own special representative for international trade and investment.
Review: Birmingham Royal Ballet
Richard Lutz adds a second insight into Le Fille mal Gardee among the kindergarden critics.