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Euan Ferguson is a columnist and writer for the British newspaper, The Observer. His weekly magazine column recounts anecdotes from his life.

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The making of Saint Shakira

Something very strange happens, in the company of Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoli, to cynicism. After a while, even the blandest of statements has you nodding away, enthralled – not that there are too many, but before we get on to the sociopathy of the ...

From EUAN FERGUSON, Guardian Unlimited,  21 Nov 2009
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World through a lens: Gare Loch, Friday 20 November

It looks strangely like a welcome. Arms raised; one pair of hands extended as if in applause; and the one concession to colour, under the hodden skies pressing down on Scotland's Gare Loch, splashes from the rainbow flag being waved in the bottom left. ...

From EUAN FERGUSON, Guardian Unlimited,  21 Nov 2009
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Lumiere, Durham | Art

'Crown of Light' by Ross Ashton, featuring pages from the 7th century Lindisfarne Gospels, is projected on to Durham Cathedral. Photograph: Gary Calton Some cities, some places, suit their clothes. Edinburgh has always struck me as perfect for the ...

From EUAN FERGUSON, Guardian Unlimited,  14 Nov 2009
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What a tawdry place is tabloid Britain | Euan Ferguson

This not a mean-spirited country. I walked one night last week, for hours, up and down the lovely, wearying streets of Durham, in the company of vast crowds, come for the first night of a splendid city-wide son et lumiere display, and the mood was of ...

From EUAN FERGUSON, Guardian Unlimited,  14 Nov 2009
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The world through a lens

ITV X Factor contestants arrive for the world premiere of Disney's A Christmas Caro' at the Odeon Leicester Square, London, England. Photograph: Gareth Cattermole/Getty I recall a time, it seems just – just! – about 20 years ago, presumably around the ...

From EUAN FERGUSON, Guardian Unlimited,  7 Nov 2009
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All-women shortlists for the Tory party? Rubbish idea, Dave

It's not often I find myself muttering in agreement with Disgruntled of the Shire, the old-school style of Tory activist (often charming, often bonkers) who thinks the world went to pot around the time Blithe Spirit was being filmed. But David ...

From EUAN FERGUSON, Guardian Unlimited,  24 Oct 2009
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Not Black and White | Theatre interview

Kilburn's Tricyle theatre has a proud if relatively young tradition of dramatic interpretations of current affairs, seen most recently in the deeply impressive Stockwell, which told the tale of the death of Jean Charles de Menezes through transcripts ...

From EUAN FERGUSON, Guardian Unlimited,  17 Oct 2009
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The perils of moving house. Especially when it always goes so wrong

It's no coincidence, surely, that in the whole wide history of books, and all their weird and unpredictable and inexplicable titles (my favourite is still How to Avoid Huge Ships, although I came across one last week called How to Write While Sleeping; ...

From EUAN FERGUSON, Comment Is Free,  17 Oct 2009
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When ballet met science

Of all the creative processes, this is the one I don't get. I can understand, if not necessarily replicate, the way ideas get written down in narrative or poetic form: can fathom with little trouble and much enjoyment the way melody sometimes so ...

From EUAN FERGUSON, Guardian Unlimited,  10 Oct 2009
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And Another Thing... Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three by Eoin Colfer | Book review

The Hitchhiker phenomenon has always, I suspect, been personal and subjective, not global. Depending on how you came to it – books, radio series, film – its legions of fans have always taken from it something slightly different. I always thought all ...

From EUAN FERGUSON, EOIN COLFER, Guardian Unlimited,  10 Oct 2009
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