LIFESTYLE

U3A takes on extreme sports challenge

U3A takes on extreme sports challenge

What makes 40 well-balanced, intelligent third agers decide to face the challenge of abseiling down Portsmouth’s 100 metre high Spinnaker Tower as they did at 8 am on a sunny morning in mid May? The c ...
It takes three to tango!

It takes three to tango!

Robert Tanitch reviews Milonga at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London EC1 The tango began in the bars and brothels in Buenos Aires in the 1870s.  The most likely place to find the tango today is on the com ...
David Alden puts his cards on the table

David Alden puts his cards on the table

Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s The Queen of Spades at London Coliseum. Tchaikovsky was moved to tears by Hermann’s death. But in Alexander Pushkin’s 1833 novella the tormented Hermann, the compulsive ga ...