A few cartoons related to Brexit and the upcoming UK referendum




A few cartoons related to Brexit and the upcoming UK referendum




… I mean, performing high sport

More than 170 countries signed the landmark Paris Climate Change Agreement at the UN this month to reduce global emissions beyond 2020. Actor and environmental advocate Leonardo DiCaprio said this was the “Earth’s last best hope”.


The BBC reported:
“We are only four months in, but it’s already been a dark, dark 2016”
“Enough, 2016” and a more vulgar alternative are phrases people are uttering.
It now seems rare for a week to pass without a significant celebrity death being reported.
It’s a jump from only five between January and late March 2012 to a staggering 24 in the same period this year.

One often most sought-after lyric sopranos today, Nicole Cabell returned to Covent Garden this month for two performances as the lead Violetta in the Royal Opera House’s latest season of LA TRAVIATA, a role she previously played in the San Francisco production in 2014. With African American Korean and Caucasian ancestry, Nicole grew up in the Californian beach community of Ventura before gracing the world’s Opera stages. After winning the 2005 ‘BBC Singer of the World’ Competition in Cardiff, she made her London debut at THE PROMS the following year and for the Royal Opera in LA JUIVE at the Barbican.
Nichols signed this drawing I did of her as Violetta at the ROH after her final performance on 19 March.
My one and only time I saw the ‘Starman’ in concert was in Wellington, New Zealand in 2004 as part of his A REALITY TOUR. This was my review.




