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Brief by Joseph Wilson on 27 Oct 2009
Reina robbed by the ricochet

Pepe Reina seems to be cursed.  Not exactly in a bad way.  Just a very weird way.   Not only was he actually hit by a Real Madrid fan during a game in the Bernabéu way back when he still had hair in 2001, but now he is victim of surely the oddest goal ever witnessed in the Premier League when the introduction of a bouncing red ball converted the pitch into a bumperpool table.

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Brief by Louis Hearn on 25 Oct 2009
Morrissey collapses onstage after pampering life’s complexities

“Good evening … probably,” was how Morrissey greeted his audience after arriving on stage at a concert last night in Swindon, Wiltshire.

According to The Guardian, the 50-year-old former Smiths frontman then jumped into a rendition of This Charming Man and promptly collapsed, suffering from respiratory problems. As he was being pulled offstage by band members, the crowd reportedly began booing.

He was taken by ambulance to Great Western hospital. A spokesman for the hospital has described his condition as stable.

Morrissey has already talked about retiring within 5 years, saying, “It’s very …

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Brief by Louis Hearn on 21 Oct 2009
Clumps and a bump: the sculpture of Aristide Maillol

Finally, La Pedrera brings us an exhibit we can really sink our teeth into. Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) was a scupltor, painter and visionary. Unlike a lot of those confrontational artsy types of the twentieth century, Maillol was a man who knew what his audience liked and gave them lots of it.

Originally from Rousillon (French Catalonia), Maillol moved to Paris in 1881 and became friends with art badboy Paul Gauguin. While Gaugin passed his time painting nubile Tahitian girls, he encouraged Maillol to take up the gentler art form of tapestry.