Classics

Forecast calls for classics as cruise season starts (St. Thomas Times-Journal)

13 May 2008

By Jackie Gill For The Times-Journal It’s officially open season for cruising for the Lions in St. Thomas. Saturday officially kicked off the St. Thomas Lions club’s fourth annual cruise season in the Elgin Mall parking lot.

Album: Peter Bellamy, The Transports (Free Reed) (Independent)

13 May 2008

Just one of a host of reissued classics in Free Reed’s Revival Masters series, this 1977 ballad opera remains one of the most impressive works of English folk music.

What can Boris learn from the classics? (BBC News)

13 May 2008

The new London mayor, Boris Johnson, has been accused of lacking experience and political nous, but he has always boasted one qualification for government - a good grasp of Latin and Greek. So what can politicians learn from antiquity?