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		<title>Horslips: the back of the van</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story from Barry Devlin didn&#8217;t quite make it to the final draft of the Horslips interview in today&#8217;s News Letter for space reasons, but I thought it was worth publishing somewhere: &#8220;In 1973 or 74, the roadies lent me their truck to get home from a gig because my car had broken down. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=imitatingart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4487532&amp;post=506&amp;subd=imitatingart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>X Factor &#8211; the jewel in ITV&#8217;s crown?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A funny thing happened&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a bit of space left in today&#8217;s Weekend when the lovely News Letter sub editor Valeria Higgins (nee Gribakina) suggested she would review comedian Adam Hills&#8217; show in Belfast on Wednesday night. I&#8217;ve linked to the piece here.  But it turns out she wasn&#8217;t the only person writing about the show, as Adam Hills himself illustrates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=imitatingart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4487532&amp;post=488&amp;subd=imitatingart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the absence of actual blogging&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A brighter bonfire</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk about bonfires at this time of year and certain images come to mind – but brightly coloured fairy tale castles would probably not be among them. Yet one Northern Ireland estate bucked the stereotypes and showed that creativity is the key to a spectacular bonfire. In Park Hall in Antrim there was a structure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=imitatingart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4487532&amp;post=481&amp;subd=imitatingart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bad news</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few random thoughts on the death of Michael Jackson: He was one of the few cultural icons of the modern era, a musical colossus and global megastar the like of which we may never see again. He was also a deeply flawed human being who never quite looked comfortable away from the stage, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=imitatingart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4487532&amp;post=474&amp;subd=imitatingart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A plan coming together?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find this hard to believe but, according to showbiz bible Variety, Liam Neeson is in talks to appear in an upcoming A-Team film. The 57-year-old actor from Ballymena is set to play John &#8216;Hannibal&#8217; Smith, the role made famous by George Peppard in the 1980s TV show. Production on the film is due to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=imitatingart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4487532&amp;post=466&amp;subd=imitatingart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fired up.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;ve been caught out by reality TV before &#8211; thinking the events on screen were as a result of random chance rather than the manipulative influence of producers &#8211; and I should probably know better. But this year&#8217;s Apprentice finale just left me feeling angry, frustrated and duped. The show, which had spent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=imitatingart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4487532&amp;post=462&amp;subd=imitatingart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The final curtain, for this year at least</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve finally got round to putting up my reviews of the plays from the Ulster Drama Festival. The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that they&#8217;re all positive. This is not a sign that I&#8217;m going soft, but an indication of the quality on show during this event. It is, after all, the outstanding productions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=imitatingart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4487532&amp;post=455&amp;subd=imitatingart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ulster Drama Festival &#8211; Play Six</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Black Stranger &#8211; Lifford Players Death, misery and the Famine. It&#8217;s not an easy sell for a Saturday night. In a week that&#8217;s seen screwball comedy, family squabbles, more than a few violent confrontations and a visual poem, it might not seem like the most appealing of endings. But this Irish play, written in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=imitatingart.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4487532&amp;post=448&amp;subd=imitatingart&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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