Cape Fear Fencing Association
The information on the JO qualifiers is up on askfred.net. It will be a one day event on November 17th, at the Apex Fencing Academy in Apex. The actual JOs are in Columbus, Ohio, on President’s Day Weekend in February...
Cape Fear Fencing Association
No need to read farther if you are not participating in the NCFL. The first meet is at our place on Saturday, November 2nd. The NCFL wants a roster from each school. I believe their software will be able to sort it out if you all submit your own information.
Cape Fear Fencing Association
The Alexander family pulled triple sixes at the Magic City RYC (Regional Youth Circuit) in Birmingham, Alabama, over the weekend. On Saturday, Amelia fenced well in the Y14 foil, going 3-1 in her pool, then winning her first DE before dropping the second to the eventual second place finisher.
Living by the Sword
LONDON at the turn of the 17th century; the dawn of modern capitalism, and the sudden emergence of a whole class of nouveau riche types awash with cash, and ripe for exploitation by urban chancers and scam-merchants.
Living by the Sword
RECEIVING its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival over its middle weekend, Our Ladies (***), Michael Caton-Jones’s adaptation of Alan Warner’s cult 1998 novel The Sopranos, has gone from being...
Living by the Sword
The giant waves that break off Mullaghmore Head in Ireland’s County Sligo are as serious as you’ll find anywhere in the world. Last winter, experienced local surfer John Monahan nearly drowned there after breaking his femur and two ribs during a wipeout.
Alliance Fencing Academy
A great weekend for Alliance fencers at the first international Cadet tournament of the season in Budapest Hungary! Elizabeth Wang and Miles Weiss represented the United States in the team event portion of the tournament and helped bring their teams to a gold and silver medal finish respectively.
Living by the Sword
The subtitle “Poetry In The Twentieth Century” might lead you to expect a historical survey, something that would have been an extraordinary undertaking, even if restricted to work first written in the English language.
Living by the Sword
This thoroughly haunting collection of short stories from Kirsty Logan begins with a note from someone who, we assume, must be the author. While writing this book, she informs us, she spent a month on retreat in Iceland.
Living by the Sword
They’ve performed in abandoned Glasgow offices, danced to Bach, run music together like an iPod on shuffle, and plenty more besides. “Redefining the string orchestra” is the Scottish Ensemble’s motto, and the group more than meets any expectations that phrase raises with its experimental...
Living by the Sword
In many ways, care workers are frontline troops in the battle over wealth, power and resources that is now raging in the UK, and some other western countries. Paid insulting poverty wages to do the arduous and vital job of caring for elderly people in their own homes...
Cape Fear Fencing Association
John Alexander competed at the Apex Novice Cup in Apex yesterday. He went undefeated in the Y10 foil winning the gold medal. In the Y12/Y14 epee he was the youngest competitor by about two years and had the opposite result.
Living by the Sword
There was a tide of enthusiasm when Philip Pullman announced a new book set in the world of His Dark Materials, La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One. It was, in many ways, a muted affair. Rather than the cosmological battles of the original trilogy...
Cape Fear Fencing Association
I didn’t realize until after I sent my Sunday note that this weekend is Riverfest in Wilmington. That means it would be very difficult to park anywhere near the club Saturday morning, so no practice....
Living by the Sword
Look up the word “panopticon” and you’ll find that it refers to a design for a prison or other institution, originated by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the 1790s. Bentham imagined a circular building...
