We had fine clothes, and feasting, and drum-beating, and fireworks let off in our village. It was a grand tamasha!

A Blackburn paper states that the experiment of weaving by electricity has for the first time been tried with perfect success at the loomworks of Messrs. Henry Livesey Limited, Greenbank, Blackburn. The works are illumined by electric light […]

It’s hard enough to separate the geeks from the creeps at your average Anime con (it’s more of a Venn Diagram than an either/or, really). The task becomes even more difficult at Arisia, where the sexual undertones are … not particularly undertoned.

[…] his strong jaw renders the face indeed “jowly” rather than oval, consequently the expression is normally hard, though open and not ill-humoured, whilst the smile which comes out of it is pleasant.