Great Regulars: Self-described "poet, performer and savant" Tim Key (32)

opened a few doors this past weekend at the Edinburgh Fringe when he snagged both the competition's top comedy prize (£8000) and a trio of invitations to perform at international festivals--Montreal, Toronto and Chicago--for his highly original piece, The Slutcracker, a work The Guardian's comedy critic, Brian Logan, lauded for its "off-kilter ambience" as well as "the beauty that peeps through the silliness."

from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: Poetic 'Slutcracker' Tim Key

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Perhaps because he resented [Federico García] Lorca's refusal to collaborate with him on a film the previous year, or more probably because he detected Lorca's homosexuality and objected to it, [Luis] Buñuel had come to loathe what he described as Lorca's 'extreme narcissism' and 'terrible aestheticism.'"

Now, according to Fiona Govan writing in The Brisbane Times, although the Spanish authorities cleared the way to exhume the poet's remains long ago, the family intransigently refused to grant permission to do so until, it seems, last week (when his relatives dropped their objection to disturbing his eternal rest).

from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: Finally! The end of Federico García Lorca's horrifying saga

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