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Hiraeth and Home
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Hiraeth and Home
We’re hoping to go back to Tibet again this year.
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January 13, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Memorably vulnerable heroines in Madrid
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Memorably vulnerable heroines in Madrid
Asmik Grigorian sings Verdi's Desdemona, Ermonela Jaho Mascagni's Iris
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January 6, 2026 at 7:18 PM
'Tis The Season
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'Tis The Season
A Tibetan Hangover Cure
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December 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Dispensing Momos This Christmas
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Dispensing Momos This Christmas
+ a little bah humbug
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December 2, 2025 at 9:43 AM
LRN No. 61: transported by books
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LRN No. 61: transported by books
Plus: when prison officers have affairs with inmates - and what it says about our prisons
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November 21, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Buddhists Don't Do Birthdays
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Buddhists Don't Do Birthdays
Did you catch our poster boy posing outside Taste Tibet on Saturday?
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November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Taste Tibet is 5! Free Momos Incoming
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Taste Tibet is 5! Free Momos Incoming
Sometimes we get so stuck in the day-to-day that we can forget where we’ve come from.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Even when unthinkable things were happening to me, my first instinct was to work. Am I addicted?
It was only years later, when I heard the word workaholic being used seriously for the first time, that I wondered whether I had a problem
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November 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
LRN No. 59: exposing yourself
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LRN No. 59: exposing yourself
Plus: my Ferris Bueller birthday
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October 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Chef Gets Political
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Chef Gets Political
Those of you who’ve been following us for a while know that we’re not too shy in coming forwards.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Salzburg: opera highs and lows
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Salzburg: opera highs and lows
Mozart's fragment Zaïde reconstructed in an unforgettable semi-staging masterminded by conductor, Raphaël Picton
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September 29, 2025 at 9:38 AM
LRN No. 57: where are all the sex robots?
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LRN No. 57: where are all the sex robots?
2025 was supposed to be a big year for sex robots.
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September 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
In Praise Of Pema
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In Praise Of Pema
Yeshi told me not to write about Pema’s reunion this week with her family, 14 months after she left her home in India to come and work at Taste Tibet.
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September 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
LRN No. 56: Happy Birthday, Unreported World
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LRN No. 56: Happy Birthday, Unreported World
Plus: now vicars know the going rate for a hitman
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September 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Obfuscating Fauré
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Obfuscating Fauré
The Munich Opera festival staged Pénélope, I Masnadieri and Die Liebe der Danaë
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September 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
LRN No. 55: the necklace that tells you if your friends really like you
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LRN No. 55: the necklace that tells you if your friends really like you
How much would you trade for ever-present reassurance?
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August 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
LRN No. 52: this is my chuffed face
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LRN No. 52: this is my chuffed face
Plus: planet earth after global thermonuclear war is still better than mars
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July 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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June 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
LRN No. 51: Me & My Mess
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LRN No. 51: Me & My Mess
Plus: top secret Post-It Notes
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June 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Cosmetic Rosenkavalier; Spellbinding Trittico
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Cosmetic Rosenkavalier; Spellbinding Trittico
Véronique Gens debuts at the Marschallin, Asmik Grigorian nails Puccini's hat-trick in Paris
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June 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
LRN No.50: the Google alert nobody wants
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LRN No.50: the Google alert nobody wants
I hope this gets through your spam filters
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June 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Open Tomorrow!
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Open Tomorrow!
TT debuts a delicious new momo at the Magdalen Road Summer Festival
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June 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Fassbaender's Search for the Holy Grail
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Fassbaender's Search for the Holy Grail
The former mezzo stages Parsifal in Frankfurt
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June 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Starry Handel Nights at the Barbican
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Starry Handel Nights at the Barbican
Spyres and DiDonato sing Storgè and Jephtha, Alder dazzles as Cleopatra
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May 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
LRN No.49: face blindness
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LRN No.49: face blindness
Plus: giant hero rats to the rescue
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May 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM