On 17 August City Connect celebrates the birthday of acclaimed American actor, producer and director Robert De Niro who was born on this day back in 1943. Robert De Niro [...]
Archive for May 21st, 2012
Film Review – American Pie: Reunion
With the latest release of the Marvel franchise, Avengers Assemble, hitting our screens last month, it is little surprise that one of the year’s hotly anticipated sequels, American Pie: Reunion, somewhat slipped under the wire. The fourth of the original series, the eight of the overall franchise, this instalment saw all of the class of ’99 [...]
Exergy, Existentialism and the Environment
Exergy is perhaps an unfamiliar concept. Energy we can fairly easily get to grips with, it’s a measure of the ability of a system to do work. Work is what causes a system to change its energy state…hmm…first law of thermodynamics. But, what is exergy and where does it fit into the energy equation? By [...]
Ask City Connect
Ask Tom – Matching Food and Wine
Dear Tom
Can you tell me how to match food and wine ? Should I stick with the classics – what about modern dishes?
Matching food and wine is probably more art [...]
Style
Gardening on a Budget
Gardening has become a low priority in the current tough economic climate. Recent research shows that a staggering 47% of us spent nothing at all on our outdoor areas in [...]
Relationships
The Dating Diary of Miss X – Chapter 7
In Cha pter 7 of The Dating Diary of Miss X, our very single and very anonymous Miss X talks about how things went with Mr LinkedIn from Chapter 6.
It was very bizarre as I contacted [...]
