Ian McKellen: 'Gandalf the Grey likes boogieing around Hobbiton and having a drink'

Ian McKellen in the Grapes, the pub he co-owns: “I’m on the side of people trying to make this world a better place,” he says. Photograph: Pal Hansen for the Observer It's not quite a hole in the…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 9, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2502 words)

Roxy Music: the band that broke the sound barrier

Roxy Music in their glam pomp. "The Perfect Guitarist" Buy the CD
PUBLISHED: Sept. 2, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2113 words)

All the Angry People

Until this fall, Ray Kachel had lived virtually all of his fifty-three years within a few miles of his birthplace, in Seattle. He was a self-taught Jack-of-all-trades in the computer industry, who…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 5, 2011
LENGTH: 3 minutes (983 words)
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