David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...

Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, based on Henry James’s ghost story, is – usually – a taut, tense and terrifying opera, concentrated into just seven singers and an orchestra of 13.

Most people love lasers, because they can make cats chase, read music from a shiny disc, etch and cut materials, and be very shiny in Hollywood blockbusters, even when their presence makes zero ...