Suicide: Dream Baby Dream

Alan Vega—solo artist and one half of Suicide—passed away this weekend, aged 76. Vega (born Boruch Alan Bermowitz) and his bandmate Martin Rev influenced countless musicians (most notably Bruce Springsteen) with their minimal and experimental take on punk music. Their sublime song “Dream Baby Dream” (1979) is one of their best known and most ethereal. At the time, their music sounded quite unlike anything else—proving …

New Dwarf Planet Discovered

Many space enthusiasts feel sorry for Pluto: it was reclassified as a dwarf planet and even used as a verb—”to pluto” something is to devalue and downgrade it. But new evidence suggests Pluto isn’t so sad after all—it has a friend. The recently discovered planet, named RR245, is in the Kuiper Belt (a region beyond Neptune that’s populated by icy objects) and orbits the sun …

Visiting Joan Miró’s Creative Refuge in Mallorca

A quiet place for inspiration within the hubbub of Palma

In between the sun, sea, sand and freshly caught seafood that comprise the Balearic Islands experience, there’s also artistic inspiration to be found. Mallorcaa top tourist destination for Britshas its share of embarrassing headlines featuring overzealous young partiers, but there’s a reason Catalan artist Joan Mir chose to live the rest of his life here (beyond his mother Dolors Ferr and wife Pilar being Mallorcan) …