Ever fewer spectators are turning up.A surfeit of short Test series does not help—especially between poor teams (such as that just ended between Bangladesh and a second-string West Indian team).
While the Ashes are taking place before full houses (between two evenly matched teams who are not of the very top rank), a third-string West Indies side are being beaten by Bangladesh, watched by almost nobody.
Elbow fans will find themselves at home on songs such as the title track, a gentle three-legged lullaby in which a kora (the 21-string West African lute) adds to the reassurance Garvey is offering a troubled friend.
Cameron is shunning Cornwall for another staycation - my money's on Jura - after a string of West country mishaps.
Gray described the diaries as a great liberation from the tight discipline of playwriting, which formed the bedrock of his career, with a string of West End and Broadway successes to his name, beginning with Wise Child in 1967.
He was 40 and had weathered 10 years (and over 500 parts) in regional rep, a string of West End duds, a couple of saving hits and, in 1874, a stirring Hamlet that had marked him out as the most unconventional actor of his generation.
He was a dazzling prodigy from the age of ten, encouraged by his father "Big Ron" who ran a string of West End sex shops.
From the School for Strings on West 54th Street, a petite mom and her daughter exit.
Donations in her name can be made to The School for Strings, 419 West 54th Street, NYC, 10019.
Hidden from the street was a garden courtyard, and the Alimar was divided into two stacks of 11-room apartments north and south, the entertaining rooms strung along West End Avenue.
Portland may seem an unlikely place for such status, a city destined to play second string on the West Coast to San Francisco and Seattle.
