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Sean Thomas

April 2009

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    Can you tweet a secret?

    Sean Thomas: Secret Tweet is a cyber-confessional where you can post, anonymously, the most bizarre and devastating secrets

June 2005

  • Bach meets Radiohead

    Pop: I touch Myself by the Divinyls, a gloriously sleazy 80s single, is hardly an obvious choice of material for a chorus of teenage Belgian maidens. But that's the kind of song the Scala choir chooses to cover.

May 2005

  • Hard cell

    Inspired to get the abbey habit by TV series The Monastery, Sean Thomas checks into a retreat in Beaujolais.

February 2005

  • Paint the town red

    Art: Art and prostitution have long been bedfellows - just think of Shakespeare's Mistress Quickly, or Hogarth's Harlot's Progress.

January 2005

  • Track the stash

  • Portraits of a serial killer?

December 2004

  • This epic Earth

    Is it a monumental way to adorn the planet - or just arrogant vandalism? Sean Thomas reports on the rise of 'land art'.

August 2004

  • Elemental living

    A community on a strip of Scottish land relies on DIY windmills for almost all its power. But are residents weathering the storm gladly, asks Sean Thomas.

January 2004

  • Looking for the sun

    Fed up with the depressing winter weather, Sean Thomas decided to escape to hotter climes. Along with his brother, he got into a car and drove south - destination unknown, but 70F minimum.

May 2003

  • Cookie monster

    How did a biscuit factory in New York become home to some of the greatest modern art? Sean Thomas reports.

September 2002

  • When my best mate became a woman

    If five phrases summed up Joe they would be: Stella Artois, snooker, cricket, Star Wars and Nottingham Forest FC. The word transsexual would not be on that list.' By Sean Thomas.

June 2002

  • How the other half lives

    No female has set foot in the monastic community of Mount Athos for 1,000 years. Sean Thomas paid a visit to the last stronghold of masculinity.
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