Paper Monitor
09:40 UK time, Friday, 30 December 2011
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
As an eventful 2011 splutters to its conclusion, the papers have already begun looking towards its successor.
In the former broadsheets - those that have recently turned tabloid and Berliner - the focus for the new year is cultural.
The Times's include Kenneth MacMillan's The Prince of the Pagodas at the Royal Ballet, television auteur Stephen Poliakoff's new series Dancing on the Edge and an exhibition celebrating Picasso's influence on British art at Tate Britain.
Meanwhile, the Guardian informs us that Mario Vargas Llosa's novel The Dream of the Celt, a celebration of Lucien Freud at the National Portrait Gallery and the World Shakespeare festival.
The Sun, however, chooses to look ahead in rather a different way.
Astrologer Mystic Meg is commissioned to look into her crystal ball and forsee how readers' finances will bear up over the forthcoming 12 months.
Sagittariuses are advised that the number seven will bring them "lottery luck", while, for Leos, "Jupiter kicks off 2012 in your success sector". Pisces are urged to ask for a pay rise and earn a little extra on the side by dabbling in household crafts.
Paper Monitor's predictive powers are somewhat less confident, but this column looks forward to continuing to celebrate the daily press's many and varied riches. A very happy new year to all Magazine readers.
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