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From today's featured articleSasha (born 4 September 1969) is a Welsh DJ and record producer, best known for his live events, electronic music as a solo artist, and collaborations with British DJ John Digweed. He topped DJ Magazine's Top 100 DJs poll in 2000, and is a four-time International Dance Music Awards winner, four-time DJ Awards winner and Grammy Award nominee. He began his career playing acid house dance music in the late 1980s. In 1993 he partnered with Digweed, touring internationally. Sasha has remixed tracks for artists including Madonna, The Chemical Brothers and Hot Chip. He has produced three albums of original works: The Qat Collection in 1994, Airdrawndagger in 2002 and Scene Delete in 2016. His use of live audio engineering equipment helped popularise technological innovations among DJs who formerly relied on records and turntables. In 2007 he formed a record label with Renaissance Records called emFire. (Full article...)
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Wells Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Wells, Somerset, commenced around 1175; it is predominantly built in the Early English style. This interior view shows the nave, looking towards the altar. The arcade, which takes the same form in the nave, choir and transepts, is distinguished by the richness of both mouldings and carvings. Each pier of the arcade has a surface enrichment of 24 slender shafts in eight groups of three, rising beyond the capitals to form the deeply undulating mouldings of the arches. The capitals themselves are remarkable for the vitality of the stylised foliage, in a style known as "stiff-leaf". The liveliness contrasts with the formality of the moulded shafts and the smooth unbroken areas of ashlar masonry in the spandrels. Each capital is different, and some contain small figures illustrating narratives. The vault of the nave rises steeply in a simple quadripartite form, in harmony with the nave arcade. The eastern end of the choir was extended and the whole upper part elaborated in the second quarter of the 14th century by William Joy. The vault has a multiplicity of ribs in a net-like form, which is very different from that of the nave, and is perhaps a recreation in stone of a local type of compartmented wooden roof of which examples remain from the 15th century, including those at St Cuthbert's Church, Wells. The vaults of the aisles of the choir also have a unique pattern. Photograph credit: David Iliff
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