Bertha DocHouse; The Power of Documentary Film
Having previously noted myself to be a film geek, film enthusiast and film promoter there is no sector of film I love to root for more than documentary film. This has not always been the case. I used...
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New Season, or Old Tricks? London Theatre and the White Lead
Danny Lee Wynter on stage at Shakespeare's Globe as The Fool in King Lear opposite David Calder as Lear, 2008. Author's own picture. Yesterday I read another brochure for a newly announced season of...
View ArticleThe Voice 2015 The Quarter Final
Twelve acts remain and of those, four will leave tonight. No second chances. It will be pack your bags and Bon voyage! Like the coaches, Team Midas have picked their own acts. Of the remaining 12, we...
View ArticleEarth Hour: An Opportunity for All of Us to Demonstrate That We Care About...
'Little we see in Nature that is ours, Getting and spending we lay waste our powers,' - William Wordsworth, 1806 I've been an environmentalist for 25 years now. I don't drive a car, I recycle all my...
View ArticleChoose Your View - a YouTube First on FoodTube!
DJ BBQ is celebrating #NationalCorndogDay with a YouTube exclusive! For the very first time you can choose which camera angle you watch as he mixes up this amazing recipe. Click here to open the video...
View ArticleThe Clarkson Fracas Reveals My Biggest Crush
Dad-dressing petrol head Jeremy Clarkson has rarely been out of the news in recent weeks. Unless you've been camping in an isolated corner of the Outer Hebrides with only some weather worn goats and a...
View ArticleThe Music Industry - Another Political Underrepresentation
At the British Chinese Project, we fight for political representation of Chinese people in Britain. However, are we currently living in a society of political underrepresentation by the music scene?...
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THAT song. Time goes by. Things change. People change. I have always been outspoken. Less so nowadays. In an effort for young artists to gain from my experience, I always tell them to be careful what...
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DVD REVIEW: 'Hostages' - Original Israeli Series Is a Proper...
We've got used to taut overseas thrillers coming our way now, thanks to 'The Killing', and in its wake the likes of 'Spiral', 'Salamander', 'Inspector Montalbano'. As tightly-woven, unpredictable and...
View ArticleAre Children Still Interested in Books?
With the rise of the number of children reading on tablets, especially after Christmas, many parents are wondering whether there is any harm leaving their little ones use such technology. Another...
View ArticleNew Rules, New Survival Techniques
The estates had changed. I left in 92 and went back 2007. The places I remembered as working class now fell into two distinct camps: the first, a regentrified overtaking of a community. Sold off...
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Incredibly Cool Richard Diebenkorn Exhibition at Royal Academy
Some art exhibitions are easy to sell - Impressionist art, Rubens, Rembrandt... These are household names. So when an art gallery - in this case, the Royal Academy - take a risk and put on an...
View Article50 Shades of Meh: 'Insurgent' - The Review
The latest chapter in the Divergent series is a film of two halves. The first has all the appeal of wandering around one of those abandoned concrete-filled cities due for demolition. Greyness abounds....
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Thinking About EE's Anniversary a Month Later
If EastEnders' 30th anniversary proved anything this past 19 February, it was that the series could still grip the nation (that would be the UK) with a whodunit. Kudos to current executive producer...
View ArticleSelf-publishing News: Indie Writers Are Doing It for Themselves!
"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself." said Angela Carter, and that used to be about the closest most of us budding writers got to seeing our books in print. But it seems, for indie...
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The Day I Met Caitlin Moran
Caitlin Moran has a new series on Channel 4, Raised by Wolves. You've probably seen the adverts for it (I refuse to use the word "trail" because that's for TV schedulers and not real life. I'm already...
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Save HBO's 'Looking': The Best TV Series You're Not Watching
Currently airing on Sky Atlantic in the UK, is an American drama series about a small group of gay friends living in San Francisco. Its second series ends this week and, as yet, there is no news of a...
View ArticleThe Beauty of Battersea: Lessons From the Battersea Arts Centre Fire
On Friday 13th March, at 4.20pm, fire broke out in one of London's best loved cultural hubs, destroying the Grand Hall and offices of a 120 year-old building that for over 35 years has been Battersea...
View ArticleSaying Goodbye to Fred...
My Introduction to the world of disproportionate fears I had an odd experience the other day, all four of my clients were coincidentally wanting to discuss the same topic; anxiety. I have never...
View Article'Masterchef' - Not for the Faint-Hearted
I'm a Masterchef quarter finalist, nothing more, nothing less. Having never missed a beat of Masterchef series 10 I finally sat down to the lengthy application form for the 11th series of the...
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