by Hannah Kane | Apr 3, 2015 | Culture
How would Jesus fare in a breakdancing competition? A lesser-asked question, perhaps. But it’s one that London-based artist Cosmo Sarson answered in 2013 with a glittering 28ft piece of headline-spawning street art. The mural, painstakingly crafted on a well-known...
by Hannah Kane | Mar 26, 2015 | Culture
The Northern Ballet returns to London with its sell-out sensation The Great Gatsby at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre. If you missed its first tour in 2013, as I did, this is your chance to pounce on tickets. But hurry – it’s only in town for seven performances....
by Hannah Kane | Mar 25, 2015 | Culture
This Easter, let the SOLSINE shine in… Easter is, for most of us, a rather odd time of year – spiritually hollow, inevitably rainy and overindulgent, when it should be the perfect opportunity to spring-clean your body and soul. So this year, may we suggest...
by Hannah Kane | Mar 23, 2015 | Culture
A luminous portrait of Alexander McQueen fills the whole wall in front of you as you enter the V&A’s exhibition space, but that’s where the Lee McQueen the man ends and McQueen the designer begins. There’s little mention of his early life and work as a...
by Hannah Kane | Mar 19, 2015 | Culture
Greg Taylor celebrates a very British actress on the cusp of global fame Sally Hawkins and Asa Butterfield in X+Y X+Y is a British coming-of-age drama about Nathan, an autistic boy, possibly a mathematical genius, who leaves his mother and tutor behind to go to Maths...
by Hannah Kane | Mar 17, 2015 | Culture
Literature is dead, long live literature Flash fiction is nothing new. Ernest Hemmingway is rumoured to have taken part in a bet that said he couldn’t write a short story that could make people cry in six words or less. For Sale. Baby shoes. Never worn, is what he...
