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You thought that summer was over, that hedonistic, festival-style recipe of vibrant colour, costumes and junk food had been shelved until 2013 – and that you wouldn’t be dancing with a dinosaur in a shiny onesie for a few months at least. Right? Wrong. Sparkly Brooklyn import Reed + Rader…
It was 1992 when a small film festival first appeared in two Scottish cities, Edinburgh and Glasgow celebrating the rich cinematic tradition of our Gallic neighbours. Fast forward to 2012, and the French Film Festival is now one of the UK’s most enduring and exciting film festivals. Major cities across…
Madani Younis, the new artistic director of the Bush theatre, opened the Radar Festival last week with a cheeky paean to the Shepherd Bush area and its eponymous theatre. Over the next three weeks, he explained, the Bush will host discussions about the shape and possibilities of contemporary theatre, along with…
After a summer of sport, the Olympic Park passes the baton to Picturehouse Cinemas in Stratford for Sci-Fi London East, a weekend of dystopian nightmares, adventurous weaponry, and surreal hyper-violence from 9-11 November. As well as 9 metaphysical and infectious cinematic traumas (including 3 UK premieres), the festival is hosting…
It’s less than an hour away from London and offers breathtaking architecture, a rich cultural heritage – plus the locals love their bikes. Matilda Egere-Cooper heads to Cambridge and discovers why this pretty university town should be on your tick list before school’s back in session… Before I visited Cambridge,…
Don’t know if you heard but there’s a little sporting event happening in London this summer… it’s got a little bit of media attention… so in homage of the mighty Olympic Games, The Book Club in Shoreditch is hosting its own sporty event Shoreditch- style called Basecamp. Taking place July…