We love it when people paint a colourful portrait of our native town, London – one that makes us stop, look and listen, and think a little bit more about our surroundings. Canadian author and playwright Craig Taylor, has done just that, collating all his observations and conversations into a very colourful book for us... Read more
Stop the mother fuckin’ press… We’ve launched an alive and kickin’ physical magazine version of Art Wednesday called [cue drum roll...] AWE – as in Art Wednesday Editorial (yes we thought the name was rather clever too). It’s going to be a bi-annual publication focusing on arts, a bit of fashion and a lot of... Read more
We get sent an awful lot of press releases about street art these days, and it’d be easy to imagine that it was because, as an art form, it’s only become more popular, turning from something which was pegged as the pastime of thugs and hooligans, into a multi-million-dollar medium. We know what the real... Read more
Words by Sara Philippidis. Bookstores, for me, have always been an Aladdin’s cave of hidden treasures. The musty smell, the endless rows of magical pages that will take me away to another world – allow me to ignore my red letter bills for a brief period of time, and immerse myself in a fantasy. Bookstores... Read more
If you’re starting to feel that your brain has devolved into so much icy mush in the bleak new year, fear not! Stephen McEwen is back with his ‘The Book I Read’ series, waxing lyrical about literature in the hopes of getting you all back on the reading wagon. In the first installment of 2011,... Read more
Have you been reading much lately? Stephen McEwen certainly has. In ‘The Book I Read’, he tells you which classic tomes you should be turning your attention to in lieu of – well, actually, we can’t put the usual X Factor joke in here, because it’s finished for this year. Bloody Matt Cardle. In this... Read more
A while back, BoingBoing posted a covering letter which Hunter S. Thompson had sent to the Vancouver Sun in 1958; it was bold, brash, cocky, unmistakably of the author’s style and, fantastically enough, manages to make him seem like the biggest asshole you’d ever desperately want to work for your newspaper. We’re not saying that... Read more
Words by Stephen McEwen. ‘Ever since, I still find myself awaking in the night, crying. For more than fifty years, this scene is played over and over tirelessly in front of my very eyes. I will never forget this barbaric murder of my love. In front of my eyes, in front of our eyes. As... Read more
Have you been reading much lately? Stephen McEwen certainly has. In ‘The Book I Read’, he tells you which classic tomes you should be turning your attention to in lieu of watching The X Factor – less Gamu, more Camus, if you will. Up next – the poetry of Philip Larkin. ‘Life is first boredom,... Read more
Have you been reading much lately? Stephen McEwen certainly has. In ‘The Book I Read’, he tells you which classic tomes you should be turning your attention to in lieu of watching The X Factor – less Gamu, more Camus, if you will. This week’s mind-expander – The Duchess Of Malfi. ‘The misery of us... Read more