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Over 500 students from the University of Brighton are set to showcase their work from 31 May to 5 June at the acclaimed Burt, Brill and Cardens Graduate Show 2008.

Elizabeth Thomas

An annual highlight of the arts calendar for the South, the university’s renowned Faculty of Arts and Architecture is transformed into a massive gallery displaying work in a staggering range of medias and subject areas from 25 courses.

Attracting over 15,000 visitors each year, the graduate show is accompanied by a bumper programme of activities in the university garden, including the much talked about Graduate Fashion Show on Saturday 31 May (tickets are required). A free Family Day will take place on Sunday 1 June with the return of the hugely popular Big Knit, where novices and pros come together with their knitting needles. This year will also give families the chance to enter Has Brighton Got Talent? – a talent contest presented by the Brighton theatre group, Waggingtongues. There are also special pre-booked art tours organised for local schools during the week – a great way to inspire young people about a career in the creative industries. Read the rest of this article »

Latest 7 talks to Mathieu Amalric about his roles in Heartbeat Detector and the new James Bond film

I don’t know if you’ve had a corporate office job in France, but would you say that SC Farb is typical of a French corporation?Nicolas Klotz, the director, didn’t ask me to go spend six months in a real company to know exactly how it really worked. I wanted to do that but he said: “No, this is not what I’m looking for.” And as you can notice in the film it’s really fiction, because sometimes you don’t really know in what time you are. Some locations look like the 60s, sometimes you feel that you are in modern times. It’s not naturalistic, it’s not a documentary. Even the way we speak is very, very ‘written’.

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JourneyOn for one-stop travel information

Children from West Hove Junior School taking part in the launch of the new look JourneyOn website

Check out the JourneyOn website (www.journeyon.co.uk) for everything you need to know about travel in Brighton and Hove.

The website was launched by Brighton and Hove City Council last year and has evolved to become the city’s ‘one-stop shop’ for travel advice and information.

“The site calculates the potential environmental impact of your journey”

Now with real time bus, roadwork and traffic information, the JourneyOn site is packed with even more travel advice and a new look, providing everything you need in order to plan your journey around the city. Read the rest of this article »

Good looking men from Brighton have found a way to boost their wages in a time of economic uncertainty – by becoming naked waiters.

Light-hearted party company Butlers in the Buff held a recruiting day at Drakes Hotel last week and found half a dozen new models to take onto their books.

Spokeswoman Iona McCaie, who had a peek at each applicant’s chest as part of the interview process said, at first look, all the men seemed suitable for the firm.

Butlers in the Buff hires out its models to wait on men and women at parties, wearing only a tiny apron. Many of their bookings are upmarket hen parties – they were recently hired for the hen party of Autumn Kelly, who married Peter Phillips, the Queen’s eldest grandson. Read the rest of this article »