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Will Harris gets some; in Dominos Pizza

In hindsight, I think there are three reasons I find myself being snogged by a chav in the Coventry branch of Dominos Pizza. First, I’m still in those grey, post break up doldrums and am willing to consider anything that might shock me back to glorious technicolor. Second, I watched West Side Story last night and my brain is now full of romanticised notions about men from the wrong side of the tracks. And third, I’ve had five pints of festival-strength pear cider. Plus, in my defence, he does have the element of surprise. Read the rest of this article »

Tasha Dhanraj rejects the celluloid rites of passage

Idon’t like films. I’m aware that most people would say that I can’t say I don’t like all films because there are many different genres. But I can. Films are long. I am short. There was never going to be a happy relationship between us. Read the rest of this article »

Ruby Grimshaw on the lost art of the court logger

Last year I was told I was part of a threatened species. Now I am extinct. I was a logger. (No, not one of those hunky Canadians with massive thigh muscles. I hope they are not threatened.) Think more court scene in an old black and white movie. Below the judge sits a woman with horn-rimmed spectacles, hair in a bun, typing frantically. That is the logger. Read the rest of this article »

Brighton historian Nicholas Antram’s talk made a passionate case for celebrating four local Brighton architects who created our urban environment. Edmund Scott, whose St. Bartholomew’s Church was declared by Pevsner to be one of the most outstanding examples of ecclesiastical architecture in the world; Thomas Lainson and his two sons as witnessed by the Brighton Synagogue, the Italianate style of the Sillwood Road terraces and the picturesque Royal Alexandra Hospital: Clayton and Black, represented by the swirling turrets of Gwdyr Mansions in Hove; finally, Thomas Simpson and Sons whose legacy remains visible in Brighton schools and public buildings Instructive and entertaining: terrific stuff.
Old Market, 3 March
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Louise Schweitzer