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Brighton’s unique arts and media event brings together the creative community with special guest interviews. This month Briggie Smales will introduce legendary television comedy producer John Howard Davies, best known as a director and producer of seminal British sitcoms including Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Fawlty Towers, The Goodies and The Fall And Rise of Reginald Perrin. He’ll be joined by leading music arranger Sally Herbert, who has worked with the cream of British music, providing arrangements for Florence And The Machine, Radiohead, Robbie Williams, Travis, Kylie, Manic Street Preachers and Muse. There will also be a special performance from Brighton based songwriter, Paul Diello, described as a cross between Antony &
The Johnsons and Eddie Izzard.
The Space, The Basement, Thursday 4 March, 7.30pm, £6, tickets available from www.thespace.me.uk

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Experts in etiquette, Butlers In The Buff are searching for Brighton’s most gorgeous men. Are you good looking, charming and sociable? After a new and exciting job? Scouts will be scouring the streets and bars looking for the best men in Brighton. If this sounds like you, then you can join Butlers In The Buff, the original and best male order butler service. Auditions take place on Tuesday 9 March at Madame Geisha on East Street, Brighton. Read the rest of this article »

Tim Richardson snaps the launches of Brighton Festival and documentary celebration SEE

Brian Eno is in the building!

Brighton Festival 2010 launched last Wednesday with an event at the Dome Concert Hall that included a speech by this year’s guest curator, the mighty Brian Eno, and a surprise ‘flash mob’ of disco dancers organised by acclaimed local choreographer Ben Wright.

SEE and be seen

SEE: The Brighton Documentary Film Festival kicked off its fifth year with a launch party at Madame Geisha on 18 February, introducing a programme that included talks by big name filmmakers such as Bafta-winner Louis Theroux and Sussex’s own Nick Broomfield. The festival is organised and curated by back2back productions ltd.

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Miss Jones pushed aside the library books, lifted herself onto the desk, tied back her hair and put on her spectacles. ‘‘But Miss Jones, you’re beautiful….’’ Oh yes, we know it’s a slightly less conventional version of the story but with frames as smart and sexy as these, no one will want to look less than bookish.
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