From the Editor: Tuesday 10th January

Brighton is inescapably brilliant: a luminous centre of culture, food, nightlife, shopping and other tantalising prospects. As the editor of Latest 7 & Homes, I’m happy to be helping you pick what to go to, where to live, telling you what’s going on in the city and lots of other bits.

I’m a culture geek and have had the pleasure of seeing hundreds of shows. I derive real joy (hard to imagine by some who might see me as a bemused, contemplative sort of person but I promise there is joy in there) from sharing good things with good people.

A great night out is something to savour: I vividly recall my first ever opera (Britten’s elegiac Turn of The Screw at Glyndebourne), some startling dance at the Dome (Hofesh Shechter’s barbarians), my first ever gig (Madness at the Brighton Centre), a Back To The Future marathon at the Duke of York’s for my birthday (quick snooze allowed in the second one), thoughtful character-driven sci-fi (Pioneer at the Old Market), Spymonkey’s sublime anarchy at Theatre Royal (The Complete Deaths), Animal Collective playing Merriweather Post Pavilion at Concorde 2, and the honed comedy of Richard Herring at Komedia. I could go on and on and on and on but I shan’t.

The point of the self-indulgent, nostalgic list above is to emphasise the breadth of things on offer in and around Brighton, and at generous prices too. Tickets for all of the shows above were affordable (Glyndebourne was £20 for example) and I’m keen to highlight good value for money when I can. The arts shouldn’t be considered expensive, esoteric, distant, lofty, pompous or aloof. There is something for everyone here and we’re going to help you find what that something is.