• Arts

    Review: MAKE 3rd Annual Kingston Halloween ’Spooktacular’ Night Market

    One cold and crisp autumn evening, I trekked down to Kingston-on-Thames to enjoy a Halloween-themed Make Night Market. Although the crisp night soon turned damp, my enthusiasm wasn’t dampened once I walked into the market brimming with life, delicious smells, and costumes aplenty. Alistair Turnham, the bearded, bespectacled and extremely…

  • Arts

    National Trust: One and All Exhibition at Somerset House

    One and All is a voyage through sight, sound and sea, with three leading artists – Martyn Ware, Owen Sheers and Tania Kovats – working with 3D sound, poetry and art. Set within a boardwalk, their specially created pieces recognize and celebrate our powerful and personal connection with the beautiful British…

  • Arts,  Entertainment,  Food

    TEDx Hackney – FEED ‘The Poetics of Food’

    There is a profound synergy between science, engineering, art, design, business and food. Not conventionally a list you would see together yet we are beginning to understand the necessary cocktail of disciplines that are required to change the way we view, produce, consume and connect with food. The best way…

  • Arts,  Entertainment

    Review of Hangmen at Royal Court

    In Bruges writer/ director Martin McDonagh brings his viciously dark comedy Hangmen to Royal Court. The story takes place on the day hanging is abolished at a gloomy Oldham pub run by England’s second best hangman Harry Wade, played with Northern bravado by the excellent David Morrisey. The plot becomes…