I don’t have much spare time and I don’t really even have much of a social life these days. There is a reason for this and it’s that I have […]
The King of Controversy: George Carlin
“I’ve got a personal trainer, a personal shopper, a personal assistant and a personal agenda. You can’t shut me up. You can’t dumb me down because I’m tireless and I’m […]
Remote and Undisturbed
Sheffield General Cemetery, nestled by Ecclesall Road, opened in 1836 as one of Britain’s first commercial cemeteries. Playing host to many famous Sheffield residents, it is now one of the […]
Advice for Artists: Part 8
It’d be naïve to think that being an artist is an easy career. The demanding workload, the struggle to make a name for yourself and always running out supplies, it […]
We’re Not Going Back to Red City
18 February / Sheffield Traders & Labour Club Standing on Sky Edge under a heavy twilight is a bit like perching on a giant tongue, gazing out at an array […]
The Late, Great Robin Williams
“If women ran the world we wouldn’t have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.” Last year, I wrote a short article about the sadness I felt after the passing […]
Salena Godden’s Springfield Rd
Written in elegant and evocative prose, Salena Godden’s memoir could easily have veered into self pitying, misery memoir but her eternal optimism takes her story firmly out of that ground […]
Passion and Innovation
In her article ‘The Fading Art’, published in November’s Now Then, Anna Pintus approached “the conflict between nostalgia and progression” in cinema. She began and ended on the point that, […]