Star & Crescent – News for and by the people of Portsmouth

Couldn’t Care More: Young Adult Carers in Portsmouth

16th October 2019

The Young Carers organisation has long been a staple of fundraising telethons like Comic Relief. Alex Doherty recounts her positive experiences working with the Portsmouth branch. Like millions of others, I grew up watching clips [… read more ]

The Problem with Portsmouth City Council’s Clean Air Zone Plan

27th September 2019

Portsmouth City Council passed a proposal this week responding to a government instruction to consider charging some vehicles in a clean air zone to improve air quality in the shortest time. Local air quality campaigner [… read more ]

The Day the World Stood Up to Climate Change

25th September 2019

Last Friday, from Portsmouth to Wakiso, Uganda, to Hobart, Tasmania to New York and Washington, DC, and in 159 other countries on all 7 continents, 4 million people protested against the catastrophe of climate change. [… read more ]

Hampshire firefighter honoured at film screening

28th September 2019

Last night saw the Portsmouth screening of The Firefighters’ Story: 100 years of the Fire Brigades Union commemorating 21 firefighters who lost their lives in the line of duty during WW2 and honouring another Hampshire firefighter, [... read more ]
Why is Google Digital Garage coming to Portsmouth?

26th September 2019

The Good Things Foundation and Google have teamed up to bring Portsmouth residents the Google Digital Garage which will provide free training courses for the people of Portsmouth, contributing editor Paris Ali-Pilling reports. The Good [... read more ]

Cursed City, Dark Tide: My Journey into the Unknown

14th October 2019

What is a transmedia story? People keep asking novelist and S&C regular Christine Lawrence this and it’s taken her a while to work out the answer. She shares it with us now. After obtaining Arts [… read more ]

An American in Pompey: Wait, I Have an Accent?

8th October 2019

Writer and music blogger Doug Hamilton was born and raised in America, moved to Canada in the early 2000s, and recently relocated again with his British-born spouse to Portsmouth. This is part nine of his ongoing series, with [… read more ]

Femmes Fatale and Yellow Journalists at No6 Cinema

25th September 2019

A 70-year-old cult film classic about a dodgy American newspaperman, starring a young Kirk Douglas, is being shown at Portsmouth’s independent No6 Cinema on Saturday October 5 at 7pm. Peter Edwards reports. This website’s co-founder [… read more ]

Review: Groundlings Theatre’s Rose Playhouse Performances are ‘Intimate and Exciting’

22nd July 2019

Purbrook resident Rosalie Cuthbert reviews Groundlings Theatre’s current productions of two Shakespeare classics, featuring a replica of The Rose Playhouse, where Romeo & Juliet was first performed. When Richard Stride had the idea of recreating [… read more ]

REVIEW: Nicotine and Napalm – Love, Loss and Bad Romance

1st July 2019

S&C Community Reporter Rosy Bremer reviews Emily Priest’s first published volume of poems and prose, which takes a fresh, young look at age-old themes of love, loss and bad romance. Emily’s book launches in Portsmouth [… read more ]

Review: ‘Outstanding’ Czech Mates with the BSO

28th May 2019

Paul Valentine reviews the recent performance of Czech Mates by the BSO, conducted by Kiril Karabits, piano by Sunwook Kim, and Amyn Merchant, Leader. The performance comprised Suk Scherzo, Fantastique and Dvorak’s Piano Concerto and Symphony [… read more ]