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Month: September 2017

Fiction

Portsmouth Writers’ Season: William Sutton

8th September 2017

S&C presents a short story from Portsmouth author William Sutton, new novel, featuring Victorian detective Sergeant Campbell Lawless, known as Watchman because he was formerly a watchmaker’s apprentice. This short story coincides with the launch [… read more ]

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Reviews

Victorious: Great Music, Expensive Food and My Giant Blue Vagina

8th September 2017

S&C contributor, Andrew Larder, reviews the music and experience of last week’s Victorious Festival and offers a somewhat embarrassed apology to musician Marley Blandford. ‘One day like this a year would see me right’ sang [… read more ]

Culture

Victorious Festival 2017 Review: Part 3, The End

8th September 2017

The final part of Emily Priest’s three part Victorious review comes to a climax full of glitter and grit on a chaotic last day. Catch Part 1 and Part 2 to capture Emily’s full festival [… read more ]

Reviews

The Southsea Food Tour – Kassia

7th September 2017

Rapidly gaining weight each week so you don’t have to, food critic Emily Priest, brings you the best places to eat in Southsea on her weekly Food Tour. This week she finds an authentic, Indian establishment [… read more ]

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Victorious Festival 2017 Review: Part 2, The Middle

6th September 2017

Emily Priest watches more local bands and explores the rest of the Victorious festival in part two of her three part review. Read part 1 here. On the Saturday morning of Victorious festival, I groggily [… read more ]

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Social Issues

How Playing Dungeons and Dragons in Portsmouth Slayed My Anxiety

5th September 2017

Depression and anxiety are at record levels in the UK. Claire Pearse explores the potential of role-playing games to boost confidence and self-esteem amongst young adults. Imagine you’re in the depths of an enchanted forest; [… read more ]

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Reviews

Victorious Festival 2017 Review: Part 1, The Beginning

4th September 2017

Emily Priest visits her first ever Victorious festival and tells all, good and bad, in a three part series about Portsmouth’s biggest event, starting with Friday night Madness. Victorious, always on the last bank holiday of [… read more ]

Fiction

Critical Hob-Nobality and Ethno-Dishcourses of Snack Consumption

1st September 2017

S&C proudly presents the transcript of last week’s special guest lecture by Professor Ethel Tulala-Smith to the Faculty of Post-transcultural Trans-post-culturalism at the Southsea Institute of Creatindustry Knowledgehow (SICK). There is a detail. A marginal [… read more ]

Memoir

Pompey Bar Room Banter 3: Mr Difannyous, Part II

1st September 2017

John Oke Bartlett continues his tale from Ted, a regular at The Rocket, Cosham, previously the Railway Hotel. If you missed Part I of Ted’s tale, catch up here.  Time for a pint. Lager or [… read more ]

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Planetbuilding Blues: A Letter to My Dead Parents

24th September 2026

Writer and planetary modeller David Angus recalls recent global and personal events in a letter to his dead parents, from anti-vaxxers to flying a Spitfire. By now Jill Mole should be with you and Arthur [… read more ]

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Green Open Homes Week: How Portsmouth Residents are Taking on the Energy Crisis

26th June 2026

Energy prices are a growing concern – but for some, getting ahead of the crisis has paid off. Local residents have been opening their doors to Nicholas Sebley of Portsmouth Climate Action to reveal how they [… read more ]

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