Richard Warburton sees three Chekhov plays in one day at the Chichester Festival Theatre and discovers exactly how much culture a man can take. I should have got sponsorship for this. Three plays, one day – [… read more ]
Aidan Williams explores the views of local politicians on drugs and prohibition, using GovFaces – a new social media platform for political discussion. Portsmouth City Council pledged this year to ban all legal highs from the city [… read more ]
Christine Lawrence continues her exploration of Portsmouth’s cultural and cafe life in a review of Albert Road’s Home Coffee, taking a trip to Burundi in just one sip. Over the past few years several new coffee shops [… read more ]
Star & Crescent film reviewer Zach Lockwood provides an exclusive guide to this week’s screenings at No. 6 cinema. Thursday, 5th November: Listen To Me Marlon With exclusive access to his hitherto private personal archive, including [… read more ]
Richard Peirce reports on the delivery to Portsmouth South MP Flick Drummond of a 3 million-strong European petition rejecting the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The sky was overcast and the autumn light fading as a group [… read more ]
by Jon Crout Fear was a daily watchword on this troubled island. This evening those present on its northern edge bore witness to an unholy bleakness. The surface of the water danced in macabre fashion [… read more ]
Portsmouth activist Rosy Bremer objects to the government’s increasing disdain for human rights. At long last I’ve got it; I have the perfect solution to the anger-causing problem that we all have human rights. So annoying isn’t [… read more ]
Tessa Ditner examines Portsmouth’s credentials as the historic corsetry capital of the world. Corsets. A frivolous topic isn’t it? It’s like writing about the politics of Dairy Milks. Yet corsetry from the point of view [… read more ]
Star & Crescent film reviewer Zach Lockwood provides an exclusive guide to this week’s screenings at No. 6 cinema. Thursday, 29th October: La Regle Du Jeu (PG) The illusive French film La Regle Du Jeu (The [… read more ]
Sam Ward takes a satirical swipe at new proposals to sponsor our defining landmark. The news broke the way it does these days. Cut-up and quoted, trickling out from the source, repurposed and ridiculed, a [… read more ]
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