Roving reviewer Emily Priest explores Southsea’s brand new slice of ‘hipster paradise’, once a rough and ready local. Before it was The Southsea Village, 81 Palmerston Road used to be Owen’s. I never went there [… read more ]
S&C’s roving gastronome Emily Priest finds a gem on Winter Road this week for meat eaters and vegetarians alike. Cinnamon Café rests on Winter Road and despite despising cinnamon, I cannot hate this lovely little eatery. A [… read more ]
S&C’s food critic Emily Priest finds her new favourite restaurant amid the colour and chaos of Albert Road. Sakura, situated on Albert Road, was established in 2009 as the first Japanese restaurant in Portsmouth. Now, in [… read more ]
Portsmouth’s DVMISSION is in its twelth year and is the longest running 48-hour film challenge in the UK. But this is no ordinary film festival… DVMISSION is an annual, not for profit and independent film [… read more ]
S&C contributor and Coordinator of Portsmouth Writers’ Hub, Tessa Ditner, talks to local writers following recent news that Blackwell’s Portsmouth may close on 22nd December. I run the Portsmouth Writers’ Hub, a community of writers [… read more ]
Following recent news of the proposal to close Blackwell’s Portsmouth, and confirmation from the bookshop’s team last week that ‘negotiations are ongoing’ between Blackwell and the University of Portsmouth, local writer Tom Harris highlights the [… read more ]
Reviewer and student Emily Priest investigates the recent announcement that Blackwell and the University of Portsmouth have decided to shut Blackwell’s Portsmouth. Additional reporting by Sarah Cheverton. Following a period of commercial struggle, the University [… read more ]
Not all stops on The Southsea Food Tour are positive as Emily Priest finds out this week at Rancho Steak House. I have always wanted to go to Rancho Steak House. Not only have many [… read more ]
Following recent news that Portsmouth Blackwell’s is under threat, local writer Will Sutton explains the huge difference the team there have made to his own career and to the wider writing community in the city. [… read more ]
Local writer Damon Wakes is working with online publishers Unbound to crowdfund the publication of his new book Ten Little Astronauts, a re-imagining of an Agatha Christie classic. Here, Damon shares the inspiration for his [… read more ]
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