S&C reviewer Emily Priest reports on the annual kite festival and finds this is one hobby that goes straight over her head. This year was the 26th anniversary of Portsmouth’s International Kite festival which brings colour [… read more ]
S&C’s resident reviewer and reporter Emily Priest gives her verdict on the first ever Portsea Carnival, organised by the local community. Portsea has never had its own carnival before but on the 12th August this changed, thanks [… read more ]
Madeleine Hagan is a student at the University of Portsmouth studying Creative and Media Writing. Originally from North Carolina, she likes telling stories about her experiences as an international student on her blog The Salt [… read more ]
Portsmouth visual satirist and S&C regular Mike Gumbrell creates a new take on an old classic with a board game based on Portsmouth Politics, Portsmouthonopoly.
Late autumn in Lavender Hill and I perched in her kitchen, a Frigidaire to my back. Florrie Mac rolled the fruit with her back to the Belling. Pigeons flirted on rooftops, and the distance between [… read more ]
In the second part of her Beginners’ Guide to Portsmouth – originally published on her blog – Nica Tomasiello introduces newcomers to Portsmouth’s unique climate and cultural scene. #5: How do you find the general [… read more ]
A year ago Yordana Shopova relocated from Bulgaria to Portsmouth… and she’s been loving every minute of it since. The first thing that struck me about Portsmouth was its warm weather. Coming from Bulgaria, my [… read more ]
Daniel Malice recalls how his eyes were opened to the world after becoming a student at the University of Portsmouth. Growing up next to the sea in Norfolk, I assumed all coastal towns around England [… read more ]
S&C’s culture correspondent sees signs of God in Southsea and gets pondering…. I am trying to find that in-between space, somewhere between Richard Dawkins and Isis; between Page 3 and the niqab. But all [… read more ]
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