Sources: Portsmouth News: Tory boss rejects claim of ‘financial incompetence’ Portsmouth City Council: Current children’s centre provision (9 centres and 16 satellite sites) Portsmouth City Council: Proposed new structure (6 hubs and 9 satellite sites) [… read more ]
Jackson Davies takes some poetic license with a couple of images from the S&C vaults. Want to get in on the photoshop action? We’re looking for local talent to supply us with funny images, articles, [… read more ]
Local author David E. Gates finds a couple of local spelling mistakes as he wanders the streets of Portsmouth with his camera. A warning to the unaurthorised visitor One of the best-named cafes in the [… 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 ]
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 ]
As part of Portsmouth University’s recent This Is The Week That Is festival, Dr Van Norris hailed filmmaker Ralph Bakshi as one of the great – yet underrated – satirists of our time. We present [… read more ]
In the first of an insightful two-part series, University of Portsmouth senior lecturer and animation expert Van Norris assesses Fritz the Cat director Ralph Bakshi’s contribution to modern satire. When asked to give a talk [… read more ]
By Jon Crout. It is 1992. It is Fudger’s birthday, and we are sat in his shed, hiding from his mum. She’s got the hump because he re-enacted Anderton’s goal at Highbury in her lounge [… read more ]
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