BOOK REVIEW: Beijing Comrades: Bei Tong. The book follows the passionate and hugely engaging gay love story of Handong and Lan Yu and is placed in the upheaval of a China bursting out of the repressions of Mao and into a modern state.
REVIEW: The Science of Instruments: Museum Lab Richard Earle, a Lewes-based oboe maker and player had endless fascinating throw away facts which would have taken a whole lecture just to tease apart and explore on their own and his charming modest and amusing tone kept the more arcane and technical sides of the talk interesting for a non player.
PREVIEW: Brighton Early Music Festival: Nature & Science BREMF 2016: Nature & Science OBSERVATION, DISCOVERY, INVENTION, CREATION 28th October to 13th November Brighton Early Music Festival, known as BREMF, is a world leader in pioneering dynamic events which make music from the last 1000 years and from many parts of the world, relevant and exciting to mo
BOOK REVIEW: THE GOOD SON: Paul McVeigh Profound, funny, gripping and this book touched me moving deftly beyond life in Northern Ireland and getting to grips, with a confident prose with the bigger issues in growing up and out.
REVIEW: BRIGHTON ART FAIR & MADE BRIGHTON: DOME BRIGHTON ART FAIR & MADE BRIGHTON Brighton Dome – The Corn Exchange Usually two separate events but due to the refurbishment of the Dome they are joined and skipping hand in hand though the weekend with a huge array of arts, crafts and plenty of artists and delightful things to see and buy. Brighton
BOOK REVIEW: Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It Big, burly, lascivious, and soft around the edges: welcome to this hyper-masculine world. Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It is an in-depth introduction to nine of the most exciting comic artists making work for a gay male audience in Japan.
BOOK REVIEW: First tie your camel, then trust in god: Chivvis Moore Not an easy read, but not an easy subject, Moore gives us her own unfazed clarity of view and guides us into the heart of the community and the way it embraces and occasionally judges her, it’s been a long time since I’ve read a narrative with such force that has made me think so hard about received