Community News Mayor cycles from Paris to Brighton for his charities The Mayor of Brighton & Hove plus 30 cyclists crosses the finish line in New Road at a special charity afternoon hosted by Brighton Fringe this week, following a four-day charity cycle ride from Paris. Mayor Pete West was greeted by a military band, Brighton Fringe cabaret artists, ceilidh dancers, By Besi • 1 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE PREVIEW: Blooming @Sweet Dukebox Practicing Joy on the Road to Hell and Back. Author, Patrick Sandford asked 100 people “How do you know when you are happy?” The answers – provocative, kaleidoscopic, astonishing – jump-started this crazy, optimistic-in-spite-of-everything show. By Contributor • 2 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FESTIVAL REVIEW: Endings @Old Market Saulwick come across like a retro-modern Madame Blavatsky using the vintage recording machinery and snatches of interviews to express her theosophical investigations, the temporary and temporal mashing up to form the present, the past and gone giving us creative material for the now, the reflection By Eric Page • 4 min read
Comedy BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Good Grief: Stories at 207 West 88th Bruna is an Italian is an Italian woman of a certain age with hilariously broken English – the building superintendent of a New York apartment block. We first see her in the confessional saying to the unseen priest – “God he is pissed off with me”. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
St. Petersburg, Florida In The South IGLTA hosts most globally diverse convention to date The International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association’s (ILGTA) 34th Annual Global Convention, brought together more than 400 tourism professionals representing 36 countries to the Vinoy Renaissance St. Petersburg Resort & Golf Club for networking and education from May 4-6. By Besi • 2 min read
In The South Conservatives choose former LGBT+ activist to fight Brighton Pavilion Conservatives choose Emma Warman to fight the Brighton Pavilion seat. Originally from West Wales, Emma’s father is an electrician and her mother worked for the NHS. She attended a comprehensive school in Wales before studying at the University in Reading and becoming a primary school governor. She l By Gary Hart • 1 min read
In The South Irish police drop Stephen Fry blasphemy investigation The police service in the Republic of Ireland decides to drop its investigation into Stephen Fry, over allegations he blasphemed in an interview on Irish channel RTE over two years ago. By Besi • 2 min read
In The South Hove man sentenced for assaulting Transgender woman Philip Poole, 41, of Shirley Street, Hove pleaded guilty to common assault and intentional harassment, alarm and distress when he appeared at Brighton Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, April 26. By Besi • 2 min read
In The South Tel Aviv to host the world’s first bisexuality themed Pride parade The City of Tel Aviv-Yafo has announced the theme of the 2017 LGBT+ Pride Parade will be Bisexuality Visibility, making it the first large-scale pride parade in the world to ever celebrate bisexuality as its theme. By Besi • 1 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Fannytasticals @Sweet Dukebox If you are a man attending this show on your own – beware – for most of its duration you will be quite justifiably the target of sharp, witty and very crude humour from this 6-woman ensemble. By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Super Hamlet 64: Parody DLC @ Warren 2 Day is an energetic and engaging performer; he is charming and fun and clowns with a furious passion, helped along by an ability to contort his plastic features and sinuous lanky frame in many ways at once. His ability to perform to extreme is aided by the well thought out video mapping and under-st By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BRIGHTON FRINGE REVIEW: Help! I Think I Might Be Fabulous @Brighton Spiegeltent: Bosco It’s been quite a while since I’ve failed to connect with a show as deeply as I failed to connect with this one – it might as well have been performed in Lithuanian so little did I appreciate what was happening on stage. By Michael Hootman • 1 min read
