Arts Book REVIEW: The Game Weavers: Rebecca Zahabi Good fun, thumping narrative tensions and a surprisingly tender examination of new young queer relationships in a fantasy sci-fi setting. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts Fran Lebowitz: Pretend It’s A City Fran Lebowitz is one of the great New Yorkers. She insists that it’s the only place she could live. By Alex Klineberg • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: David Bedella @ The Crazy Coqs Brian Butler marvels at a streamed cabaret from West End star David Bedella By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts Book Review: The Times I knew I was gay – Eleanor Crewes The Times I Knew I Was Gay reminds us that sexuality is not often determined by falling in love with others, but by coming to terms with oneself By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts Book Review: The BIG LGBTQ+ book of activities by Amie Taylor The book has a series of tales with characters that have an LGBTQI identity all illustrated by Liza Stevens who has an effervesce bounce to their artwork, and children love to copy. Each story is then followed by quizzes, worksheets, word-searches, drama activities, colouring and writing activities. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts Book Review: She’s my Dad by Sarah Savage Local author Sarah Savage has produced a brightly illustrated book for children aged 3 – 7 which engages in an effective and gentle way in an early years setting of family diversity. By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts Book Review: David Hockney: A Life by Catherine Cusset Cussets’ book is a homage to an artist adored, with the fiction and fact blended together, like canvas and paint to give an overwhelming sensation of complete narrative, capturing an element of movement which unfolds into a wider understanding of this charming man and his charmed life. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Right Beside You – films from New Queer Visions Brian Butler finds companionship is the recurrent theme in five new queer films By Brian Butler • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Books: The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper The book explores how living in the full gaze of the internet impacts on mental health and also how much creative energy, presentation and touched up fakery goes into presenting the ‘everyday life’ as content for the ravenous appetite of Reality TV or social media platforms. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts Book Review: ‘The Little Book of Pride’ by Lewis Laney The Little Book of Pride proves that size definitely doesn’t matter by squeezing everything you need to know about Pride into 144 pages. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Books: United QueerDom by Dan Glass Although many people believe queers are now free and should assimilate into a wider heteronormative world, Dan Glass shows that the fight is far from over. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Books – Genre Fluid by Dan Webber REVIEW: Books – Genre Fluid by Dan Webber By Eric Page • 2 min read
