The Black Cap’s shock closure inspired a large, rousing protest with a range of voices defending the venue’s importance
So what if you didn’t like Looking or the Joiners Arms? Solidarity isn’t a matter of taste
Screw your consumer preference. It’s not about whether you like pistachio. It’s about whether you want to live in a world without ice cream.
Review: Sing For Your Life, the roadkill taxidermy cabaret musical
Roadkill taxidermy cabaret musical Sing For Your Life is uncanny, grotesque and sometimes charming – a rousing howl of injustice that still has its problems, including shortchanging the cabaret form
2015 set to be year of the fightback as squatters reopen iconic 12 Bar
2014 left us reeling as independent London venues dropped like flies. But the reopening of Denmark Street’s 12 Bar heralds 2015 as the year we fight back.
Not Television’s top 10 posts of 2014
A round-up of 10 favourite blog posts from Not Television’s first year, 2014, on subjects including Mat Fraser, Alternative Miss World, Leake St graffiti tunnel and the threat of luxury redevelopment
Time to fight back: six ways to defend London culture from property development
London’s independent cultural spaces are dropping like flies. But we can start to fight back if we come together to inform, inspire and take action
Articles about Duckie in Sitges and Forest Fringe in the Guardian
Just a quick heads up on a couple of recent articles… I’ve written my first blog post for the Duckie website as Dr Duckie – I’ll be posting occasional pieces there reporting back on my PhD research in a more casual, less footnoted way than academic protocols allow. This first dispatch is a report on […]
DVD review: In Their Room by Travis Mathews
Travis Mathews’s three sexy documentaries about men at home in San Francisco, Berlin and London add up to a snapshot of queer life today
Death by luxury: the threat to culture and the power of coffins in the street
Lately, it seems that barely a week goes by without news of one of London’s seminal underground, alternative or queer venues being closed or threatened with closure…
Five events to catch at Fringe! 2014
Since first popping up to supplement the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival’s shorter-than-usual 2011 edition, the Fringe! Queer Art & Film Fest has comfortably established itself as a major event in its own right, bringing an eclectic, leftfield flavour to the capital’s queer screen culture that goes way beyond showcasing new features and shorts to include DIY […]
