Editor’s Pick in Film – Restless

Film Review: Restless Cast & Credits Directed by Gus Van Sant; written by Jason Lew; music by Danny Elfan; with Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska, Ryo Kase, Shuyler Fisk and Jane Adams. Rated PG-13 for thematic and sensual elements. Running time: 91 minutes This unconventional film from Gus Van Sant (which...

Editor’s Pick in Film – Like Crazy

Like Crazy Cast & Credits Directed by Drake Doremus; written by Doremus and Ben York Jones; with Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlie Bewley, Oliver Muirhead and Alex Kington. Rated PG-13 for content and strong language. Running time: 90 minutes.   Anton Yelchin who first hit...

Book Review: The Bees

Reviewed by Jacob Silkstone Carol Ann Duffy, The Bees Picador, 2011, 84 pages (Hardback) ISBN: 978-0-330-44244-2 Carol Ann Duffy has made an admirable start to her term as Poet Laureate, embracing her role as public poet with far more enthusiasm than most of her predecessors were able to muster (Wordsworth...

Spotlight Artist – Amira Farooq

What’s a day in your life like? A day in my life is never the same. I just live and when inspiration comes I paint. Your work in five words. Colorful, blunt, thought provoking, conceptual, unique. You’ve dabbled in many different things over the years. When did you decide you were going to be a painter...

Spotlight Artist – Sonja Dimovska

 Have you always known you wanted to be a graphic artist? Graphic art is a medium I most frequently use to express myself. I have a feeling as if I have been doing that for my whole life. I have always found graphics as something very close to me, since my early beginnings. An unpremeditated choice of mine...

Book Review: In Defence of Adultery

Reviewed by Jacob Silkstone Julia Copus, In Defence of Adultery (Bloodaxe, 2003) ISBN: 1-85224-607-3 The American poet Jennifer Grotz once said that ‘Poetry is philosophy’s twin sister. The one that wears make-up.’ More generously, it’s possible to imagine poetry as a trendier older sister to...