This weekend, the third Hackney Wicked festival takes over the Olympic buffer zone of Hackney Wick. This proud local community of makers and shapers – the latest figures peg the number of active artist studios in The Wick at 624 – will turn their square …
Denise Lewis and Jonathan Edwards. © Brian Griffin – National Portrait Gallery/BT Road to 2012 Project As part of the 1000 day countdown to the 2008 games, Beijing PR bods invited locally based foreign residents to go on a long-distance jog around a Lake. Facing …
Not-so-long-ago poo-pooed as onanistic-escapism for Black Canary completists and cast as pre-video-game cultural ne’er-do-well, comics have grown up and are kicking-ass. Quietly and colourfully, the graphic novel is marching through an enduring golden age that’s showing off a depth to its canon that says as …
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