After 20 years this festival still breaks new ground with documentaries, shock horror shorts and features which startle all done by up and coming film makers mostly in London and Europe although there is also an international section. The point of a festival like this – which is also free mostly is to promo new…
A perfectly atmospheric venue for this interdisciplinary group art exhibition and a lovely cool temperature when you get there pervades the 100 x Monna at The Crypt St Pancras. And where better than a church crypt to host a collection of modern artworks with a purely religious theme albeit some artists have borrowed humour…
Ankur Panwar 25, convicted of murder and other offences at a special court in Mumbai, India, has been sentenced to death, undersections 302 (murder) and 326B (Voluntarily throwing acid) of the Indian Penal Code, for a fatal acid attack on Preeti Rathi 23, at Bandra, a busy railway station three years ago, when she got…
Amit Agrawal of Amazon India plans to invest in an Indian online food delivery startup Swiggy after several discussions with the Bengaluru-based firm over the past three months. Swiggy also attracted Alibaba-backed Chinese food delivery venture Ele.me. Siggy, valued at $200m, founded by Sriharsha Majety, CEO, along with Rahul Jaimini and Nandan Reddy. It competes with…
Why would someone give up his job as a rugby journalist for Sky Sport? Well in this case Ben Hampshire 24 has become a campus pastor in a South Yorkshire church. Legacy Church has a network providing services in Edlington, Skellow and Swansea as well as in Barnsley Rotherham and Doncaster. Having started this month,…
When Elizabeth Flynn found life as an actress didn’t quite float her boat she moved into a career as a mortuary assistant. Through a friend she found this job paid the bills and gave her leeway to re-write her first novel and to write some more. They all have a theme of murder with Angela…
Michael Douglas’s celebrated actress wife Catherine Zeta-Jones spent three years in Drury Lane when she started as an understudy then took over a lead role in 42nd Street. Douglas would love to work in the same theatre or another London theatre and says “One of the things about getting older and a cancer survivor is…
This year is the 25th anniversary of Freddie Mercury’s death. Freddie was originally named Farrokh Bulsara, and was the lead singer of the fabulous inimitable group “Queen”. The family came to Essex from Zanzibar to 22 Gladstone Avenue, Feltham, Middlesex in 1964 when Freddie was just 17. He met Brian May – guitarist and Drummer Taylor…
Top US Actor Robert de Niro has said the mostly positive reaction to his proposed new hotel in London “makes perfect sense”. He already owns a hotel in New York. Some misgivings have been aired about interference with noise to productions such as The Lion King at The Lyceum but generally optimism prevails. The new…
200 near naked runners jogged in a ‘streak’ -which is the same name appertaining to a group of tigers to raise money to protect the big cats. They raised £25,000 for the Zoological Society of London’s conservation work with tigers. They ran through the animal sanctuary of Regents Park . In its fourth year, the…