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A Love Letter to Almodóvar: Why the Spanish Filmmaker Is Still King

Ben Mirza | Posted 28.11.2012 | Home
Read More: European Cinema, Film, Directing, Culture, World Cinema, Pedro Almodovar, Producing, Spanish Cinema, Popular Culture, Reviews, Ukfilm, UK Reviews, Home News
Ben Mirza

With creativity and humour Almodóvar continues to surpass expectations, creating provocative and thought provoking films that dually entertain and intrigue us. He will forever be a paragon of world cinema.

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Dancing in the Dark: The New Craze Shufflin' Feet in Dalston

Holly Alsop | Posted 20.03.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Dancing, Dance Groups, Lifestyle, New Trends, New Exercise, Exercise, No Lights, London Dance, Fitness and Exercise, Dance, Popular Culture, No Lycra, Blondie, UK Lifestyle News
Holly Alsop

It is mid-January 2012 and many of us have made the obvious realisation that our New Year's resolution to 'get fit and lose those Christmas puddings is just plain not going to happen. Well, not without that ludicrously expensive gym membership you convinced yourself you should invest in on the first day back from holiday and most likely will stop using in the next few weeks.

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Nazi Drinking Games and the Insatiable Thirst for Taboo Breaking

Tom J Wilson | Posted 19.03.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Taboo, Popular Culture, Nazis, London School of Economics, UK Universities, UK Politics News
Tom J Wilson

It sounds surreal to say it but Nazi themed drinking games seem to have been getting a lot of press coverage of late. First there was the news of how ...

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Is Culture the New Class?

Loma-Ann Marks | Posted 08.01.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Popular-Culture, UK Entertainment, Culture, UK Arts, Class System, UK Art, UK Culture, Jarvis Cocker, UK Lifestyle News
Loma-Ann Marks

Time was when everyone knew their place, and being cultured usually involved having a cut- glass accent and a daddy with deep pockets. You were either a toff, in which case you knew about art history and the classics, or common, where your world wasn't so much a stage, but more of a Shakespearean tragedy.

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Here's to 20 Years of Frieze

Amah-Rose McKnight-Abrams | Posted 11.11.2011 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Artnews, Art, Media, Frieze, Popular Culture, East London, UK Entertainment, UK Entertainment News
Amah-Rose McKnight-Abrams

I remember meeting Michael Bracewell at the ICA's 50th birthday celebration. I was a teenager and my friend and I were skulking in the green room, nobody wanted to speak to us.

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Change Is The New Status Quo

Amah-Rose McKnight-Abrams | Posted 24.10.2011 | UK
Read More: Politics News, Politics, Libya, Popular Culture, Egypt, World News, Social Media, Riots, UK News
Amah-Rose McKnight-Abrams

We are living in a time of great change, so great indeed that I do not know whether to text, email or IM my best friend, I have the choice of all three but the way we are communicating is changing so fast that any which one is a good guess, or all three? Just to make sure she gets it.

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Art for Art's Sake

Amah-Rose McKnight-Abrams | Posted 03.10.2011 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Arts, Popular Culture, Higher Education, Education, Arts Education, Scholarships, Creative Arts, Arts Funding, Ukarts, Ukmusic, Ukexhibtion, UK Entertainment News
Amah-Rose McKnight-Abrams

The arts always get sniffed at when cuts get announced as though defending investment in the arts is somehow ill considered or bourgeois but in making art school and the creative industries inaccessible for today's Alexander McQueens I think we may be in danger of loosing a huge and valuable part of our national identity. Can you put a price on that?

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