Happy Christmas from the Leake St graffiti tunnel

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Review: Fascinating Aida – Charm Offensive, Southbank Centre

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 When you’ve been around for a while, you pick up some moves. Now into their fourth decade of performance, musical comedy trio Fascinating Aïda demonstrate many a nifty turn in their latest run, Charm Offensive, which plays at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall until January 10, following a national tour. Funny, clever and unexpectedly […]

Oklahoma now considers glitter a terror threat

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  On Friday December 13, four environmental activists with Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance were arrested at the headquarters of Devon Energy, a company engaged in fracking and tar-sands extraction of which the Keystone XL pipeline is a major example. Two of them chained themselves to the building’s entrance and two of them unfurled a Hunger Games-inspired […]

Not Television’s top ten cabaret events 2013

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 Another year down, another heaving goodie bag of cabaret goodness to trawl through in the name of the fool’s errand of selecting the year’s finest. I won’t pretend this is remotely objective or comprehensive – it’s just ten of the moments from 2013 that stand out for me. Let me know the bits you think […]

Jarmania 2014

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 2014 is the twentieth anniversary of the death of Derek Jarman, one of Britain’s  most erudite, esoteric, erotic and exquisite visual artists of recent generations, and as queer as a glittery dildo reading Proust. From Thatcherite satire to reimaginings of Caravaggio and Wittgenstein, videos for Pet Shop Boys to gardening in the shadow of a […]

Watching is doing! NYC’s EAI video archive

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  New York’s Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) has been archiving, preserving and exhibiting a huge range of video and multimedia work since 1971. It’s basically like Aladdin’s cave with a remote control. Personally, I’m partial to a bit of Ryan Trecartin, whose domestic sagas have bits of Jack Smith’s will-to-glamour and John Waters’s fucked-up-family vibes […]

Meanwhile, over at the Standard…

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  I wrote a round-up of a dozen festive cabaret shows for today’s Evening Standard. You can read the whole thing here.

Farewell, Time Out cabaret page. Welcome to Not Television.

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 This morning’s cabaret page in Time Out London will be the last one. This brings to an end a section that was created in January 2009 by its first editor, Simone Baird, from whom I took over in October 2009. It also brings to an end my working on a weekly basis for Time Out […]

 
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