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Presents: au Contraire?
This year, we must eye over the numerous paradoxical presents we will receive. Gifts with a second meaning which contrast the merry making of bestowing or artlessly juxtapose through their very existence. The acrylic ‘Wool substitute’ Christmas jumper which looks great on but will inevitably release micro-fibres after journeying through the washing machine. The water…
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Charlotte Salomon: Victim of more than the Holocaust
Friday, 9th of December see the release of the new Charlotte animated biopic nationwide across the UK and much of Northern Europe. The voice of Charlotte, the Jewish artist who lost her life at Auschwitz while heavily pregnant, is played by Keira Knightly and, as of now, looks to be a triumph at the box…
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Heating & Eating this Christmas
Impoverished? Not totally? The choice between using the central heating or a pig’s head for Christmas dinner? ot actually on the cards? However, admittingly, we are all tightening our belts and reducing household fuel consumption is top of the list. These, exquisite, plant-pot heaters fuelled by the simplicity of 4 tea tree lights offer an…
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A Magical Mantle
Feel like being inventive for advent this year? Try this eco, ultra-creative model for a more wholesome festive indulgence. All the indulgence of Harrods deluxe, but with the cost of a bag of sweets from your local discounters. Made from a collection of jars, mainly spice in this example. Each jar was coated internally with…
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Art of the Terraces
Art of the Terraces, strategically breaks the silence at the Walker. Chanting crowds, techno and strobe lighting penetrate the exhibition. If you are pursuing a mindful break from the clangour of the Christmas markets to therapeutically peruse a few historic canvasses, surrounded by meditative silence this exhibition is one to bypass in haste! Fashions, fanzines…
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Spinster
Spinster love or hate the term? Spinster is frequently seen as a derogatory term. Use be the most adored Jane Austen painted single women as characters of ridicule through her novels. Helen Fielding presents Spinsterhood as a fate worse than death through the globally cherished Bridget Jones. Often evoking pity, or the stereotype of envious…
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Gold Toothed Skulls
Gold Toothed Skulls at the Museum Rags Boutique returned to the Mersey facing Museum of Liverpool last Saturday for the renowned Irish Festival. Between dance performances, musical melodies and folk themed frollicks the little makers flourished in mask making. Samhain themes of Bats and Pumpkins returned, with the addition of Witches Black Cats and Gold…
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Snow White bar the 7 Dwarfs
Earlier this year it was announced that the new, in production, Snow White would be bar the 7 Dwarfs. Following ongoing controversy, Disney has opted to remove the little men completely and replace them with magical creatures. A justified resolution? Would modernising the parts and avoiding dwarf stereotyping have been a more fluid option? The…
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Turner Prize: Tate Liverpool
The eve of the Turner Prize opening, queues form as the wind lashes salt from the Mersey on Liverpool’s Royal Albert Dock. Returning to Liverpool for the first time it was held outside of London in 2007-8 for the Capital of Culture year. Mucked in with the masses, David Beckham style, we saw a few…
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Awakening the Pen
Alison Little talks us through the influences behind her novel: Causal Nexus and her hopes for the future of the works. The initial motivation to pen Causal Nexus was rapidly prior to reading Nathan Fillers Costa 2013 Book of the year: ‘The shock of the Fall’. Submerged by the vividly pragmatic fiction, Filer bestows an…
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