Interview: Lars Mikkelsen: “England produces the best actors in the world”
Ben Meagher has coffee with star of the Danish screen Lars Mikkelsen in Copenhagen and discovers why Mikkelsen once believed he’d become a clown. On one of the corners of Sønder Boulevard, a lively suburb of Vesterbro to the west of Copenhagen, lies a café-come-corner shop that brews and bottles its own beer and sells those niche magazines [...]
Tv: The Village
The BBC’s latest drama The Village delivers a touching story of Bert (Bill Jones), a young boy struggling with the hardships of life in a small village during the outbreak of the First World War. The six part series spanning 1914-1920 introduces a number of characters, from a burgeoning suffragette to a young man about [...]
Books: Rook by Jane Rusbridge
Rook is set in the enchanting coastal village of Bosham in Sussex, and Rusbridge paints the scene with rich descriptions of the sprawling shoreline and surrounding scenery. It opens with Nora’s sudden return home to Creek House, much to the disgruntlement of her mother Ada, who has an unstable grip on reality. The explanation for [...]
Books: Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall by William Ellsworth-Jones
Banksy is not a graffiti artist. To call him a graffiti artist is naïve and ignorant way to think about street art, and is, quite frankly, painfully uncool. Of course I, like almost everyone else outside the complex underworld of graffiti, had absolutely no clue whatsoever that there is a distinction between graffiti and what [...]
Books: The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
1960’s rural England provides the backdrop to the opening of Kate Morton’s novel The Secret Keeper, within which we are introduced to Laurel, a sixteen year-old enjoying the type of idyllic, meltingly hot and peaceful summer’s day that now seems to evade our miserable 21st Century British summertime. Morton’s first chapter is built up slowly, [...]
The Interview: Howard Marks: “I took my first E with my daughters”
Lucy Holden meets Mr Nice – the most sophisticated drugs baron of all time – at his Leeds tapas restaurant Azucar, to discuss yoga and debauchery, being the most wanted man in the world, and why he’s more frightened of easyJet than the Mafia. Howard Marks says he doesn’t dislike being sober. But it’s [...]
The Eating Out Scout: NY Burger Kitchen
Think stereotypical American food done averagely and you have it here, food in baskets, gingham check paper, fried everything, burgers and beer. NY Burger Kitchen at the end of Call Lane is Leeds’ new burger joint, here to start the burger revolution apparently, though a far cry from what it actually delivers. If you want [...]
Cheap ways to get away…
What better way to celebrate end of exams than a break which doesn’t break the bank… If you are thinking about gallivanting away to some exotic, or not so exotic, location this summer, then why not consider couchsurfing instead of staying in hostels or hotels, and save yourself bundles on accommodation! Couchsurfing was established in [...]
The Interview: Caitlin Moran: “And that’s why I’m running for Prime Minister”
Mod-feminist Caitlin Moran speaks exclusively to Lucy Holden about previously unrevealed self-harm, a new sit-com, and why she doesn’t want to do interviews anymore – all at a hundred miles an hour. Caitlin Moran knows how to sell. And she’s trying to sell me. Accidentally early, I’m shivering at the end of Moran’s road [...]