CONTENT NOTE: The play that is the subject of this interview deals with mental health and suicide, which are referenced in the piece. “When my teenage years hit I went through this stage of being like, drama’s not cool. I don’t want to do that.” This week, the Citizens Young Co. will be performing Adrift, […]
We were invited to a pre-opening tasting event at Bibimbap West. All views are my own and unbiased. I’ve never been very adventurous when eating out. While it’s partly a byproduct of my legendary fussiness – why order something new when there’s every chance you won’t like it? – I like to convince myself that […]
I’ve been trying, in a relatively informal way, to shop a little more intentionally this year. Buy better. Buy to last. Stop resenting what things are actually worth and don’t buy if I can’t afford the thing, rather than attempt to source a cheap alternative which will end up breaking in a fortnight. (I say […]
This post was originally published in November 2017. It has been updated with relevant dates and links for 2019. Every year, I tell myself that, this Christmas, I’m going to make the effort to shop small, and buy as many of my gifts as possible from independent retailers. Every year, I end up picking a […]
I’m slowly becoming a Spotify convert. I may be one of those people who still buys a decent chunk of her music in physical formats – vinyl, CD (although it occurred to me recently, as I brought another plastic haul home, that I don’t currently have anything on which to play the latter) – but […]
My tickets were comped for review purposes courtesy of ATG. A jukebox musical based around the songs of Green Day isn’t as bizarre an idea as that sounds. American Idiot, the Grammy Award-winning album that kicked off the trio’s second coming as arena-punk giants, was written as a “punk-rock opera” – even if the band never […]
My tickets were comped for review purposes courtesy of Citizen’s Theatre. One of the joys of Cora Bissett’s theatremaking is the way in which she can take the most personal stories and draw out the big themes, without ever compromising on their humanity. It doesn’t get more personal for Bissett than What Girls Are Made […]