The Extinction of the Supermodel
“Sashay away!”, an unabashed voice exclaims from our TV screens. For those not au fait with RuPaul’s Drag Race, this pithy one-liner will invariably spell the end for an aspiring drag queen, sending them packing, with neither their lifetime supply of cosmetics nor their $100,000. For us fans,
On This Day: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
I’ve always been slightly obsessed by ‘the canon’ of rock music, and, despite its dubious authority, I’ve ultimately been thankful for it, too. It’s a good place to start and not a bad place to finish, and while it may delimit, it also guides; while it may baffle the few, it makes great se
The Blowjob Café
The premise is simple: you go in, order coffee, pay £60 and select an ‘escort’ from an iPad to perform fellatio on you whilst you chat with your friends. Bradley Charvet has already set up Café Pipe, a sex-work cafe in Geneva, and now has his sights set on bringing this uniquely chilling enter
Rap and the Regime
You stand naked and it’s so cold/ Daily rounds of torturing, hanging, shocking with electricity Abu-Hajar wrote these lyrics on the first few nights of his imprisonment in Tartarus prison, West Syria. Arrested for spreading political pamphlets and singing an anti-regime song on the streets of his
On This Day: Paul Simon
Anybody who, like me, spent at least one fifth of their childhood dinner-times in the welcome company of Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water cannot have helped forming an opinion on the relative artistic merits of Art Garfunkel. For better or worse, it seems to me that Garfun
A Kiss for Syria: Tammam Azzam
In early 2011, Damascus was witnessing the rise of a revolution. The world was beginning to notice a rebirth occurring in the Syrian capital and from all corners of the globe, it was being watched with a wary eye. Art had seized the city and the force of this renaissance was reverberating far beyond
Navy bandsman Graham Jackson (1945)
There is, of course, no such thing as a ‘Perfect Photograph’, nor is there any way of truly judging such a subjective medium. And yet, if there was ever a portrait which uses the ostensible ‘Golden Ratio’ so perfectly, it’s Ed Clark’s melancholy snapshot of Navy bandsman Graham Ja
REVIEW: RxJ
It begins with Mercutio, which is right. For an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet which claims to be a ‘radical new imagining of Shakespeare’s classic,’ it seems intuitive to open with Mercutio’s dying speech, the moment the play turns to tragedy, merging with the familiar prologue. Rory Fraser