Leeds Lit Fest Launched

Sometimes it seems that Leeds has more than its fair share of festivals. They cover just about every type of alcoholic drink, various kinds of food, film, tech, comic books, and music in all its forms as well as Leeds International Festival featured on this very page….. …..so it came as quite a surprise that […]

Let’s Do  Lunch at Viet Guy

This is the first time I’ve ever written this in a review and I certainly hope that it’ll be the last:  I advise you either not to visit this restaurant, or to do so with caution. It wasn’t so much the food which was responsible for the nasty taste in my mouth which accompanied me […]

In Conversation With Bruce Lerman

Only two months to go before the Leeds Gin Fair takes place at the amazing Corn Exchange building. To get me into the mood and find out some background I took a stroll to The Hedonist Project to speak to Bruce Lerman, one of the organisers of the event. The reason we met at one […]

Let’s Do Lunch at Cantinho do Aziz

A couple of weeks ago I was asked if I would pop along to Holbeck Urban Village to take some photographs at Round Foundry, so I took my usual route through the Dark Arches and Granary Wharf to Water Lane. Wharf Approach was closed to traffic, so it was lucky I don’t have a car, […]

random – at Leeds Playhouse Pop-up until 16 February

There is a saying that ‘less is more’ and it could not have been more perfectly illustrated than by the play ‘random’ by debbie tucker green. It is ‘less’ on several counts: there is only one performer, there are no props, no scene changes and at a running time of fifty-five minutes, no wasted words. […]