British Sandwich Week – and Stan Graham Rewrites History
‘Ey up sunshine! Make yourself useful and get your backside down to the kitchen, stick some meat in between a couple of slices of Warburton’s and be back ‘ere sharpish.’ These words, or something vaguely resembling them, were uttered by John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, to his valet. This may or may not […]
Review: Be My Baby – Leeds Playhouse Pop-up
The season of plays in the Pop-up theatre at Leeds Playhouse is coming to a close with the Amanda Whittington play Be My Baby. If you are going to end a season by leaving people craving for the next, then this is the way to do it. Be My Baby tells the story of Mary, […]
LIF19 – Food and Drink Photography
I seem to spend most of my time photographing and writing about food, so I thought that I would go along to this event at the Leeds Indie Food Festival to see if I could pick up any tips with which to hone my skills. The two and a half hour workshop took place at […]
LIF19 – Asfaneh’s Taste of Persia
I have passed Seven Artspace and Cafe Bar many times on my commute to Leeds City Centre to cover events for Leeds Living, but until last night I had never been inside. After five minutes, even though I was due to revisit for another presentation today, I had promised myself that I would never go […]
Leeds Playhouse – A New Season in New Spaces
How time flies. It only seems like a couple of weeks ago that I was at West Yorkshire Playhouse for the announcement that the name would change to Leeds Playhouse and that work was about to begin on a huge redevelopment project… …and now there I was, at the Pop-up Theatre, being told that the […]
