Hike 4 Hospices has been running (actually, walking) its annual charity hike for a few years now, but this year’s event is going out on a limb. The five-mile stretch from Devil’s Dyke to St. Botolphs will be a Fun Leg.
by: Mike Cobley
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Hike 4 Hospices: Five Miles For Four Local Hospices
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 King Porter Stomp Play Official Afterparty
On Sunday 12 July, 800 costumed people will have paraded through the streets, a predicted 15,000 will have watched them and another 5,000 enjoyed the live music, food and activities at the Brighton Carnival Village on Madeira Drive…but that is just the first party, the second is the Official Afterparty!
Concorde 2 is hosting the 2009 Carnival Afterparty and bringing the crowds a sizzling line-up of renowned local bands as a ...
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 The Specials: Undeserved Legacy Of Miserabilsm
The Specials continue their 30th Anniversary celebrations with the announcement of the final dates of their tour, one of which brings them to the Brighton Centre.
Their earlier dates in April and May of this year sold-out in record time, and received spectacular reactions and reviews.
If you are undecided as to whether to dust down your trilby,...
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 ‘Neurotica’: Collection Of The Erotic & ‘Neurotic’
Following the unmitigated success of the Madonna Nudes, Impure Art Gallery present their next coup - an exhibition of arresting and sensual self-portraits by the young woman who became a phenomenon through the internet, Miss Aniela.
‘Neurotica’ is a collection of Miss Aniela’s images from the most erotic to the most ‘neurotic’, focusing on the use of light and the female form.
Her work is charged w...
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 Tall Stories Theatre Company: Room On The Broom
Try putting an old episode of 'Trumpton' on the DVD player, after you and your kids have watched some modern TV programmes. It looks, and seems, slow, very slow, not very much happens, and it's almost boring.
Why? Well simply put, the duration of scenes in modern children's TV can be less than 10% of what they were in the early 1970's. It’s all fast and furious, full of CGI and flashing lights.
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 Vespa & Lambretta Riding Mods Head For Brighton
August bank holiday will see the young Vespa and Lambretta riding Mods from all over the UK and beyond return to their spiritual home of Brighton for an action packed weekend, forty plus years since the original modernists set foot on the East Sussex seaside resort back in 1964.
This years event coincides with the launch of brand new Mods book called ‘I’m One’ (21st Century Mods) by Horst R Fredriechs with sleeve notes from Who guitarist Pete Townshend...
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 Dan Wilkinson & 'Elwin' Tickle Stephen Fry's Funny Bone
Dan Wilkinson, a Digital Media Design student at City College Brighton and Hove has won praise from Stephen Fry for an animation he created for his end-of-year project.
Students were given a brief to create an animated opening sequence for a TV programme to give them an awareness of the current commercial applications of animation techniques.
Dan came up w...
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 Malcolm Gladwell Believes Real Change Is Possible
Malcolm Gladwell stands before me, at Brighton Dome, around 20 feet high and frozen, through black and white photography, into a calm half-smiling look of confidence that gives the whole room the feeling of a political rally or maybe a religious meeting.
Gladwell himself looks like a cross between Groucho Marx and someone out of the Talking Heads mixed up with a 1970's female tennis player whose name I cannot recall (Evonne Goolagong, Ed...
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 Albion In The Community @ Work
Albion in the Community (the charitable arm of Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club) is teaming up with the Football Foundation, the Department of Health and the Men’s Health Forum to use the power of football to help fight cancer amongst men in and around Brighton.
Managed nationally by the Football Foundation, Ahead of the Game aims to raise awareness through the power of football of the signs, symptoms and risk factors of bowel, lung and p...
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 Jason Murphy (Centre) With Students Nina Scerri & Callum Powell
Music Technology students at City College Brighton and Hove are currently performing and recording tracks for their own compilation CD using a state-of-the-art mixing desk that was recently used by rock
legends U2 and their producer Brian Eno at London’s Olympic Studios.
The finished album will be released on the College’s student-run label, Brighton Records, which was set up to help the students gain an insight into the music industry and gain valuable ...
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 Amy Winehouse Making Modern Day News In Brighton
Included as part of The British Library’s launch of the public version of its 19th century British Library Newspaper website, is a digital version of the Brighton Patriot.
The Brighton Patriot and Lewes Free Press was the brainchild of George Faithfull, a solicitor and leading reformer in Brighton.
When the 1832 Reform Bill enfr...
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