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 The days of Gallery Terracina are numbered. Hannah Prothero visits the gallery’s latest exhibition to look at Steve Thorpe’s Works of Friction. The full article appears in the autumn issue of Art in Devon. The author Primo Levi once described his comrade as being like the element ‘iron’ for his impenetrable sense of resolve. Devon-based We know what it’s like. You wanna go to the pictures but you also wanna watch the film in total discomfort, laugh wryly at the ‘jokes’ and explain to your wife, at considerable volume, just what Bergman meant when he ’invented’ the chess-playing dead bloke. Well, now you bloody can. Just flip over to D+CFilm’s weekly Arthouse Roundup – it’s Niki’s back and says yah boo sux to the Thin White Duke. AEON was excellent and the bands rocked. Listen to the lady herself offering thanks to all as the Melting Pot Podcast cranks back into gear. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Before Shaun Of The Dead made him a household name, Simon Pegg popped up in a best-forgotten comedy sketch show called We Know Where You Live. The so called ‘highlights’ of the series are brought together on a new DVD, released this week. Head over to D+CFilm to watch a clip of Pegg struggling to organise a bit of wife-swapping. Posted by Forget all the brew-ha-ha about e-commerce and the other seedy side of the internet (psst – you can now buy ads on the PRSD), the web is all about communication. Those silver surfers out there are using it to keep in touch with their grandchildren, according to Age Concern, whose Silver Surfer week is set We all know Devon does well with recycling – remember, at the turn of the year figures were released saying the percentage of rubbish recycled in the Devon County Council area went up from 40.6 per cent to 45.7 per cent (the national average is 26 per cent). And a Tavistock trial proves that the There are five groups in the Devon which are sharing around £2.6 million from the Big Lottery Fund. We have details of two, the Home-Start South Hams – Stepping Stones project and Exeter Nightstop (perhaps the Big Lottery Fund could shoot through details of the others?) The Home-Start South Hams – Stepping Stones project offers Two Days In Paris is in cinemas this week, and to celebrate D+CFilm has an interview with director and star Julie Delpy for your delectation. It’s an entertaining yap, which sees the lovely lady talking about jealous girlfriends, racist cab drivers and attacking American tourists. Click these skinny red words to have a look. In the Sustainable dance means more than waving your hands in the air for hours on end. The Waveform Project at Powderham in a fortnight (14-16 September) is the UK’s first green dance music festival. The organisers, Family Gathering, have been working with Powderham and the council and all those other interested parties to produce a sustainable |
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