posted by Cptn
Award-winning Devon Youth Jazz Orchestra with Artist in Residence John Etheridge set the Teignmouth Jazz Festival swinging today as the whole town is subsumed by the syncopated rythmns of the three-day event.
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 posted by Cptn Because we don’t get out much, we missed World Responsible Tourism Day, which was Wednesday, November 12. But what is responsible tourism? posted by Cptn Seeing as we started today reaching for the stars, we thought we’d offer you this hot-off-the-press news that an Exeter astronomer has helped capture the first images of a multi-planet system around another star, much like our own solar system, cue eerie sci-fi music. posted by Cptn Can you make a film in just two long days? Of course you can, especially if you take the 48-Hour Film challenge that is part of the Two Short Nights film festival at the Exeter Phoenix. Pippa Stephenson speaks to organiser Jane Rosenbaum over on D+CFilm. 1 comment - ()posted by Cptn When the blurb for Cupola Bobber’s performance at the Exeter Phoenix on Tuesday November 18 at 8pm, mentioned vaudeville and the night sky, I had an odd vision of Patrick Moore in some kind of Christmas special. Which was made even more ominous by the show’s rejoinder: “If I die, my posted by Cptn With a pot of European gold (that’s Euros to you) up for grabs, Devon County Council is stepping in line to finance some of the county’s projects with the next round of funding, which ends in 2013. posted by Cptn Curbing those chocolate urges is top of most people’s daily ‘to do’ list. (Or have we been watching too much daytime telly?), and new research from Exeter Univeristy might have the answer. 9 comments - ()The people have spoken, kinda, via the populist democratic tool of social networking this is, in this case, Facebook. The ‘I F**king hate Nick Bye. Mayor of Torbay‘ Facebook group has 452 members, whereas ‘Nick Bye- Mayor of Torbay appreciation society‘ has just 60, and most of these seem pretty ironic. Find out who’s been having a flaming good time, and who hasn’t, in the People’s Republic of South Devon weekly news round up. posted by Cptn Sing for Fun in Exeter with Forever Young on Monday November 10 . Art and cultural events are threatened in Exeter if the cash-strapped council doesn’t find a sponsor to put them on. posted by Cptn Did you know buses are cool? Apparently it’s what the kids are saying, in so far as 900 of them (from 42 schools) took in the ‘Buses are cool’ cartoon competition in support of Devon Car Free Day. posted by Ctpn An artist’s impression of what the Torquay Innovation Centre looks like . South West MEP Graham Watson is in Torquay today to open the fillip to business that is the new state-of-the-art Innovation Centre. 1 comment - ()Art exhibition of the week: Let Down, new work by Shan Miller, at The Plough, Torrington on November 7 to November 29. posted by Cptn The blurb says that this is the most personal show from the Taddiport artist since her Everything I’ve Ever Done exhibition in 2001. Shan isn’t afraid to show intimate |
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Fruit and veg fashion parade to end
posted by Cptn
You may be familiar with ugli fruit, but get yourself prepared for ugly vegetables, too. Yup, those EU rules which meant fruit and veg conformed to a particular perception of beauty are to be scrapped, which means our five-a-days aren’t going to be judged by looks alone.
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