Author: Lyndsey Skinner
The Splendour of Jesmond Dene
When the sunlight is thrown in a certain way through horse chestnut tree leaves, I am reminded of all the times that I’ve been an aspiring cyclist.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley talks to Northern Soul
The telephone purrs ominously in my hand. I swirl the last dregs of lukewarm coffee at the bottom of the cup while sitting cross-legged on my desk chair, and stare at the pile of press releases and hand-written notes in scratchy blue biro on my desk.
An obsessive Morrissey fan attempts List of the Lost
‘Of course the same thing happened to Keats, you know.’
Review: The Herb Garden, Newcastle
“I’m going to The Herb Garden on Wednesday,” I said to a friend. “Oh,” she replied, “I’ve been past there a few times. It’s the one with the rollerskating horse in the doorway, isn’t it?”
Jeremy Corbyn rally: Newcastle says “Jez we can”
On a relentlessly grey, damp and oppressive Tuesday afternoon on Newcastle’s Thornton Street, Jeremy Corbyn took to a makeshift stage to address the crowds in hats and waterproofs who had gathered there to listen to him.
Cartoonist David Haldane on Blyth library, Private Eye and the North
Some children respond to the question “what would you like to be when you grow up?” in outlandish ways.
Last orders at Intermezzo…
On a cloudless June day in Newcastle, the news sounded like a church bell: unable to secure an extension of its lease, Intermezzo Coffee Bar is to close in April 2016.
Review: Hay Fever at The People’s Theatre, Newcastle
If, as Oscar Wilde once said, “a little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal”, then Noel Coward’s delightfully flippant Hay Fever stays well away from the danger zone.
Painted Elephant: Newcastle’s first vegan restaurant
It was on a camping holiday with friends in Loch Lomond and the Trossachs that I encountered the worst meal I’ve ever had.
Review: The God of Carnage, People’s Theatre, Newcastle
Years of consuming art in its different forms – seeing plays, reading novels, listening to music and watching films – has left me with a profound fear of the institution of marriage.
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