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London : wanna learn something (old) new?
In London this week and at a loose end? Our tip for trying something new would be to take the bus to Walthamstow for a Sashiko+Boro – Japanese Mending Workshop. Well, it may be new to you but Boro is the age-old Japanese art of mending textiles and is literally translated as rags or scraps…
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Queerguru’s David Lagachu reviews DRIVE MY CAR a ‘soul-feeding and visually breathtaking’ film by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Japanese writer Haruki Murakami enjoys a cult status among the readers of the 21st century. Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi undertook the mammoth task of adapting his short story ‘Drive My Car’ into an eponymous film. The result is soul-feeding and visually breathtaking. The film has an unmistakable life force in it that is contagious. …
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Between Certain Death & A Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up in The AIDS Crisis : reviewed by Jonathan Kemp
Reaching sexual maturity is an overwhelming enough experience at the best of times: worrying that everything is functioning properly and there was nothing untoward about what one did or how one did it; but for an entire generation, like myself, reaching puberty in the 1980s, that stage of our lives was made scarier yet by…
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Will ‘The Men Of West Hollywood” be the next unmissable reality TV show?
The guys of the Entertainment Desk at Queerguru like to think they know (almost) everything. Then at least once a week something comes along that totally debunks that theory. This time it’s Crackle. Hands up for all of you who have ever heard of this TV streaming service that has been around since 2004.…
