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Broadstairs Food Festival returns for Easter 2024

Broadstairs Food Festival returns for Easter 2024

Sponsored Content: Featuring 100 of the region’s best artisan food-and-drink producers

Focus, Food and DrinkJoe BillMarch 5, 2024#kent, Broadstairs, Food Festival 2024, #32, Feature

Who Lives Here?: Interview with Kent illustrator Bex Glendining

Who Lives Here?: Interview with Kent illustrator Bex Glendining

Ramsgate illustrator and colourist Bex Glendining on drawing clutter, slice-of-life inspiration and emailing Marvel

Exclusive, Art and DesignJoe BillMarch 5, 2024#kent, #32, Feature, Bex Glendining, Ramsgate, Illustrator, Marvel, DC Comics

Casa Pizzeria - A Taste of Naples in Margate

Casa Pizzeria - A Taste of Naples in Margate

Sponsored Content: A warm and welcoming atmosphere with traditional Napoli-style pizza

Focus, Food and DrinkJoe BillMarch 4, 2024#kent, #32, Feature, Casa Pizzeria, Cliftonville, Margate

WHERE TO GO IN THE OLD HIGH STREET INTRA, MEDWAY

WHERE TO GO IN THE OLD HIGH STREET INTRA, MEDWAY

From Star Hill to Sun Pier, between Rochester High Street and Chatham High Street, lies arguably one of the most interesting streets in Kent

DiscoveryJoe BillJanuary 9, 2024Exclusive, Feature, Old High Street Intra, Medway, Rochester, Chatham, Sun Pier House, Intra Arts, The Dead Pigeon, Miss Sourdough bakery, HL Dark Room, Miss Ava's Millinery, #31

CATS WHO CARE: Timothy Midnight X Stuart Trevor Interview

CATS WHO CARE: Timothy Midnight X Stuart Trevor Interview

Margate artist Timothy Midnight collaborates with AllSaints founder Stuart Trevor on a brand that gives ‘deadstock’ another life, writes Joe Bill

FashionJoe BillJanuary 5, 2024Exclusive, Feature, #31, Stuart Trevor, AllSaints, Cats Who Care, Cats Who Smoke, Timothy Midnight

Hectic Harmony: Interview with Hughie Gavin & Institute Collective

Hectic Harmony: Interview with Hughie Gavin & Institute Collective

From The Social Singing Choir to the soundtrack of True Detective, and WWF to Billie Eilish, Margate’s Hughie Gavin has got his hands full, but you’d never know

MusicJoe BillJanuary 5, 2024Exclusive, Feature, #31, Hughie Gavin, Jakl Music, Social Singing Choir, Institute Collective, Margate

The Secret Salon: Pop-up art exhibitions to help emerging talent

The Secret Salon: Pop-up art exhibitions to help emerging talent

Sevenoaks artist Andree Adley launches pop-up art exhibition to help emerging talent

Art and DesignJoe BillJanuary 5, 2024Exclusive, Feature, #31, The Secret Salon, Art, Andree Adley, Sevenoaks

Laid Bear: An Interview with LUAP & The Pink Bear

Laid Bear: An Interview with LUAP & The Pink Bear

Former Canterbury art student turned international Pink Bear-clad thrill-seeker, LUAP talks Mongolian horses, Italian lightning and storytelling

Art and DesignJoe BillJanuary 5, 2024Exclusive, Feature, #31, LUAP, Paul Robinson, Artist, Stprytellers, Canterbury, Pink Bear

The Reel Experience: Rebel Reel Cine Club

The Reel Experience: Rebel Reel Cine Club

Rebel Reel Cine Club is taking iconic subculture films to amazing places and enhancing guest experience with the art, fashion and music that accompanies the screening

CultureJoe BillJanuary 5, 2024Exclusive, Feature, #31, Rebel Reel Cine Club, Cinema, Outdoor, Dungeness, Westwell Wines

Speaking Freely: Interview with lyricist Paul Cree

Speaking Freely: Interview with lyricist Paul Cree

Renowned poet and lyricist Paul Cree on open mic nights, battle rapping pensioners and forging a career in the spoken word

CultureJoe BillJanuary 5, 2024Exclusive, Feature, #31, Paul Cree, Maidstone

Lust for Live: Kent rock photos from Maidstone's Matt Stridgen

Lust for Live: Kent rock photos from Maidstone's Matt Stridgen

Gig photographer Matt Stridgen on shooting bands and the lust for live

Art and DesignJoe BillJanuary 5, 2024Exclusive, Feature, #31, Rock, Live Music, Photographer, Matt Stridgen, Maidstone

DOT THE DIFFERENCE: Broadstairs tattooist Martha Smith on her unique ‘dot work’ style

DOT THE DIFFERENCE: Broadstairs tattooist Martha Smith on her unique ‘dot work’ style

Martha Smith uses her unique ‘dot work’ style to beautify the most nondescript of objects

FashionJoe BillNovember 2, 2023HomeExclusive, Feature, Martha Smith, Broadstairs, Thanet, Tattoos, HOME, #30

Beans, Rhymes & Life: j.flowers.mp3, Dutchkid & Melk Coffee in Sidcup

Beans, Rhymes & Life: j.flowers.mp3, Dutchkid & Melk Coffee in Sidcup

Songwriter, barista, artist… Jordi Van Dyk on the mix of music and Melk

MusicJoe BillNovember 2, 2023Exclusive, Feature, J.flowers.mp3, Dutchkid, Melk Coffee Sidcup, #30

Handmade in Bridge - indie Shawls finding their way to Hollywood icon

Handmade in Bridge - indie Shawls finding their way to Hollywood icon

Crafted on a 1975 muscle-powered knitting machine, Sima Said’s merino shawls are sought after from Bridge to Hollywood

FashionJoe BillNovember 1, 2023Exclusive, Feature, Handmade in Bridge, Shawls, Canterbury, Sharon Stone, #30

In Conversation with... Youth Sector

In Conversation with... Youth Sector

Easy to recognise but not easy to define, creative rockers Youth Sector talk streaming, lyrics and zero-hour contracts

MusicJoe BillOctober 10, 2023Exclusive, Feature, #29, Youth Sector, Interview

HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS - THE MARGATE SCHOOL

HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS - THE MARGATE SCHOOL

With its future finally secured, The Margate School aims to put creativity at the heart of the community

Art and DesignJoe BillSeptember 4, 2023Exclusive, Feature, The Margate School, #29

String Theory: The West Kent guitar strings famous around the world

String Theory: The West Kent guitar strings famous around the world

West Kent’s Rotosound strings - used by The Beatles, Oasis, Blur and, well, just about everybody

MusicJoe BillSeptember 4, 2023Exclusive, Feature, Rotosound, Guitar Strings, Sevenoaks, The Beatles, #29, Oasis, Blur

JUST JAE: Q&A with Ramsgate artist JAE

JUST JAE: Q&A with Ramsgate artist JAE

From live-drawing MAC make-up customers to owls and hand-painting plant pots

Art and DesignJoe BillSeptember 1, 2023Exclusive, Feature, #29, Ramsgate, JAE, Illustrator

Hexed - THE GREEN LOOK

Hexed - THE GREEN LOOK

Sustainable fashion brand Hexed puts recycled plastics and rescued cotton front and centre of its unisex loungewear collection

FashionJoe BillJuly 5, 2023Exclusive, Feature, Hexed Fashion, Chislehurst, #28

LIGHT & DARK - Stefania Kossakowska

LIGHT & DARK - Stefania Kossakowska

Inspired by Polish folklore and finding beauty in the shadows, Canterbury photographer Stefania Kossakowska reflects on her shoot style

Art and DesignJoe BillJuly 5, 2023Exclusive, Feature, Stefania Kossakowska, Interview, Canterbury, #28