Q&A: Kit Caless on Influx Press and the History of London Hidden in Spoons Carpets
Kit Caless is a writer, broadcaster and co-founder and editor of independent publisher, Influx Press. He created the cult blog Wetherspoons Carpets, a photographic record of the carpets unique to Spoons pubs up and down the country, which has been turned into a book. He is also fiction editor at Minor Literatures.
“Within that ordinary space were hidden the building blocks of the universe”: Susan Eyre on Laboratory of Dark Matters
“We crammed into a narrow container, descending the shaft for seven long minutes into blackness before arriving in a hot and dusty subterranean world.” Photo taken of a particle trail from a test run by the Laboratory of Dark Matters.
Strap in for this one, as artist Susan Eyre takes us on a journey that wouldn’t sound out of place in the best Doctor Who episodes, but is in, fact, entirely factual.
The legacy of Secret Garden Party: Speaking to Head Gardener Freddie Fellowes
Parties have a way of enrapturing us that few other entities command. Distilling every detail, every commotion, into a sum of parts is always reductive. The magic is in the motion of the thing- it’s in the conga line, snaking through town, bending around on itself and back through the front door where an implausible amount of people just surfaced from.
Wandsworth Arts Fringe announces sneak preview line-up
With the first tickets now on sale for the 2017 Wandsworth Arts Fringe, the festival reveals the first highlights from the borough’s month-long arts celebration for the eighth consecutive year.
The best places to celebrate Holi this weekend
It’s a spring thing. Decidedly so. Whatsapp chats centre around when the first barbecue of the year would be appropriate and Easter is still six weeks away.
Embrace the turn of the season without having to resort to chocolate, and instead get ready get messy with powdered gulal paint, to celebrate the Hindu festival of Holi at the start of spring.