Feminist Arts and Events:

Jumpy - Review

Jumpy is a witty feminist play starring comedy greats Tamsin Grieg and Doon Mackichan. Major issues simmer beneath the feast of sharp one liners...

Eat Your Heart Out October 2012

Pathology Cake is an extreme baking venture for good girls and bad ones which revels in the sugary and anatomically correct. It shocked people in 2010 with its vagina dentata sponges. Mooks are made of sterner stuff...

Bram Stoker Film Festival 2011...

The Bram Stoker Horror Film Festival 2011 is being held in Whitby UK - the spiritual home of Dracula. Dark revellers swathed in Whitby mourning jet are expected to attend...

Limetree Festival 2011

Mookychick loves the Limetree Festival - cheap, quirky, hippy and genuinely friendly with an intimate feel and genuine surprises. And weekend tickets were only £25! Try it in 2012...

Silence is the modern medieval: Review

'Silence' by Moira Buffini is an apocalyptic medieval comedy-drama with a resonant core message: Every generation fears it may be the last (but all generations have so far been wrong). The play 'Silence' explores both gender and religious values (Norse/Christian) with sensitivity, humour and intelligence...

Global Gathering 2011 - Lineup announced

Global Gathering is one of the dance festival events of the year. Camping tickets are £99 and get you access to Pendulum, Underworld, Carl Cox and more. No Jeff Mills, sadly...

Ode to the Vintage Book

Proactive young editor and longtime mook Rachel Phipps has set up Pilgrim's Proverb, an online second-hand and vintage bookshop. Don't we all hanker for a must-scented vintage book? So good, we could eat their binding...

The insanely awesome guide to German Expressionism

Literati! Vampire-lovers! Silent movie temptresses! Stop whatever you're doing and read our insanely awesome guide to German Expressionism NOW. Tim Burton loves it and so will you. Do it... or we will beat you with the culture stick.

J-Culture Convention UK 2010

The UK J-Culture Convention - JCC - is going ahead in Derby, Sep 25-6, 2010. Support cosplay, j-music, j-culture, otaku life and japanese tea ceremony rituals - be there!

The tattoo art of Angelique Houtkamp

Tattoo art: Renowned tattooist Angelique Houtkamp has moved through sailor tattoo styles (anchors, hearts, swallows, pinups) and burlesque/cabaret influences to bring tattoo art to a most unlikely resting place... the delicate world of water colour.

Align: Big Ideas & Psychogeography

Art Events: A 'pub philosophy' group called Big Ideas are putting on a psychogeography event in January 2010. 'Align' melds ley lines, prehistory and 19th century imperialism with music to create a new history for Shoreditch and the magical London of Allan Moore...

NaNoWriMo!

Creative writing: NaNoWriMo is here! For many, 1 November is just a dreary day, but for crazy pen-grabbers around the world it is THE day to start writing a novel. It's the day when 'one day' becomes... today!

Fan fiction - by the fans, for the fans

Online phenomenon: Whether you love it or hate it, fan fiction is a cult phenomenon. Harry Potter dating Draco? Romping hobbits? Spock and Kirk behaving illogically? Despite the controversy of copyright laws, fan fiction is now so deeply entrenched in internet culture that - for better or for worse - it's truly beyond our control...

The sexy side of circus - Tabu

Art Events: Where in the world can find middle-aged theatre snobs fraternising (getting drunk) with a bunch of artsy lefty young things whilst being harassed by a wild-haired woman creating phallic symbols out of children's toys? In an inflatable spaceship in Newport, that's where. Welcome to the circus nouveau of 'Tabu'...

Street cred - Banksy's latest UK exhibition

Art Events: A hoodie/grim reaper self-harming and the council worker cleaning off cave paintings. It's got to be the artwork of Banksy! Holly Kirkwood takes a look at how graffiti artist Banksy came to be the latest darling of the art world, and wonders if graffiti can make the transition from pavement to art gallery.