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Tabitha Jussa Wins This Year’s Liverpool Art Prize.

Tabitha Jussa was last night announced as the winner of this year’s Liverpool Art Prize at a special awards ceremony at Edge Hill Station, collecting the main prize which includes £2,000 and an invitation to create a solo exhibition at the Bluecoat in 2015. Work from Tabitha and the other two finalists Brigitte Jurack and Jason Thompson, have been on display since the 9th May and the exhibition runs until Saturday 21st June.

Managed by Metal, the Art Prize is a competition of contemporary art inspired by the Turner Prize coming to Liverpool during the Capital of Culture year in 2008, and celebrates and nurtures the creative talent of artists based or born in the Liverpool region.

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Austrian Guitar Sensation To Hold U.K. Launch Of New Album In Liverpool.

Austrian guitar sensation Tom Strasser will be holding the U.K. launch of his new album at Liverpool Acoustic Live on Friday 27th June 2014 at Mathew Street’s View Two Gallery.

Tom Strasser last played in Liverpool in August 2012 and caused FATEA Magazine reviewer Peter Cowley to write “Fabulous stuff – if you ever get the chance to see Tom, do so, because he will blow you away.” Tom is currently touring Europe to promote his new album Second Thoughts and has chosen Liverpool as the place to launch it in the U.K.

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Gods Of Dust And Clay.

The heavy Midnight air still lingers even at 4am,

it shifts and pauses, floats and stops but never moves

far from your door.

Exhaling the drag end of a cheap nasty cigar

and blowing a kiss to the tendrils of mist

that collect at your feet, numbing them ahead

of the perfect summer’s day to come,

you are reminded that

for inside every good man

there is a villain that the public

want to see emerge,

a Captain Hook for their imagination and mouth

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(279 words, estimated 1:07 mins reading time)

Wonder Woman, Volume One: Blood. Graphic Novel Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7/10

If you look at so called Big Two of American comic publishing, then Marvel for some reason has infinitely more heroines in which to glorify than those that live in the D.C. Universe. Even away from Marvel, which seems to have embraced with a lot more heart the reality of women who can hold their own against any of their male counterparts and in many ways are actually far superior to them, after all who would you rather have alongside you in a fight to the death, Susan Storm/Richards or Benjamin Grimm?

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(557 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

British Musical Based On Alan Bennett Favourite, Betty Blue Eyes, Gets Regional Première At The Playhouse.

This summer a 21-strong cast will take to the Playhouse stage for the regional première production of Betty Blue Eyes. The George Stiles and Anthony Drewe musical based on the Alan Bennett film A Private Function played to critical acclaim in the West End in 2011, picking up an Olivier Award nomination for Best New Musical. This updated production marries Alan Bennett’s hilarious story with a wonderfully witty musical score and is at the Playhouse from 9th July to 2nd August.

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House of Suarez Return With The 2014 Vogue Ball.

Prepare to be blasted on a futuristic journey that is truly out of this world, as the fierce and fabulous multi award-winning Vogue Ball returns for its fifth birthday with The Space Oddity. On Saturday 4th October, the Vogue Ball’s new 2014 venue The Rum Warehouse in Liverpool’s historic docklands will be transformed in to an incredible intergalactic Space Station.

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Brian Conley Comes To Liverpool’s Empire Theatre For Stage Spectacular Barnum.

Cameron Mackintosh and Michael Harrison are delighted to announce the national tour of the Cameron Mackintosh and Chichester Festival Theatre smash hit production of the musical BARNUM starring Brian Conley as ‘PT Barnum’ and Linzi Hateley as ‘Chairy’. BARNUM will play the Liverpool Empire from 19th – 23rd May 2015.

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Liverpool Sound And Vision Special: An Interview With Ste Reid From The Mono LPs And Paula Stewart and Lee Burnitt From Tell Tale Theatre.

Music and video used to go hand in hand with each other, especially in the 1980s, where it was expected that a well-made video would give a band or artist a huge lift in sales. For anybody who was getting into music in the early part of the tandem craft, songs such as Ultravox’s Vienna, A-Ha’s Take On Me, Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Two Tribes, Marillion’s Kayleigh and Genesis’ Land of Confusion were as well remembered for their iconic videos as they were for the creative lyrics and supreme music.

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Venus In Fur, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.AC.T. Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric.

Foreign language films in Britain do tend to attract a niche audience but that should not deter any fan of cinema from attending a showing of Director Roman Polanski’s film Venus in Fur.

In the U.K. audiences do tend to be split in the appreciation of a good film that has travelled across the deep waters of the Channel, it is a shame but it does happen. If an exception should be made for a film in the last ten years then Venus in Fur should be top of the pile. For this highly charged, message filled, erotic and electrifying piece of cinema, the limits of enjoyment are only placed by the confines of the mind’s refusal to accept something new and something truly fascinating, even enthralling and most of all completely and wonderfully strange.

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(434 words, estimated 1:44 mins reading time)

Belle, Film Review. Picturehouse@F.A.C.T. Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Cast: Tom Wilkinson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Emily Watson, Sam Reid, Tom Felton, James Norton, Miranda Richardson, Penelope Wilton, Sarah Gadon, Matthew Goode, Lauren Julien-Box, Natasha Williams, Alan McKenna, Timothy Walker, David Gant, Charlotte Roach, Rupert Wickham, Bethan Mary-James, Alana Ramsey, Alex Jennings, Daniel Wilde, Susan Brown, James Northcote, Andrew Woodall, Edmund Short, Christopher Middleton.

Pride meets extremism prejudice in Misan Sagay’s well written script for the film Belle.

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(594 words, estimated 2:23 mins reading time)