Interviews

FABIEN FRANKLE for Man About Town

Premiering in August, with billboards and fanfare littered across the globe, House of the Dragon hit our screens to rave reviews, promising to launch many cast members – including Fabien Frankel – into stardom.

DARYL McCORMACK for Wonderland

CH: Your character, Leo Grande, is really fleshed out as well. What did you think about him? DM: There’s a level of sensitivity to Leo that I also have. Leo has given his life to his vocation. That sensitivity was something that Sophie [Hyde] was looking for in the actor who plays Leo.

ELIAS KACAVAS for Man About Town

Full disclosure, Kacavas gets around 15 minutes of screentime in Euphoria. But no one can deny the screentime packs a punch. Young Cal’s storyline follows a typical high school heartthrob and star wrestler. Cal’s got the talent. He’s got the girl, the best friend. Except it turns out he’s in love with his best friend? Then his girlfriend gets pregnant. It’s a heartbreaking whirlwind of an opening sequence.

We three Dings: how a small-town burger bar beat the pandemic odds

** Unpublished Article ** The terms 'pop-up restaurant' and 'small town in the north-east of England' are rarely used together to describe a successful business venture. Throw a pandemic-induced lockdown into the mixture and success appears even less likely. But for Ding, a pop-up burger bar in Hartlepool, success was part of the recipe.

Is it natural to grieve over lost possessions?

Floating in the North Sea, I recall a feeling of tranquillity as I watched a golden sunset glint across the waves. I was ice swimming with friends, a sport that reaps benefits like living longer and combatting depression. As I’d spent most of 2020 enduring the stress of job hunting in a pandemic, the icy plunge felt like a needed change of pace. For a moment, everything was right in the world. That was, until the most precious thing I owned sank to the sea floor - never to be seen again.

Interview: Picture Books, Polar Bears, and Self-Publishing

... They created a book about a clumsy polar bear named Mard, for their friend’s 21st birthday. From self-teaching the InDesign process, to deciding which tales to include, the pair transformed an inside joke into a physical picture book, and then into a self-published product, available for purchase. Today, I ask them about this process.