Stockists 2013

By Darren Atwater
4047 days ago

Today is national Alfred Hitchcock Day

Today is National Alfred Hitchcock Day. Well, according to Fangoria magazine it is.

Waltham Foresters, however, could call everyday Hitchcock day. Campaigners have been working to turn the old EMD Cinema on Hoe Street into the director’s shrine for years now.

Visitors can drink at the Alfred Hitchcock pub or stay the night, or forever, at the attached Sir Alfred Hitchcock Hotel

But knowledgeable Leytoners know that Hitchcock preferred the Drum on Lea Bridge Road and The Rose & Crown on Hoe Street.

Guardian & Telegraph claim town is divorce happy, don't know online divorce firm operates there

Yesterday, The Guardian proclaimed Weston-Super-Mare as the divorce capital of the UK, noting that ‘Some 2,447 divorce petitions were lodged in the coastal town of just 80,000 people last year.’

Today, wiggy Telegraph Cristina Odone wonders ‘maybe it’s something in the water; or maybe it’s about living in a small town, where everyone knows each other’s business and sleeps with each other’s spouse.’ She wants mediation to save everyone’s soul from the sin of divorce.

Neither newspaper noted that divorce factory Divorce-Online.co.uk sends most of its divorce cases to the town.

Weston is not a divorce hotspot. I am the MD of online Divorce company Divorce-Online.co.uk. We send all our managed cases to Weston. 95% of their divorce cases come from our firm and we are based in Swindon with clients from all over the UK. Has anyone bothered ringing the court to ask why this is happening? (Mark Keenan)

Recommended: Welsh language play Saer Doliau at the Finborough Theatre

Saer Doliau, the play currently being performed in Welsh at the Finborough Theatre near Earl’s Court, is a novel experience for the English speaking viewer, and one I’d recommend.

The novelties are beguiling enough: the three actors trade their lines in a language whose sounds, let alone words, are utterly foreign to the English ear. Surtitles above the tiny performing area provide the translation. But the greatest pleasure of the watching is not in the novelties, diverting though they are, but in the dramatic force of the play itself. A rural Welsh craftsman fights against the forces of progress. Can he ever hope to win? It’s tightly constructed, well performed, and thoroughly satisfying. A rare welsh bit of theatre, all round.

Runs to 19 Feb 2013, details here.

And for more details on the background to the performance and the play, read our in depth interview with one of its actors Steffan Donnelly.

Welcome Snipe's new music editor and to our new fake office

Snipe is very pleased to announce the appointment of Tom Jenkins as music editor. Tom has been Deputy Music Editor for the past year, and editor in charge of MPFrees.

Email MP3s, invitations, interview entreaties to Tom at music@snipelondon.com

Calendar items should still be emailled to listings@snipelondon.com

Snipe thanks 2010 RoTD Best Editor nominee John Rogers for guiding the section for the past three years. John, who is stepping down to take care of his growing business, wil continue as a contributor to Snipe, where he’ll be called Music Editor Emeritus or At-Large or something.

Snipe has also moved its fake office. The old fake office, in a mailbox centre in Soho, has to suddenly move because the mailbox centre is suddenly moving.

The new fake office is now is Shoreditch, which should make everyone relax just a little bit.

The new address:

SNIPE
152 City Road,
London
EC1V 2NX

Of course, this is just another mailbox centre, so please don’t drop by and explain to the guy behind the counter why you had to put aluminium sheets over your windows of your flat in Islington because the people across the street were shooting some-sort-of-ray and Snipe is exactly the type of magazine that would not be scared to run that story, don’t you think?. Again.

Also, please do not send CDs. We just toss them. You want music coverage, go bug Tom by email.

Baby, it's cold outside - so let St. Mungo's know if you see someone sleeping rough

Photo: Greenwich Park in the Snow by Paul Wilkinson

St Mungos, the support charity for homeless persons has opened additional shelters for the cold weather.

They’re asking for Londoners (and Bristolians and Readingites) to let them know if you see people sleeping rough in the Winter weather so they can send out an outreach team.

Phone 0870 3833333
Email [email protected]

Or call an ambulance or the police at 999 if a life is threatened.

And kicking in £25 to St Mungos wouldn’t be amiss, either.

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