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A Magazine for Sheffield

Issue 38 May 2011

I reckon we’ve had our summer now. No more hot weather until next year. BBQs in the snow. Paddling pools full of rain.

If that really is the case, we should all be doing some sort of sun dance ahead of Peace in the Park Festival on 4th June. If you have never heard of Sheffield’s most peaceful cultural rendezvous, turn to page 48 sharpish and we’ll let you off. If you have heard of it, you’ll know it is one of the city’s best-loved annual festivals, packed full of song, dance, food, drink and merriment. And that doesn’t even include the evening celebrations. Don’t miss it.

Now Then #38 sports interviews with Media Lens and Mount Kimbie, on top of the usual local and (inter) national pieces, including a Wordlife prose special and the re-emergence of 27b/6.

Come down to the Forum on 8th May to celebrate our third birthday as a magazine, with performances from Bell Hagg Orkestar and Zacc Rogers.

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by Sam Walby (he/him)
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This month's articles

Localcheck May Goings On

The spirit of freedom and equality is blowing through Sheffield's rebellious streets like a summer breeze. It's May, and the season kicks…

Heeley City farm: Green since '81

Going green has become a fashion trend in the last few years, something for celebrities to hitch their star to. Suddenly knobbly shaped…

The venns: Pub Quizzes Explained

QUINT'S AUTO-ETHNOGRAPHY OF PUB QUIZZES. I first breezed through Sheffield from New York on a pen pal visit in 1992, and took two…

27b/6 one girl. twelve cups.

Due to there being an unprecedented twelve coffee cups needing to be cleaned in the sink at work, it is understandable that Shannon would…

Dean Lilleyman. Sam Priestley.

drove it drunk to pitsmoor, missed a bend and bent a lamp-post, ran to my half-sister's bleeding and never got pinched. my father calls…

 drove it drunk to pitsmoor, missed a bend and bent a lamp-post, ran to my
half-sister's bleeding and never got pinched.
 my father calls hi

Martin Machado: Paint what you know

There is something slightly tragic about living in the most landlocked city in the UK and missing the sea daily, but that's the life of a…

Sound Talent in Music.

The other week I overheard a conversation that made me really angry. It went roughly as follows: Man: "I'm just so bored at the minute.…

Filmreel (De)construction.

There's something to be said about an art form that makes you think of another whilst retaining a complete discernment of its own…