Issue 79 October 2014

I love space. I don’t always know exactly what’s going on out there, but I think it’s pretty cool. I know it’s a quirk of human nature to…

Steve arrives on a well-used, well-oiled bicycle. He recently quit smoking roll-ups and, buzzing from a long climb up to Crookes, he chains…

Will Self is one of the most prolific and controversial journalists and writers of the last 25 years. Last month, Shark, the second novel…

Serves 4 Recipe by Street Food Chef Enter any Mexican taquería in California and you'll find carnitas on the menu, usually pork butt (the…

On the edge of a small rocky pool somewhere in the hills above Howden reservoir, I am standing completely naked. Water the ruby brown of…

What Tim Key does is hard to describe in a nutshell, as is often required in short introductions to interviews with people. He is a poet and a comedian, delivering short verse that somehow manages to be simultaneously mundane and larger than life.

We do our best to cover as many bases as we can with artists featured in Now Then, but there’s always the feeling that more traditional…

In 1844, Friedrich Engels wrote that “immorality among young people in Sheffield seems to be more prevalent than anywhere else”. In fact,…

18 September Plug Cate le Bon drops in to Plug to promote her third album, last year's Mug Museum, recorded in LA after her move from west…

"I know we've only just met, but can I have a cigarette?" It'd be pretty much impossible to turn Kate Tempest down, not only because she's…

Bunga Bunga is a group of local independent promoters who have been putting on parties at unconventional spaces across Sheffield for three…

1 November | Town Hall Alt-Sheff always gives a shout out to the annual Peace and Craft Fair, coming round this year on Saturday 1…

1. Being disrobed in a room full of strangers can be traumatic. Casting your mind back to a particularly nice holiday, beloved pet or…

(Tommy Wiseau, USA, 2003) 10 October, 7.30pm | Sheffield University Union Auditorium | £3.50 Written, produced by and starring its…

Architects and designers have become increasingly marginalised in shaping our towns and cities, as have the people who use them. Despite…