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This week Sam Gregory has returned to the topic of active travel in South Yorkshire, getting to the bottom of why the region has secured such a small amount of funding for walking and cycling infrastructure. "Because of the 'Hunger Games' style fight for funding, which is almost unique to the UK, major cities like Sheffield receive a sixth of the money they asked for at the same time as Manchester presses ahead with building a world-class active travel network."
Music wise, Steve Hunting interviewed Tom Jarvis of DeAD SHeEP, while Tom Ronan spoke to London-Nottingham band Divorce when they came to Sheffield for Get Together Festival. Speaking of which, Sahar Ghadirian reviewed the third instalment of the city festival.
Film wise, Jamie Hartle has reviewed Ari Aster's latest film, Beau Is Afraid, which he describes as "a mixed bag in extreme ways".
And finally, some housekeeping. We're changing our email address to newsletter@nowthenmagazine.com next week, so make sure you whitelist that address to guarantee we don't fall into your spam. Here's how to do this in some popular email clients.
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South
Yorkshire only received a sixth of the funding for walking and
cycling improvements that it bid for.
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“We are being let down by politicians in South Yorkshire, especially from the Labour Party” |
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A band with a cowboy boot on one foot and Doc Martens on the other, the London-Nottingham four-piece tell us about their songcraft, their plans for the future – and the humour to be found in the mundane.
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After three close calls, I realised there is
something really powerful in talking about death – it doesn’t mean it’s more likely to happen and it’s liberating to take charge of your own leaving party.
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Stuart Gillis, Chief Executive at Heeley City Farm, has announced plans to step down. We wrote about the problems facing the farm back in December and January, including redudancies associated with Gillis's 'rescue plan' for the charity, complaints from staff about a "toxic working environment" and claims that Gillis had told them they were not allowed to apply for grant funding for the organisation. While several staff have lost their jobs, Now Then understands that the farm now has a completely new board of trustees. A Facebook announcement about his departure drew almost unanimous criticism of Gillis, including from former staff. |
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If you're looking for quality, cross-genre gigs, we can't recommend Flying Donkey Events highly enough. Next up from them is dub-reggae legend Mad Professor with vocalist Sister Aisha on Friday 9 June, powered by Sheffield's Sinai Sound System at Crookes Social Club. After that, spiritual jazz from Manchester luminary Matthew Halsall (23 September, Upper Chapel) and an evening with folk royalty Fairport Convention (24 October, Crookes Social). |
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Festival of Debate 2023 has now officially finished, although plenty of the hybrid and online-only events are archived on our Youtube page for your future enjoyment. If you took part in one or more of our events, please take five minutes to fill in our feedback form and, if you can, make a donation to help us sustain the festival. We'll see you next year for another instalment... |
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