Zita Whalley - Strange Tourist

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Interviews

Comedian Bridget Christie on her show about ‘everything and nothing’ and not being ‘arsed’ with dating

Award-winning comedian Bridget Christie steps away from issue-based works with her latest latest stand up show Jacket Potato Pizza

Leave Willy's full and contented. Photo: Willy's

Local guides

Review: Willy’s Restaurant ‘A well put together and handsome unit’

Willy’s plates up classic British dishes that are familiar and filling, yet sophisticated

Mercury Rizing, Screaming Alley Photo: Andrew Hasting

Interviews

Screaming Alley’s new members bar “genuinely an invitation” to “shape” performance in Thanet

In the basement of an inclusive barber shop, Ramsgate cabaret company Screaming Alley’s new members bar looks set to become more than just a good night out

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Interviews

What a hoot! Ramsgate illustrator features owls and wolves in life drawing class

More lively than your standard life drawing class, Wild Life Drawing works with models who won’t pose or be still, and are an opportunity to be inspired by the natural world, as founder Jennie Webber explains

Mushrooms are nuts. Photos: Margate Mushrooms

Interviews

Margate Mushroom Festival: ‘All mushrooms are magic’

From zombie fungi and our distant fungus relatives to anticancer properties of white button mushrooms and spiritual rituals, the world of shrooms is bizarre and amazing

From L-R Dalibor's teacher Naomi, Dalibor, Sandra Hampton and Dailbor's siter Bailey at TMS. Photo: Strange Tourist

Interviews

Thanet art studio adapting creative processes for artists with additional needs

"I just like to get to know the person in front of me," says Sandra Hampton from Sandra Art4All studio on working with artists with special needs

Art

The Love Booth: A joyous and intimate glimpse into private moments

See pictures from The Love Booth exhibition and hear our live Q&A with artist Karen Vost

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Interviews

Lou Sanders on everything but her show ahead of Ramsgate tour date

Lou Sanders speaks about her memoir, moving to Margate and begrudgingly about trampolines, but not about her stand-up show No Kissing in the Bingo Hall

A woman stands behind a microphone wearing a bra. She wears a black wig with pigtail lifted up by red rope. Another woman plays saxophone in the background.

Interviews

Ziah Ziah's artistic growth through creative freedom

TKE Studios performance art fellow Keziah Stilwell on creative exploration and shifting artistic gears.

A man and a woman dressed as pirates stand in front of a skull and crossbones, and two crossed swords.

Interviews

New Ramsgate bookshop mines Thanet treasures for literary gain

Plunder bookshop’s Seb Reilly on treasures other than the gold or buried kind

A pile of black and white photo strips from from an old analogue photobooth

Interviews

'Dying breed' photo booth art project brings 'a lot of joy'

Dogs and their owners, people recreating past photographs and a cheeky flash - a lot goes on behind the curtain at Ramsgate community arts project, The Love Booth

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Things to do in Thanet and beyond

In pictures: Anna Boghiguian's The Sunken Boat at Turner Contemporary

Inside the latest exhibition at Margate's Turner Contemporary, and our delightfully off topic conversation with artist Anna Boghiguian

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