Newcastle based artist Rye trousered our Single of the Month slot last month, so I thought you should know a bit more about her. She’s great. As mentioned above, Rye lives in Newcastle but she’s actually from Vilnius in Lithuania where she grew up imme…

Ooh! A 500-year-old lane in Newcastle city centre has been transformed into an urban art gallery. Nice! I’ve cut through Forth Lane near the Central Station on many an occasion, usually stumbling into, or out of, The Forth pub. But now I’ll have cause to …

Given the prescience of the subject matter, this is a disappointingly middlebrow Palestine-set drama from British-Palestinian writer-director Farah Nabulsi. ‘The Blue Kaftan’s’ Saleh Bakri is Basem an English teacher in occupied Palestine. Two of his pupi…