Innholdsfortegnelse for 19-10-20 i The Big Issue

EXHIBITION Ray Harryhausen – Titan of Cinema For kids of the 1950s through 1980s, the unique terror of special e›fects pioneer Ray Harryhausen’s creepy-jerky stop-motion creations – from a snake-haired medusa to a snarling cyclops, a vengeful metal giant and sword-wielding skeleton soldiers – is burned in the memory. The largest exhibition of his archive ever seen features original models and drawings plus restored and previously unseen footage. Take a look, if you dare. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, opens October 24; nationalgalleries.org FILM Great success! Borat Subsequent Moviefilm hits home streaming A sex-obsessed buffoon with prehistoric attitudes and an uncertain grasp of the English language has been let loose on America, and with the presidential election looming on November 3, he needs to be stopped. But enough…

I was a rather fearful child. Spending my childhood summers in Japan, I remember with fondness the days were filled with lazy heat, the buzz of cicadas, cycling the precarious edges of rice fields with my cousins, the thick slices of watermelon handed out by my grandmother. But at night, there was something about the old and sprawling house that filled me with dread. I imagined a sinister presence in the unused rooms upstairs, lurking amidst a labyrinth of hoarded junk and family heirlooms. Every midnight venture to the bathroom was carried out with a pounding heart and bare feet sticky and swift against floorboards. For that fearful child to have grown up to direct a horror film is a surprise even to myself. More than a decade later, when…

Catch22 supports people build up resilience and aspiration. A new RORA member, they set out how to cope with confusing and self-defeating situations. The person who needs work experience to get hired, but needs a job to fund work experience. The young o›fender who wants to escape violence but only feels safe by carrying a knife. The need to keep young people digitally connected, but the dangers of their growing exposure to online harms. These situations are all catch-22s whereby the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem. While our organisation has been helping to solve social problems for over 200 years, our name is still relatively new. The services Catch22 provide illustrate that it’s often the system that creates the problem for the person or…

We’re entering the period when Hollywood studios traditionally unleash their biggest blockbusters. In recent years, Star Wars, Harry Potter, its Fantastic Beasts spin-o›f and whatever superhero was taking their turn to save the world have reigned supreme at the box office. But in changed and continually changing times, cinema is suffering. Smaller audiences due to the pandemic mean films are pushed back, which means fewer people are going to the cinemas, which means fewer films are released, and so on in a sad cycle that has resulted in most chains either shutting completely or operating limited hours. Cinema needs a hero more than ever, so it’s ironic that it was the delay of 007’s 25th outing, No Time To Die, originally pushed from last April to November to next April…

Too many late-night DJ gigs have shot my memory to pieces, but if you pull a record from my shelves I can usually tell you exactly where I was and how I felt when I first heard it. Blue Note albums are an exception; somehow it seems like they’ve always been there. It’s hard to picture a world without Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Herbie Hancock and those other names that have become synonymous with jazz as we know it. But to think of Blue Note as a heritage label, still balanced on the shoulders of these giants, is an underestimation. It’s still on the same unwavering creative trajectory it set in motion over 80 years ago. Blue Note Records was founded in New York in 1939 by two German-Jewish immigrants,…

We instinctively know that walking is good for us and it is important to plan and prepare calmly to get the most out of its holistic benefits . Many people enjoy walking as a gentle exercising of the body and mind but some others like to take their walking a step further and create a more sport-like pastime. Strolling along a smooth flat surface can be almost e›fortless, bringing a tranquillity, but when the terrain starts to take on more challenging and tiresome undulations and tricky foot placements, then can we still maintain the same sense of satisfaction? Yes, is the answer, if done in a manner appropriate to our own abilities and character. The mind and the body operate in unison and follow each other. If we walk uphill…

THE FINAL BOW Seven months ago these cruise ships were packed with tourists. Today, they are being broken up for scrap at the Aliaga ship-breaking yard in the Aegean port city of Izmir, western Turkey. That is how fast the industry has floundered. Most of the boats in this picture belonged to the Carnival Cruise Line, including the Fantasy, Imagination and Inspiration, all weighing over 70,000 tonnes. Each ship carried over 2,000 passengers and almost 1,000 crew members on 14 decks. They were registered in the Bahamas and took passengers on week-long jaunts around the Caribbean. The cabins, pools and all-you-can-eat restaurants were where holiday of a lifetime dreams came true for thousands of people each week. Now there is only a nightmare for the sunken tourist trade. All the…

Marcus Rashford MBE has changed the game when it comes to fighting to feed kids in poverty. Last week he moved things along with a petition to #endfoodpoverty, demanding an expansion of access to free school dinners and plugging the holiday hunger gap. The star striker also knows the best place to get his news, sharing The Big Issue’s coverage of the latest food poverty figures to his 3.4 million followers. Elsewhere, fed-up football fans in Newcastle have donated thousands of pounds to food banks in protest at “brazen” new charges introduced by the Premier League. The NUFC Fans Food Bank asked Newcastle United supporters to donate to a food bank instead of paying a new £14.95 pay-per-view fee to watch games on Sky Sports or BT Sport, charged on…

What a year it has been. And it’s not over yet. What we need more than ever is a brilliantly bright and festive feelgood cover to lift the spirits of all who see it and help our vendors sell more magazines in the run up to Christmas. So are you a wonderfully creative kid? Or do you know a budding young artist? Perhaps you organise activities for children or teach a class of talented individuals. If so we want to get you involved. Since we first launched our kids cover competition seven years ago we have had thousands of amazing creations from young people across the country and we know we’ll be blown away by your creations again. Last year’s theme was Together, and the winning design was sent by…

It’s no secret that people have found escape and solace in their gardens this year. Across the UK, lawns have never been neater, weeds never scarcer. If we were fortunate enough to have a garden of our own, lockdown gave us a fresh appreciation for that private pocket of nature, a window through which we could view the wider world as we spent – and continue to spend – more time closer to home. It was no different for Dixie Egerickx. The 14-year-old stars as Mary Lennox in a new adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s the perennial children’s tale The Secret Garden, from the team behind the Harry Potter and Paddington films. “I’m pretty lucky that we have a nice big garden at home,” she says. “And obviously, even though…

For the first time ever, taking a walk around a video game city offers a more immersive experience than going to a real one in this strange moment in time. Sprawling, bustling metropolises have bordered on ghost towns for most of the year and now that Covid-19 restrictions are intensifying again, footfall remains reduced. Instead, we know that people have journeyed to virtual cities instead – with video games prospering throughout lockdown. PC games marketplace Steam has repeatedly smashed its own player records, while physical game sales tripled in the UK before it went into lockdown in March. The many hours that players spent in Grand Theft Auto V’s Los Angeles’ stand-in Los Santos or the Yakuza series’ fictional Tokyo district Kamurocho harked back to an almost forgotten memory of…

@bigissue @perfectlyasc Just saw this @PaddingtonStaPR. What a talented artist @BigIssue #johncahill @carogoodall After #stayinghome for a week, I popped out for a shop and a copy of @bigissueuk with its latest cover star #BrianCox! I still can’t believe my film @thebayofsilence is out and featured in print! If you have a chance, go out (safely!) and buy a copy and to support all the incredible work #TheBigIssue does to help dismantle poverty and read about Brian, #Succession and my #producer/#screenwriter debut. @DenisMacShane Real treat to see @BigIssue on sale properly again. Some great features in this one. @nbdogs_shop We love the latest edition of @bigissueuk, especially so with a wee mention of how awesome dogs are. Did you know, scientists in Finland have found sniffer dogs can detect Covid-19…

Anj Soane Ace! It was a year ago today I saw his show, chatted to him about Idles and gave him my scum badge. James Ellis My favourite comedian likes my favourite band. I am complete. Tam Johnstone Love this, two of my fave things, Idles and Stewart Lee! Arthur Porohnavi I love how deep these interviews are getting....miles away from typical pop star interview flu›f. Martin Rancid Punx Great chat/piece. Got tickets to see them both next year, fingers crossed. @LauraMa82162322 Snowflake oi – best description ever! So called snowflakes are the most courageous people! F you if we like a latte on our bikes ! Janine Taylor Super. Had a chat with a vendor yesterday. Lovely chap called Nick and he’d fallen on hard times and had his…

Some of Britain’s best artists have joined forces with The Big Issue to produce an incredible collection of exclusive, unique creations. Their work is highly sought after from collectors around the world, ordinarily selling for tens of thousands of pounds, but these pieces have been generously donated to The Big Issue and will be auctioned off to support the magazine’s vendors by The Auction Collective on November 4. The Big Art Auction is a collaboration between The Big Issue Group and Creative Giants, and has been made possible by a donation from Fender of a collection of iconic Stratocaster guitars. The nine artists who have customized the iconic instruments are: Gavin Turk, Goldie, Bran Symondson, Lauren Baker, Vhils, Joe Rush, Jamie Reid, Rugman and Joana Vasconcelos. Goldie said: “Such an…

Can Covid live on surfaces for 28 days? HOW IT WAS TOLD As with many aspects of the virus, the question of whether Covid-19 can live on surfaces and infect other people has been one that has evolved throughout the global pandemic. It is a question with an answer that has changed as our scientific knowledge of how the virus spreads has improved. Back in March, media reports suggesting that the coronavirus could be passed on via banknotes were denied by the World Health Organisation, and from there the research has intensified. There have been studies that have suggested that UV light kills off the virus, while last week it was suggested that it could stick around on surfaces for up to four weeks. The study by the Commonwealth Scientific…

“I'm not a huge horror fan. I don't really like being scared just for the sake of it.” Wunmi Mosaku may speak for millions of us when she professes not to be a diehard horror fan. But, with starring roles in HBO global smash Lovecraft Country and in Netflix’s new psychological horror His House, the debut film from Remi Weekes, it’s safe to say that Mosaku is a convert. Relic , the directorial debut from Natalie Erika James, lands in cinemas this week, with Emily Mortimer starring in a psychological horror that allows us to look at the slow, creeping horror of dementia through a new lens [see page 21 for more]. Meanwhile, Saint Maud has been heaven sent for our beleaguered cinemas. Another debut, this time from Rose Glass,…

My landlord isn’t giving me six months’ notice of eviction It depends on the reason for eviction. If you have rent arrears of more than six months, your landlord is only required to give you four weeks’ notice. And if you’re facing eviction for antisocial behaviour, current legislation means you can receive little or no notice. If you have received a Section 21 ‘no fault’ eviction notice, you could still face eviction before spring next year if you got a valid notice before August 29, and/or if your landlord started court action before or during the ban. Landlords must now provide information about how tenants have been impacted by Covid-19 if they pursue an eviction through the courts, while tenants can give details on a defence form. If you’re a…

I’ve probably mentioned this several thousand times before, but my main regret in life is that I gave my Sex and the City DVD boxset to the charity shop. Since then, I frequently sit at my laptop next to an open window, smoking a Marlboro Light and asking myself: ‘Can a series about four cardboard cut-out women in New York in the 2000s really be a central pillar of female self-care and mental wellbeing in the 21st century?’ Then I write a column about it and get paid loads of money to spend on quilted Chanel bags. (Ha ha, obviously that bit is made up). Turns out that watching the SATC gals is a warm bath of nostalgia so relaxing that I feel like I always need them on tap.…