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Remembering Dory Previn (1925 – 2012)

HOT columnist Sean O’Shea remembers Dory Previn n

Posted 11:04 Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013 In: SOS Tags: dory previn, poet, poetry, singer, songwriter, sos

Refusing to “shove off!”

Local people opposing the planned Bexhill Hastings Link Road are not complying with leader of East Sussex County Council Peter Jones’ suggestion that they ‘shove off!’. Groups and individuals approaching the issue from a number of different perspectives continue to use their skills and ingenuity to campaign peacefully on behalf of what they value, writes HOT’s Zelly Restorick.

Posted 10:56 In: Home Ground Tags: Bexhill Hastings Link Road Resistance, Combe Haven Defenders, Corporate Watch, democracy, ESCC, Hastings Alliance, Lewes Town Hall, Peter Jones, public opposition, Sussex Spring, Zelly Restorick

Preservation Sunday umbrella parade. Photo by Rebecca Gracey

In the thick of the Preservation Sunday Umbrella Parade

Preservation Sunday is part of the five-day

Posted 10:27 In: Hastings People Tags: Bevali Francis, Hastings, Hastings Fat Tuesday, labyrinth, mardi gras, Presevation Sunday, Radiator Arts, Rebecca Gracey, St Leonards

A new market for St Leonards?

Central St Leonards Town Team are currently consulting with local traders and residents to plan a new market for the town centre area. HOT journalist, Erica Smith, is also the new Chair of the Town Team and here she tells HOT readers about one of the plans to improve the St Leonards’ shopping experience.

Posted 20:02 Tuesday, Feb 12, 2013 In: Food & Drink Tags: market, St Leonards, Town Team

Umbrella Parade is waterproof

Hastings has more than its fair share of festivals and celebrations. I have never known people more fond of dressing up. So I suppose the idea of Carnival, with all its implications of costume and general malarkey, was irresistible to the locals. Think Venetian masks and gondolas, grotesque masks from Cologne’s Faschingszeit or the swaying floats of Rio, writes enthusiastic spectator Antony Mair.

Posted 18:02 Monday, Feb 11, 2013 In: Hastings People Tags: antony Mair, fat tuesday

Colourful characters

Show Time is at The Stables Art Gallery, The Bourne, Hastings TN34 3BD Mon–Sat 10.30am–2pm and 6–8pm until 30 March.

Posted 17:12 In: Visual Arts Tags: Art and Antiques Police Squad, Hastings, John Lipsham, Lauris Morgan-Griffiths, Modigliani, Portsmouth Dockyards, Royal Society of Marine Artists, Stables Art Gallery

Sally Cole at First Sight Gallery, Hastings Old Town

HOT journalist John Cole reviews an art exhibition that is close to his heart…

Posted 16:56 In: Arts News Tags: Artist, monoprint, monoprinting, painter, print maker, Sally Cole

Last Tango in Hastings : Part One

Hastings tango dancers are becoming a common sight, whether it is along the De la Warr terraces or filling up Hastings Museum at night. There are classes on Sundays and Tuesdays and all sorts of other opportunities. Hastings Tango Club are further honoured by having music specially dedicated to them by Hastings own renowned composer, Polo Piatti, to be played as a World premier at the Hastings Museum Valentine Tango event this Friday 15 February, writes HOT’s Chris Cormack.

Posted 15:17 In: Performance Tags: Harriet Wider, Hastings Museum, Hastings Sinfonia, Jonathan Bruce, Pinta Brava, Polo Piatti, tango