Culture
Joyous end to Rye Arts Festival
Rye Arts Festival ended on October 1 with a joyful production of Don Pasquale. Huge congratulations to all involved
Standing ovation at De La Warr
You can experience PUSH, the emotional story of a little boy who was put on a train to Auschwitz on Saturday October 8 at St Mary's church, Battle
Let’s go to the movies!
This week's top movie is Antoine Fuqua's action-packed remake of western classic The Magnificent Seven, starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio and Peter Sarsgaard. The town of Rose Creek is under threat from industrialist Bartholomew Bogue and the townsfolk hire seven renegades to protect them
Joan Bakewell remembers
"Stop the Clocks" is the title of octogenarian Joan Bakewell’s new book, and she showed us how to do it
Poetry, music and wine at Danny’s
Fun, laughter and friends at Danny's Olde Worlde Wines (first Sunday in the month), and later at the Ypres
Let’s go to the movies!
This week's featured movie is The Girl on the Train - Rachel is devastated by her recent divorce and spends her daily commute fantasising about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds
Busy time at the Arts Festival
Rye News in-house culture vulture Heidi Foster discusses a few of her own personal highlights during the two weeks of the Rye Arts Festival
A community opera, a true story
A true story of hope, redemption and forgiveness, I feel the opera of the year by a community company
Arts Festival builds to climax
The Rye Arts Festival is entering its last couple of days, but it will end with a bang, minature engraving and a Colombian harp
Some enchanted evening
Iden Church was the venue for an evening with the Perfect Fifth. Melodies, comedy, light opera - it had it all
Blues open second week
The second week of Rye Arts Festival starts with some Saharan blues - and ends with opera - but with a wide variety of events in between