Culture

The first Rye International Film Festival was voted a success. Here are some of the highlights.

The Mayor says thank you with music and wine......

If you feel the need to get and do something over the festive season, why not find out what is under Winchelsea - and why Spike Milligan is buried there?

Strange sounds came from the museum in East Street. Was it a ghost? Could it be paranormal activity? Or was it just a dickens of a celebration?

May the Force be with you! Star Wars returns to the big screen this week.

This week's featured movie showing at the Kino is Carol, staring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara (pictured) set in 1950s New York. A young woman working in a department store falls for an older woman trapped in a loveless but convenient marriage. What follows is a beautiful love story with complicated consequences . . .

Rye's first international film festival arrives this weekend. We review the coming events

Lamb House entertained once again, with its annual Christmas performance. Did it meet our 'great expectations'? John Minter reviews

Excerpts from a new Rye-based opera were shown at the Town Hall. Our Arts Correspondent was there to check it out

Rye Singers perform again and soon they will be keeping warm by candelight. Find out more . . .

A wall clock dated 1874 has made a return journey to the very shop in the High Street from which it was first sold. But how and what is its history?

Some, but not all, of our local artists can be found near the sea, and the Avocet Gallery near Rye Harbour and the nature reserve is worth a flying visit pre-Christmas