Culture

Yes! Legendary 70s prog-rock star Rick Wakeman kicks off a series of very special December concerts from Rye International Jazz & Blues Festival at St Mary's church

Deepwater Horizon, the BP oil rig that blew out in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, gets the Hollywood disaster-movie treatment with Mark Wahlberg as the engineer trying to deal with tragedy and John Malkovich as BP's corporate villain

Rye Arts Festival ended on October 1 with a joyful production of Don Pasquale. Huge congratulations to all involved

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

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

"Stop the Clocks" is the title of octogenarian Joan Bakewell’s new book, and she showed us how to do it

Fun, laughter and friends at Danny's Olde Worlde Wines (first Sunday in the month), and later at the Ypres

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

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 true story of hope, redemption and forgiveness, I feel the opera of the year by a community company

The Rye Arts Festival is entering its last couple of days, but it will end with a bang, minature engraving and a Colombian harp

An evening of pure magic from a world class duo