Sex Education for the Already Perverted!

Bar Wotever’s Hot August Fringe extravaganza, with Michael Twaits, Sandy Foster, Nathan Dean Williams and Eric Kuhlmann.

The Sentencing of Madonna.

It seems these days that everybody hates Madonna, writes Little Bastard. But do the critics reveal more about their assumptions and prejudices than they do about her?

“It’s an artist’s raison d’être to challenge the political landscape and this has always been a part of Madonna’s work. As her platform gets bigger and the world slowly gets closer to hell in its hand basket, Madonna’s shows have become more intensely political.”

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The Editor writes all about the word Polari, and explains why the magazine is called Polari.

“As a form of slang, it developed as the times required. It made its way into the music halls, where it was picked up by actors, and found its way across the English Channel to the London gay scene.”

Sights and Fragrances!

Polari catches up with Dexter Clark as he winds down his Olympian lecture tour.

“Oscar Pistorius (sporty flick) wanted to come in but unfortunately I had to say no, we’ve just had a new parquet floor fitted and I do hate scratches.”

Looking Back While Looking Forward.

Polari Magazine introduces a new weekly publishing schedule, and the editor writes about the reasons why, and the driving ideas behind it.

“The word magazine is an Arabic term for storehouse. That’s what we are aiming toward.”

Search terms that have led readers to Polari.

It’s madness, and part of Polari’s WTF Friday features. Darren Hayes & superheroes!

“This is our favourite. Google translate reveals: Darren Hayes doll where to buy?.”

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Released June 11, 2012
Heartbreaks and Earthquakes has Charli XCX taking a chainsaw to the pop mainstream.

“The dark and dirty dubstep of opener ‘Champagne Coast’ is as if Charli is hiding behind PopStep starlet Delilah’s door with a chainsaw.”

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Released July 23, 2012
The soundtrack to his feature film of the same name,, iLL Manors is his third studio album and is as startling and brutal as his debut album.

“The album is an opus, where each song is vital and none is more important or better than another, delivered with his usual lyrical recklessness.”

Win Peccadillo Pictures’ North Sea Texas on DVD

Who wrote the book, that North Sea Texas was adapted from?

Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock, Liverpool L3 4BB • June 22 – October 28, 2012

Tate Liverpool, in conjunction with the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, have brought together the later works of Turner, Monet and Twombly for a remarkable exhibition.

“It’s incredible to think that there are only three generations between these artists but, as this show illustrates, all were engaged in a radical reinvention of what painting is; and it’s this experimental energy that is passed on directly between them.”