Talking Shop

So much more than a small seafront shop, the Full Moon Revolution on White Rock does sell intricate and colourful handmade kilim rugs created by Kurdish women in Iraq, but is also a community space and a centre for social impact.

‘This is just like any other salon’ I think to myself as I trot through the door… scissors snipping, clippers clipping, background chit chat and the underlying hum of hairdryers… but then I notice a member of staff is wearing ear defenders, and one of the little clients is what I can only describe as ‘butt-scooting’ across the floor with glee. I’ve booked into Tails of St Leonards, a local destination for pampered pets, and which this little Shih Tzu evidently thinks is the h

The salon may have opened in its current iteration on Queens Road in July 2022, but the minds behind Yard & Quarter came together long before that. The desire to open a salon that embraced sustainable principles was important to James and Renee from the beginning.

Words by Ruth McLeod In 2015, Mark Caffrey’s close friend asked him, out of the blue, to be the celebrant at her wedding. “I didn’t even...

As my lemon and ginger tea cools on the table beside me and my interviewees get situated, I look around the space. I’d never been inside Afri-Co-Lab before, and it’s so much more than I’d imagined.

Vinyl records are cumbersome. They’re delicate and are susceptible to warping in the heat. They can be annoying to flip over. But they’re also perhaps the only piece of media technology that has remained unchanged in 75 years, when the first mass-produced 33rpm disc was manufactured for Columbia Records in 1948.