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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Karen McCandless reviews the film now showing at the Phoenix and starring Ewen McGreggor.

Folk song celebrates protest

Our review of the Anti-Capitalist Roadshow at the Musician tells of a night of folk music that was inspiring.

Music at the edge

We report on the show that brought to the stage acts that were alternative to the mainstream, in Broken Mic at the Musician.

Digital arts

News and events about the digital arts, are in our page on Digital visual arts in 2012.

Classical music

Our new choral music section features the City of Leicester singers.

See our page of news and reviews for 2011

Music services

New page on services and resources for musicians

Editorial

We now have a new home page for our editorial comments pages.This links to our editorial comments from 2008 to 2012.

Ever wondered what's involved in running a magazine? Gain some insights from The Editor's column.

Columns

Columns are pages where contributors write on a regular basis.

The Editor's column 2012 (pieces about editing and publishing this magazine.)

Mr. Sifter's column 2012 (musings on performing live music in Leicester.)

Live music in Leicester 2011 (writings about the live music scene.)

Gig Chat 2012 (key movers and shakers of the live music scene talking about gigs.)

Gigs diary (a commentary on rock gigs we have attended.)

Backstage 2011 (What happens behind the scenes at live music events.)

Community arts

Our pages about arts in the community have moved to our new Community Arts section.

Health and the arts

The impact of the arts on people's health is covered in Arts and health.

Music and religion

The role of music in religion is consider in our article Music and faith

Digital Arts

Computers, the Internet and mobile phones become media for arts, as find out in Digital arts

The art of ink

How people are using their skin as an artist's canvass, is revealed in The Tattooist's art

Sprayed on art

How art is being prayed on to our streets in Graffiti painting

Business

Can artists make a living? We find out in our feature on How to make a living as an artist

Urban music

Our new section on urban music and hip-hop is up now

Reference, Directories, Listings

Find things in this magazine on our search page

Look it up in our subject index

Find dates and indexes on our listings page

List of all venues, concert halls and theatres in Leicester.

Guide to the main sections of the magazine

The main sections are on the above navigation menu.

Main sections

News

General news about the arts with links to specialist news pages

Feature articles

A guide to substantial articles across all areas of the arts

Comedy

Dates for gigs, reviews of comedy shows, news about comedy, features on comedians.

Literature and poetry

Authors, books, the written word and literature news.

Music Guide

The starting place to access the hundreds of pages we have about all styles and types of music including:

• Bands
• Gigs
• News
• Record reviews
• Reviews
• Singers
• Songs
• Tickets
• Urban
• Videos

Theatre and plays

Reviews, news and previews for plays, drama and shows

Dance

News about dance and dancers, performances, previews and reviews - see our page Dance news 2012

Visual arts

Films, photography, painters, paintings and exhibitions.

These sections contain both current pages for 2012 and previous pages for 2011 and beyond.

Find it

Use our search page to find articles by name or subject

Or see our alphabetical index of all pages

Help

We explain how we are reorganising many of the 500+ pages on this web site for 2012, on our help page.

Other sections

Architecture

The history of Leicester/shire is revealed through its built environment from Roman times to the present day, in our Architecture Section.

Community arts

Our sections reports on arts in the community in Leicester/shire. Community Arts

Arts at the Edge

Tattooing and graffiti are some of the subjects we cover in our section Art at the Edge.

Arts Promotion

We give some ideas on how the arts can be promoted.

Choirs and choral music

We look at some of the choirs of Leicester/shire in our choral section.

Crafts

The crafts people of Leicester/shire and their work is covered in our section on Crafts.

Design

Designers, their work and the creative industries are in our designers section.

Exhibitions

Art exhibitions are reported on in our exhibitions section.

Fashion

Clothes and the people who make them are covered in our Fashion section.

Fringe festival

Find out about the fringe festival in Leicester.

Poetry

Read about poets and their work.

Weekend Supplement

Our Weekend Supplement ran from June through to December 2011. Find lots of stories, news and interviews during the period.

We are looking for an editor to take over this section of the magazine for 2012.

Shows listings

News about arts and entertainment events can be found on our page What's on in Leicester.

A listing of forthcoming concerts, shows and events can be found on our events listing page.

Rock gigs are listed on their own day by day gigs page.

Comedy events are listed on our comedy gig dates page.

Find out where to go over the summer on our Festival dates page.