John Maguire

My Mummy is a Monster, My Children are Monsters, perhaps two phrases that are being used increasingly as we enter the Xth…

The underground theatre scene in Liverpool is currently thriving, with lots of weird and wonderful work being produced and tried out. 81…

Ten years ago today, I sat up in bed with a cup of tea and the laptop, messing around with WordPress. In…

Clothes do maketh the person. We are all ourselves, essentially a blank canvas to broadcast to the outside world our beliefs and…

The Edinburgh Festival is a carnival of creatives. A buzzing experience that I have to undertake every year. I have seen some…

We love street art and anything that really makes the environment a brighter place to be. Illustrator Aaron Givens recently won a…

What an entrance! As you approach The Bluecoat to visit its latest art exhibition – In the Peaceful Dome – the limn of…

I hate shopping. I really cannot stand milling around shiny displays, being subliminally brain-washed into believing that certain objects will enhance my…

It seems every time I look at the ever-flowing social media stream, I am alerted to the death of somebody in the…

Sexy self-help I have always thought the term, ‘self-help’ in the book sections sounds dirty. A sub-genre of a kink in pornography.…