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Assembly Hall theatre, Tunbridge Wells Heartfelt two-act show revels in the manic, painful and sometimes amusing fallout of recovering from alcoholism Has the advent of trauma-comedy been a boon to standup, broadening its emotional range? Or has it, as the sceptics argue, replaced tears of laughter with tears of sympathy? Ill meet those sceptics halfway

Monocled Man are Jamie Cullum trumpeter, Fringe Magnetic leader and Loop Collective member Rory Simmons, with Troyka's Chris Montague on guitar, and Kairos 4Tet drummer Jon Scott a creative young UK threesome here performing nine Simmons originals that reflect New York's jump-cut downtown methods, crunching rock, jazzy dirges, and occasionally the dreaminess of the

It seems that body consciousness among young women has taken its most darkly worrying turn yet. Gynaecologists warned this week that cosmetic labial reduction requests have increased dramatically over the past five years, a trend driven partly by the images in pornography.

Since the 1950s, Marin county waters have been home to a community of mariners. Now local authorities say they have to leave For decades, a group known as the anchor-outs enjoyed a relatively peaceful existence in a corner of the San Francisco Bay. The mariners carved out an affordable, bohemian community on the water, in

Stories are lived in bodies, and made in them, and these books from memoir to fiction, poetry and beyond illuminate a central part of human experience In some ways, every book is about the body. No one lives apart from theirs, and so no writer, speaker or character exists fully removed from the