Time Out MAGAZINE No 976 1989 features
12 BLUE BELLES
Women now make up just under 11 per cent of the police force. Our extract from Roger Graef s new book, 'Talking Blues', a collection of candid, anonymous interviews with police, reveals the deep-rooted sexism and aggression of the brutal, macho 'canteen culture frustrating their ambitions.
14 CHERRY BLOSSOM
Neneh Cherry, alumnus of Rip Rig And Panic and Float Up CP and author of last year's hit single 'Buffalo Stance', has a new single and album pending. Isabel Appio i plumbs her attitude, energy, 'womanist' philosophy and roots in the musical melting-pot of '70s Ladbroke Grove. .04
16 ARIA CODES
New writers, new scores and new blood are scraping the Verdigris from the traditional face of opera, and an ambitious sixweek international festival, beginning in London next week, is out to convert the masses. Martin Hoyle hums the tunes.
18 WENDY HOUSE
London's House and Garage clubs are under seige from underage ravers hungry to party. With fake IDs they hit the hotspots, bamboozling bouncers and alarming and even bedding hosts. But is there cause for concern? Are they innocents abroad, or merely ahead of their time? Alix Sharkey gets paternal.
20 SQUARE BASHING
Date-line: Leicester Square, Friday and Saturday night. From the ends of the tube lines they pour in to crowd the stews of Soho, looking for the legendary good time, the West End pulse the hobos, bozos. bimbos and poseurs. Brian arse goes with the flow.
23 GOLDEN WONDER
Though Stevie Wonder is coming to London for a series of concerts, his ambitions spread wide beyond music he owns Radio KJLH in Los Angeles, 1993 may see him elected Mayor of Detroit, and his enthusiasm for humanitarian causes is legendary. Bruno Blum interviews him.
25 GRIPES OF ROTH
Actor Tim Roth doesn't get romantic parts: he's played skinhead, human fly, hired killer and the mentally retarded Colin. With two TV plays and films with Greenaway and Altman to come, there's still not a snog in sight apart from with Michael Gambon, that is. Elaine Paterson commiserates.
123 SELL OUT: GYM'LL FIX IT
Health now means wealth: fitness centres of the '80s have hi-tech decor, TVs and telephones, talking weight machines and exotic foods. Tania Alexander and Eva Lewicki look at the trendiest places to shed pounds from your wallet if not your waist.
132 BRIGHTON GUIDE
Continuing our insider's Europe series, and coinciding with the start of its internationally ranking arts festival, author Alexander Stuart sings Brighton's praises, and Nick Tuffey reveals the secrets of the south coast's Regency resort.
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