Articles by Kate Lucas
Summer Holiday Special 2025!
SUMMER IS FINALLY HERE! This Summer holiday we have a range of different events, activities and things to do to entertain everyone! Get your sunglasses, shorts and sun hats at the ready! Dates: Friday 11th July - Sunday 14th September - Lions at Large – A fun, free, family event Find out more. Dates: 23 Jul 2025 - Dinosaur Adventure Live: The Big Jurassic Storm - Roses Theatre Find out more. Dates: Saturday 26th July 2025 - Retrospective of 80s presents Martin Kemp (DJ set) Find out more.
Escape to the country: considerations when buying rural property
As a result of the covid lockdowns between 2020 and 2021, and the rise in the number of people being able to work from home, demand for properties in the countryside increased as homeowners took the opportunity to escape to the country. Although demand has subsided slightly as many people return to office working (or hybrid working), many buyers are still looking to invest in rural property.
Ep. 19 Experts in the Field: Farm businesses - planning for success in an uncertain market
Click here to listen to the audio In our latest episode, our experts provide insight into the pressures that are currently facing the agricultural industry and discuss how current farmers and new entrants can overcome these challenges through detailed business planning. The Farms, Estates and Rural Land team at Foot Anstey bring you the next episode of the firm's popular podcast series which provides insights and practical advice on important issues for agriculture and rural business.
Farm businesses - planning for success in an uncertain market
It is widely recognised that agriculture is typically a high-risk endeavour, with farmers frequently having to cope with and manage a range of challenges and uncertainties. These issues can discourage new entrants into farming as well as making it difficult for already established farming businesses to plan for the future.
2023 Chapbook Contest Winners — CutBank Literary Magazine
Heart of the Lonesome Galaxy by Kate Lucas “In the human sphere, we are addicted to stories, which is to say to the notion that cause and effect exist and function as expected and somehow make meaning or at least explanation. Kate Lucas’s luminous poems search high and low, but mostly very high indeed, across space and time, for story, explanation, meaning. They apply the rules of one realm to the actions of another in a kind of stubborn hope and persistence.
Best Baked Pork Chops
Best Baked Pork Chops This easy pork chop recipe is made in the oven without any frying or marinating. The baked chops turn out incredibly flavorful and juicy. Submitted by Kate Lucas Updated on September 22, 2026
New U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Laws and Sanctions Advisory Impose Compliance Obligations on Art Market
In recent years, law enforcement agencies around the world have increasingly focused their attention on the use of high-value art and antiquities sales in schemes to evade sanctions, launder money, and even finance terrorism. And last summer, a bipartisan report by a U.S. Senate Subcommittee documented the circumvention of anti-money laundering measures and sanctions in the art market.
Rambling on about “Onward”
GRAPHIC BY RIEL WHITTLE / THE FLAT HAT Let’s talk about the new Pixar movie, which I liked best or maybe second-best (Coco is also pretty good) of all the recent releases from the animation studio, but which still doesn’t really hold a candle to the ones we used to watch as kids (because how could anything compare?). I’m slightly biased against the new movies, but I play Dungeons & Dragons for four hours every week, so here’s my inevitable review of Onward.
A terrifying new take on “The Invisible Man” from the creator of “Saw” and “Upgrade”
GRAPHIC BY RIEL WHITTLE / THE FLAT HAT Leigh Whannell, the Australian screenwriter behind such horror staples as “Saw” and “Insidious,” and more recently one of my favorite sci-fi thrillers, “Upgrade,” has combined his genre talents to create “The Invisible Man.” It follows a woman who escapes an abusive relationship and goes into hiding at a friend’s house.
“Little Monsters” makes me wonder if kindergarteners are emotionally ready for the apocalypse.
GRAPHIC BY RIEL WHITTLE / THE FLAT HAT No, not the “Little Monsters” with Fred Savage and Howie Mandel! Recently, it’s been unnervingly easy to imagine that the apocalypse has fallen upon us. While we’re stocking our carts with toilet paper, the looming pressure to leave the store as soon as possible or risk sickness makes us feel like a character from “Dawn of the Dead” trying to skim the bottom floor of the shopping mall without getting zombified.
The drums, the language barrier, and other things I attacked in Japan
Graphic by Kayla Payne / The Flat Hat The most valuable thing I did in Japan was attempt to be a normal college student. They encouraged us “ryuugakusei” (exchange students) to join clubs on campus, as many Japanese students enjoyed club activities after class, a range of “bu” (clubs), “saakuru” (circles) and “ai” (interest groups). Used to being in four to seven clubs at a time at the College of William and Mary, I was shocked at the notion that most students in Japan would only engage in one.
Well, “Cats” is an utter nightmare.
GRAPHIC BY RIEL WHITTLE / THE FLAT HAT It hurts me to dignify “Cats” with a review. But I paid money to see it (already drunk), and paid more money to drink during the movie (because I was still too sober to enjoy it), and I ended up with many more smudgy, loopy, difficult-to-decipher notes than I expected. Drunk me clearly felt the need to remember what I found worth criticizing about this movie, so I think I have to confront this monstrosity one last time to make it all worth it.
I’m offended on behalf of everyone who read “The Goldfinch.”
GRAPHIC BY RIEL WHITTLE / THE FLAT HAT I apologize for being so late to the party on this one, but apparently, I’m not the only person who didn’t go see “The Goldfinch” in theaters. 100 million dollars sunk into a movie that has grossed less than 10 percent of its exorbitant budget to date — it was a flop in the purest sense of the word. I’m not sure if I can say anything that the critics who ripped this movie to shreds months ago haven’t already said, but here’s my take.
The Last Jedi Rebuttal
On New Year’s Eve, I went to a party and argued about Star Wars with a guy from my high school. We were standing in a big circle, he and I and a few of our other friends, talking about pretty much the only thing left for estranged classmates to bond over. I didn’t know him very well; he’d been a friend of a friend. But his take on The Last Jedi was as follows: “I hated it.
The “Rocky Horror” Rant
It’s not a movie you decide to watch while browsing IMdB or Rotten Tomatoes, but something you learn about through friends or when you’re trying to decipher an obscure reference made in one of your favorite television shows. It’s not a link you click on to appreciate the well-crafted plot or ingenious set design, but a production you see played out before you by dedicated fans, lip-syncing in their corsets and fishnets while the audience talks over the actors.
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