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This is one of the times of year that I am particularly made to notice how bad I am at being a woman. I am ...
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I Think We Eat Wrong
I think we eat wrong. I don’t just mean the actual food, which is often bad enough – destroying our world, local culture, local industry ... -
English As A Foreign Language
I like to think I’m quite good at English. At least, I should be – I’ve practiced enough. While other little children were outside, hanging ... -
London Horror Festival 2011
Despite Halloween season being well over (every day the sleigh bells ring just a little bit harder), there’s still plenty of time to catch a ... -
Shows of London
In the last month I have paid good money to see a two-foot-high furry puppet without a face doing an interpretive dance to Kate Bush’s ... -
Last Night A Speed Date Changed My Life
It had been nearly six months of telling my cousin that I would be his wing-woman on a random escapade to either find him a ... -
Arts & Culture, Travel&Lifestyle
Your Possessions Will Possess You
Your possessions are alive, and they’re coming for you. While we know that the love we give our pets is returned (unless they’re cats), we ... -
Arts & Culture, Travel&Lifestyle
Fangs Out
“Are you looking for the Secret Vampire Club too?” It’s not often that I get approached by two scantily clad blondes, gussied up in stockings ... -
Exhibition: Grayson Perry—Never “Normal” or “Nice”
Grayson Perry’s art was never going to be ‘normal’ or ‘nice’. He is a transvestite whose alter ego, Claire, likes to dress up in dolly ... -
The Frieze Art Fair
The first public day of the Frieze Art Fair was, as always, brimming with art enthusiasts, spectators and London’s cream of the crop. A long, ... -
The Only Way Is Essex
Before we begin, I ought to make this clear: I am an Essex girl. Recently, there’s been a great surge of interest in my home ... -
Raindance: Film Reviews and Winners
Last week I attended the 19th Raindance Film Festival in London, watching six films out of the 12 days. Looking back, I wish I had ... -
The 19th Raindance Film Festival
Arriving just in time to metaphorically quell London’s heatwave, the 19th Raindance Film Festival runs from the 28th September to the 9th October this year. ... -
Preview: London Storytelling Festival 2011
London’s first Storytelling Festival launches on Saturday (1st October), and promises to celebrate the collaborative exchange of tales through a diverse series of events hosted ... -
Trip to Amsterdam
Government laws in Amsterdam have been rife with talks of shutting down its notorious coffee shops and phasing out the sales of marijuana to tourists ... -
The Best Days Of Your Life
September is a month of change. We trade in our flimsy, summer wardrobes for their warmer, wintry counterparts, the leaves begin to turn and the ... -
Art Installation: Ryan Gander’s Locked Room Scenario
A journalist, two French exchange students, a Time Out Magazine reader and a couple are standing in the concrete yard of what looks like a ... -
Maladies on the London Underground
The Roman philosopher Lucius Seneca said, “Disease is not of the body but of the place.” He must have been thinking of the Underground. But ... -
Exhibition: Lee Friedlander: America by Car & The New Cars 1964
Lee Friedlander is a Washington born photographer whose unique compositional vision has consistently won great acclaim over the past five decades. A new exhibition at ... -
Once Upon a Wartime at the Imperial War Museum
It’s the first time I’ve been to the Imperial War Museum since I was 11 and I’m a bit disorientated, so I ask a member ...