Cities are challenging: to live in and to define. They are each a unique life form constructed from many smaller ones. For some they are amazing, baffling or frustrating, particularly ...
If you love literary supperclubs, make sure you make it to this one. There’s sure to be chocolates galore, for those of you with a sweet tooth, though I’m sure ...
The word “maze” usually conjures up images of verdant hedges perfectly pruned into sinuous shapes, but this is not true of the maze with the punning title, aMAZEme, at the ...
The second International Alternative Press festival, a celebration of creative exchange and self-publishing, came to an emphatic close last weekend. The fortnight had kicked off with eleven exhibitions dotted around Bloomsbury ...
Summer Exhibition 2012 Royal Academy of Arts, 04 – 12 August 2012 The Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition is the largest open contemporary art exhibition in the world, drawing together a ...
Two poetry events you should try to catch at the Southbank this summer: The Poetry Takeaway 26 June – 1 July 2012; 12:00-5:00 p.m. everyday You won’t be getting any ...
Aslan apple and almond slice, Fluffy Lucy lemon tart, Peter and the Professor peach tiramisu, white raspberry witches hat, Brownie wardrobe to Narnia… If you were mesmerised by C. S. Lewis’ ...
The Stoke Newington Literary Festival, which has been running since 2010, is distinguished from other literary festivals by its eclectic programme. It carries the expectations of its place on its ...
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre May – September 2012 Celebrating its 80th Anniversary in 2012, the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has become a London landmark and a firm fixture ...
Ways With Words has been running festivals of words and ideas for over 20 years across the UK in Devon, Suffolk, Cumbria, and in Italy and France. This May, it ...
The seriously stylish department store, Selfridges, has opened their very own pop-up library until March 1st. The 15,000-book library set up in the UltraLounge space in the basement area of ...
David Kohn Architects and the conceptual artist and sculptor, Fiona Banner, have designed a rather odd one bedroom installation in the shape of a boat perched on the roof of ...
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 – heck, even our own ...
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 ‘Wuthering Heights’; one man methodically ...
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 gone to more screenings, but ...
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 at the Leicester Square Theatre. ...
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 when speaking about the body ...
“Gentlemen should emulate the starched collar and immaculate dinner suit of an Agatha Christie villain and ladies can take their inspiration from the silk and fur ensembles worn by the ...
It’s August and London’s art galleries are silent. Dealers have fled to the sun and staff have a few precious weeks to chill the best they can before the build-up ...
It is a bleak day when I visit the artist Rab Harling at the Balfron Tower in Poplar, East London. I have always been suspicious of Brutalist architecture and whether ...
