Rare objects of beauty for everyone to see June 23, 2011 THE country’s leading private art galleries, antique shops and jewellery stores, stocked to the rafters as they tend to be with objects that are beautiful, rare and pricey, can be intimidating places if you just fancy a browse. Enduring the gaze of a sales assistant who knows you have no intention of buying anything is [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEKEND June 23, 2011 FILM COUNTDOWN TO ZERO Disturbing documentary about the nuclear weapons industry. Be afraid. CUTTER’S WAY Re-release for the lauded Seventies thriller, starring a dashing young Jeff Bridges. INCENDIES A gruelling drama set in Canada and the Middle East by Quebecois director Dominic Villeneuve. DVD BON IVER Eponymous sophomore album from soulful, talented singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. [...]
A gross-out comedy for the ladies June 23, 2011 Film BRIDESMAIDS Cert: 15 PRODUCED by the multi-faceted Judd Apatow, Bridesmaids follows in the footsteps of a recent wave of offbeat comedies such as Anchorman, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Superbad and Knocked Up – with the crucial difference that instead of overgrown frat boys, the protagonists here are women. Saturday Night Live regular Kristen [...]
Capital & Counties submit Earls Court housing plans June 22, 2011 CAPITAL & COUNTIES Properties submitted plans yesterday for the £8bn redevelopment of Earls Court site in West London. EC Properties, a subsidiary of CapCo, presented planning applications to Hammersmith and Fulham council to demolish the 77-acre site in West Kensington – which includes the Earls Court Exhibition Centre – and replace it with 7,500 new [...]
Maths: not just for geeks June 22, 2011 FOR far too many people, maths is associated with memories of torturous classes from their childhood – the slow walk towards the blackboard to undertake the intricacy of long division. Yet there are some really good books on the market that can make maths appealing, even to the most innumerate. Indeed, the sudden rush of maths-made-fun [...]
I want to break up, but we’re going away… June 22, 2011 DEAR VEXED: I’m thinking of breaking up with my girlfriend but we’ve got a holiday booked in August. Should I wait to break up after the holiday or do it before and face the consequences? We paid quite a lot for it. Neil, distressed debt, 29 Afriend of mine was recently going through a bad [...]
OUT OF OFFICE June 22, 2011 ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD The playwright Tom Stoppard made his name 40 years ago with this absurdist retelling of Hamlet from the point of view of his hapless student friends, here revived under the direction of Tom Stoppard. Samuel Barnett – known for his role as one of the classmates in the History Boys [...]
Social and delicious in one June 22, 2011 THERE are restaurants that open with whimpers and others that open with bangs. Ex-Ramsay super-protégé Jason Atherton’s new eaterie, Pollen Street Social, was always going to open with a bang – and, two months in, continues with a clamour. The clamour is not of chaos, plates smashing or chefs shouting, but of the throngs trying [...]
City’s cigar terraces are heating up June 22, 2011 GOING OUT WITH the inconsistencies of a British summer it’s very important for cigar aficionados to be able to take shelter in high style while enjoying Cuba’s finest. The newest addition to London’s most lauded and exclusive cigar terraces offers just that and is at one of London’s most famous nightspots, Tramp on Jermyn Street. [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS June 22, 2011 NEW FROM NUNO Two of the country’s leading chefs are behind new London restaurants. First up, Nuno Mendes, the Portuguese star who has been wowing diners and Michelin judges with his multi-course creations at Viajante in Bethnal Green, has opened a more relaxed dining room upstairs in the same building, the Town Hall Hotel. Corner [...]
