Fitness advice: Fix body and soul in the great outdoors October 8, 2019 The City is great. I’ve owned a gym here for almost 10 years. It can be invigorating being around so many people, seeing all the new buildings fly up, checking out all the new bars and restaurants. But there’s a flip-side. Being around so many people can be mentally and physically draining. An office full [...]
Style with Confidence October 7, 2019 Wednesday 16th October6.30pm – 8.30pmTurnbull & Asser, 71-72 Jermyn St, St. James’s, London SW1Y 6PF Join the City PM Club and Turnbull & Asser to hear from their hosts – Turnbull & Asser Creative Director, Becky French, Blackhorse Lane denim workshop owner, Bilgehan “Han” Ates, and journalist Aleks Cvetkovic – on how to revitalise your style and confidence. Enjoy an [...]
Stage and screen actress Tracy Ann Oberman on her latest role, being trolled on Twitter and why Eastenders is like the golden age of Hollywood October 4, 2019 Stage actress, Eastenders mega-bitch, social media warrior. With her voluminous blonde mane, practiced side-eye and reputation for being fearlessly outspoken, Tracy-Ann Oberman cuts an intimidating figure. We meet at a bijou cafe just off Hampstead Heath, the kind that sells £400 vintage chairs and is filled with brunching mums and toddlers. She breezes in, fashionably [...]
Bruce Springsteen turned 70 this year. We visit the downbeat seaside town in New Jersey made famous by the Boss… October 4, 2019 On the boardwalk of the small seaside town of Asbury Park is a fortune-telling booth, which has been owned by the same family of psychics since 1932. When I visit at ten in the morning, it’s shut, with a phone number pinned to the window instead. Surely they should have known I was coming. This [...]
The Last Supper: Musician and DJ Cerys Matthews tells us what she’d eat for her last meal on earth, including Ian Brown’s secret recipe October 4, 2019 When I was touring I used to keep a little journal about food, full of curiosities and surprises and things that make you smile. Like the fact people from Luxembourg call turkeys “schnuddelhong”, which translates as “snot hen”. Once you’ve heard that you can’t look at a turkey the same way. I collected all these [...]
Can Gordon Ramsay hit gold again on the site of Maze with pan-Asian eating house Lucky Cat? October 4, 2019 Ten years and several lifetimes ago, Jason Atherton was heading up the kitchen at Gordon Ramsay’s Maze. Back then, Ramsay could do no wrong. He was decorated with more Michelin awards than he could comfortably carry up a flight of stairs, owned lauded restaurants from New York to Tokyo, and was the sweary star of [...]
Real-life Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort reveals why the UK will survive Brexit October 4, 2019 The most remarkable thing about Jordan Belfort, the self-styled Wolf of Wall Street, is not his once-prodigious drug consumption or the Bacchanalian excess of his infamous company Stratton Oakmont – it’s his sheer, bloody-minded staying power. In his 56 years he’s experienced bankruptcy, drug addiction and incarceration, losing more money than most people could earn [...]
Judy film review: A nuanced portrait of troubled Hollywood icon October 4, 2019 This biopic of screen legend Judy Garland (Renee Zellweger) picks up its star in the late 1960s, and things aren’t going well. Her ex-husband wants custody of her two youngest children, she’s doing shows in grubby venues for $150, and getting kicked out of hotel suites when she can’t pay. Desperate for cash, she agrees [...]
Weekly Grill: Executive chef of Bōkan Restaurant in Canary Wharf Guillaume Gillan on how to improve your knife skills October 4, 2019 Who are you and what do you do? My name is Guillaume Gillan, executive chef of Bōkan Restaurant in Canary Wharf. Tell us about your new menu We’ve just launched our new three course Early Sunset Dockyard menu. It’s seasonally led so changes every couple weeks, and is served from 6pm to 7.30pm, giving guests front row [...]
‘Retro-futurist’ interiors bring brutalist Balfron Tower up to date October 4, 2019 Since it opened in 1967, the 26-storey Balfron Tower in Poplar has gone full-circle. The concrete behemoth was initially considered the masterpiece of modernist architect Erno Goldfinger, who even took a flat there himself. By the 1980s, it had become a symbol of urban deprivation, featuring in films such as the post-apocalyptic thriller 28 Days [...]
