One caffeine-fix enlightening trip to the London Coffee Festival 2018 at the Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane and you’ll soon know your Cafe Bombons from your Cafe Lattes. This four-day event, April 12-15, is a step beyond your regular morning coffee serving, with coffee tasting, workshops, talks and demonstrations attracting potential consumers and industry types […]
LONDON BOOK AND SCREEN WEEK might seem a tenuous creative mix but not when you consider it is celebrating one thing – storytelling, regardless of its form. So whether you’re a book lover, aspiring author, bestseller, film buff, independent film-maker or Hollywood bigwig, then London Book and Screen Week 9- 15th April offers opportunities for […]
This week is a pretty important one in the history of space travel. It was on this day, April 9th, back in 1959 that America showed off its first astronauts at a press conference and discussed their Project Mercury mission to launch the world’s first manned space program involving these seven military pilots. The launch […]
A QUIET PLACE is a pretty quiet film. In fact, after a couple of scenes, you’ll get the impression you are watching a silent movie. The characters rarely speak so as to prolong their survival in an environment where blind reptilian extraterrestrials hunt down anything they can hear. Their lack of sight evens up the […]
As the sun goes down over South Bank and Bankside, the cultural heart of the Thames’ southern bank lights up. Take a look at our magnificent photos of riverside scenes and nightlife, some of which will be featured in the April print edition of What’s Hot London? magazine. ST PAUL’S: a view from Bankside ST […]
Artist Pablo Malick (in title photo with gallerist Christian Sulger-Buel) is interviewed by What’s Hot London?’s editor and arts writer Eddie Saint-Jean and discusses his collage, mixed media style which is inspired by DaDa and the Surrealists. His Young Guns exhibition alongside Larry Amponsah (Ghana) and Colin Sekajugo (Uganda) is on at the Sulger-Buel Gallery, […]
Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh’s latest film ‘Unsane’ was shot entirely on an iPhone. With 4k quality available on smartphones, groundbreaking technology is opening new doors for indie filmmakers who are now reaching for their phones and drones. THE RAPID increase in digital technology and advances in smart engineering have led to startling new developments […]
In 1968, women sewing machinists at Ford Dagenham went on strike for equal pay. The movie Made in Dagenham was based on their successful industrial action. But over a century before that, another group of working-class East End women changed UK labour relations forever. Read more about these history-making women strikers. We look at how […]
Believe it or not today is National Chicken Wing Day. Who says so? What are the prerequisites for National Day status? That remains a mystery but what remains crystal clear is there are some award-winning chicken wing outlets out there who will give Colonel Sanders a run for the money. We’ve pitted one in the […]
A Feast of Dining Options in White City The Incipio Group have made it their mission to put White City on the map as the capital’s premier location for bars and restaurants with a difference. The drinking and dining specialists behind the bespoke Pergola on the Roof eatery in Wood Lane have struck again with […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
