SELFRIDGES has teamed up with BXR London, which describes itself as the world’s first high end boxing gym, to organise an in-store boxing residency throughout February. BXR is the gym where Anthony Joshua trains and he’s also on the membership committee responsible for rubber-stamping this boxing pop up. This Lamyland residency is the brainchild of […]
THE RISE ART PRIZE at House of Vans, Waterloo yesterday evening drew together an impressive line up of judges, Gavin Turk and Fiona Banner among them, to do justice to the equally impressive 26 shortlisted artists competing for the £10,000 prize. This international crop of painters, photographers and sculptors survived the cull of the 2,300 […]
WHAT’S HOT LONDON? magazine gives you a 30 second glimpse of a few theatres on and around Shaftesbury Avenue, Britain’s answer to Broadway. Built in 1886 and named after the 8th Earl of Shaftesbury, this West End street is certainly the heart of Theatreland, with the Lyric, Gielgud and Apollo some of the cheek by […]
The Museum of London already has a permanent display dedicated to the Suffragette movement. The centenary commemoration of the 1918 Representation of the People Act has seen this extended with two more display areas. On this same L2 level floor, you’ll also find the Shades of Suffragette Militancy and Votes for Women displays documenting the […]
WHAT’S HOT LONDON? magazine discovers surrealist/collage artist Adrian Boswell thriving amongst Brick Lane’s creative community. He sells his work from a small retail outlet/gallery on Brick Lane.
WHAT’S HOT LONDON? magazine is out and about capturing the craziness that makes our capital city great! We catch an open air barber at work. His salon is the whole of Trafalgar Square! Not bad business space if you can get it. Remember what they say – Location, Location, Location!
Helen Dunmore passed away from cancer in June 2017 and her Costa Prize-winning book of poems Inside the Wave touches upon her illness, mortality and the bridges between the worlds of the living and departed. It has the reflective air you might expect from one on their deathbed but with a contemplative flow that both […]
Alcotraz, a bar that’s based on the real Alcatraz Prison and where you’re put in cells while donning prison-issue orange jumpsuits. Why put yourself through the lock-up and the mean-spirited authority of these no-nonsense prison guards? Well the Alcotraz Bar Experience on Brick Lane will answer that in one wild and weird immersive experience. But […]
WITH ALL the recent headlines about the Parthenon Marbles being exhibited along with Rodin’s sculptures in April 2018 restoking arguments about ownership, here’s a glimpse of the magnificent marble sculptures. You’ll soon understand why Keats and Lord Byron visited the British Museum to see them and then wrote poems in their honour. You’ll also get […]
“Your parents know I’m black don’t they?” asks Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) as girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) prepares to take him to the lakeside estates of Upstate New York to meet the, on the face of it, middle-class liberal mum and dad. And so begins Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner horror style circa 2017. The characterisation […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
