AS SCIENTISTS and researchers fine-tune A.I technology capable of doing the most sophisticated tasks, the general perception is that not only will they be assigned the mundane stuff that we’d gladly delegate to our steel and wire buddies but eventually even our own jobs. Indeed, politicians and social commentators believe this has already started to […]
The Kray Twins ruled the Hoxton area with a rod of iron in the 1960s but none so notorious as the Elizabethan dueling thespians Ben Jonson (playwright) and Gabriel Spenser (actor) who dished out their own brand of violence on that fateful day on Sept 22nd 1598. Jonson was a distinguished playwright, poet and literary […]
If HAL the conscious computer from Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey incarnated in a stage production, it would probably be similar to Mother. Mother (Zara Banks) is the world’s first fully conscious machine, created by A.I specialist Dora (Natasha Killam) under the moral supervision of The Professor (Zara Banks again). The Professor’s Christian […]
A STREET ARTIST on Shaftesbury Avenue in the West End chats to a passer by while trying to pull in customers. His painting of Bob Marley in the foreground a prominent sign of his talent and acting as a portrait sized calling card. Photo (above) by Eddie Saint-Jean, title photo by Pedro Szekely via Flickr […]
Psychological thrillers are writer-director Darren Aronofsky’s cinematic fare but Mother! takes the genre to the next level. Although his 2010 movie Black Swan was hailed as the Mother of all psychological thrillers, you’ll soon discover Mother! is the Mother of the genre. Javier Bardem stars as an unnamed celebrated contemporary poet who lives with his […]
PERUVIAN CULTURE has a bright and colourful element most obviously seen in their traditional costume but even their intricately decorated national dishes. The rain-swept London streets could certainly do with a touch of sunny Latin America. The Casita Andina on Great Windmill Street, Soho is not entirely swamped by gastronomical competitors hailing from this western […]
The City Link Up Urban Showcase gives unsigned acts a platform for their talents every second Wednesday of the month at the Undersolo club, Camden. Right next door is the Good Mixer pub where Britpop’s finest held court in the 1990s but the music performed on this stage was acoustic soul, R n’ B, hip […]
Before all you distance runners out there pull on your jogging trainers and snap on your fitbits for your weekly run, ever wondered where the word marathon came from and why it’s the longest endurance race in the Olympics? Well on this day in 490 BCE the Greek and Persian forces met on the plain […]
The Sept 8-11 TVL in London Festival celebrating Tel Aviv culture was met with protests over the weekend. Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions activists gathered at the Roundhouse venue in Camden where most of the events were based and verbally clashed with pro-Israel individuals. Festival director Marc Worth is a British philanthropist and also one of […]
An award-winning cocktail bar in Shoreditch named after super cool 1960s and 70s American movie icon Steve McQueen, it’s going to be just as super cool, right? Pretty much. Well actually not just a bar – a grill restaurant and boutique nightclub as well with gold framed black and white photos of the King of […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
