(Below) One of the many tweets flashing on a screen in The Rake Pub in Borough Market, which recently made news headlines for serving the most expensive beers in the UK. The same screen lists the selection of 14 specialist beers, which will have you remortgaging your house by the end of the evening. The […]
With the UK’s obesity levels now topping the European rankings the urgency to get fitter has never been greater. Even the official NHS website described our nation as the “the fat man of Europe” citing figures from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation showing one in four Brits are obese. This is the highest in […]
Fashion Snap of the Week An attorney from the Cayman Islands, who prefers to keep his identity undisclosed, attends London Ethnic’s Big Fashionista Party and Fashion Showcase at the Roof Gardens, Kensington in a very regal looking outfit including white silk tie and paisley jacket. The gold tipped leather shoes complete the eye-catching outfit. Party-goers […]
If you like your music live and loud get out on the town and support the capital’s numerous singers and bands taking the stage at London showcases tonight. There’s plenty of choice; some require entrance fees and others are free. Here are two to look out for if you’re out and about in Camden or […]
Fresh from her successful role as Laureline in recent movie Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets comes Cara Delevingne’s latest creative venture – her 368-page novel Mirror Mirror, co-written with Rowan Coleman and published by Trapeze. Judging by her performance in Luc Besson’s sci-fi flick, she has undoubted talent but English fiction writing […]
THE POETRY OF PLACE exhibition, 17 August – 16 September brings together UK and Japanese artists working in print. Curated by the Wyllie O Hagan team and Rebecca Marcus-Monks at the Koppel Project, Baker Street, it focuses on the theme of place and presents different approaches to capturing the essence of environment. The curators felt […]
Author Mike McCormack is the odds-on favourite to win the Booker Prize with a 244 page novel made up of just one sentence – and it doesn’t have any full stops. He was born in London in 1965 but moved back to his parents’ homeland of Ireland where his fifth book Solar Bones is based. […]
ON THIS DAY in 1743 English bare-knuckle fighter Jack Broughton began staging boxing exhibitions in an ampitheatre on Hanway Rd, near Oxford Street. It eventually became the largest of its kind, making him the foremost name in the sport. He cemented this status by drawing up seven rules, which became universally applied before the Marquis […]
BRITAIN’S most famous clock tower is to fall silent until 2021 while urgent repairs are completed but here are a few interesting facts about this popular Westminster tourist attraction that looms over the Houses of Parliament. The bell was cast in Stockton-on-Tees 161 years ago this same month, weighing in at a formidable 16 tons. […]
44 YEARS AGO today a new sound called hip hop was born when legendary New York DJ Kool Herc held one of his block parties, mixed a couple of tracks together and kick-started a musical revolution. The exact address was 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, Bronx, New York, the date August 11 1973 and back then the […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
