Television Comes to London was the title of a documentary aired on the world’s first television service introduced by the pioneering British Broadcasting Company (BBC) on this day Nov 2nd in 1936. A more apt title might have been BBC Brings a Television Service to the World but no matter how ground-breaking this all was its […]
You may have noticed Hollywood sci- fi film Arrival has been gaining considerable press weeks before its global release. Along with its original take on alien contact it’s also been garnering attention from the bookish crowd as well as cinema lovers because it started out as a short story (not even a novel!) by respected […]
One of the most common criticisms of horror films is they have all the gory detail and special effects down to a tee but little novelty or meaningful plot development. At first glance, South Korean horror movie Train to Busan is, when all is said and done, another zombie flick. But from the off you […]
Religious iconography is underscored throughout the large scale abstract works in this, Henri Brande’s first exhibition in the UK, giving the already hushed environment of the white-walled gallery space an even more hallowed atmosphere. Added to this an air of mystery about an artist who not only preferred to work under the radar for half […]
“Swansea’s bohemians in exile were going to ring the bells of London and paint it like a tart”. This quote was attributed to Dylan Thomas after getting his first permanent London flat with a pal. And he remained true to his word. Although born in Swansea, Wales he first visited London in 1933 and would […]
You won’t have to look too hard to find a restaurant along Camden’s Parkway. For some reason, whether that’s the ethnic make up of the area or just culinary tastes peculiar to NW1, there are a large number of Japanese and Italian eateries along that stretch of road. But squashed some where between is a […]
Fresh off of his film’s double-award winning night at What’s Hot London?’s Hot Shorts Film Festival London 2016, David Gilbank the writer/director of supernatural crime caper Polterheist is now focusing on turning the multi-award winning short into a feature film. What’s Hot London?’s Eddie Saint-Jean interviews him about the film’s success and these plans for […]
An artist’s 9-5 job can often be the inspiration behind some of his greatest creations away from the daily grind. Mile End-based artist Stanislav Geissler’s journey as a sculptor has taken him from his homeland of the Czech Republic where he worked as a panel beater and he is now resident in London employed as […]
October is a month studded with the birth dates of Britain’s greatest ‘pens’ from Oscar Wilde to Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( Oct 21) Although born on this day in Ottley, Devon in 1772, poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived in Highgate Village for the last twenty years of his life. Today the picturesque […]
Did this conversation between Cassius Clay (as he was then known), Malcolm X, soul singer Sam Cooke and American footballer Jim Brown actually take place? That’s debatable, but without doubt these three men were close pals of The Greatest and if we are led to believe they were together chatting in this hotel room after […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
