Features

  • Short Film Screenings at the Cinema Museum
    Posted in: Editorial, Events & Festivals, Features, Galleries & Museums, Movies & TV Shows

    Eddie Saint-Jean, editor of What’s Hot London? magazine attends a screening of his short film at the Cinema Museum, Kennington. His film When The Earth Fell Down is about an environmental disaster. The film event was organised by Exploding Cinema who screened 20 experimental films submitted by film-makers from all over the world.

  • Eddie Saint-Jean Post Card to Nowhere Sefie Exhibition Candid Arts
    Postcard to Nowhere at Selfie Exhibition
    Posted in: Features, People, Shows & Exhibitions

    What’s Hot London?’s editor and writer/film director Eddie Saint-Jean’s selfie titled ‘Postcard to Nowhere’ is one of the photos being exhibited at the Candid Arts Selfie Exhibition in Angel, Islington which opened this week. The exhibition will run through March 4th and entry to the exhibition is free.

  • International Margarita Day
    International Margarita Day
    Posted in: Features, Food & Dining

    Press Release: Ella Canta is the latest addition to London’s burgeoning Mexican restaurant scene. Alongside the authentic yet contemporary Mexican dishes from culinary superstar Martha Ortiz, the bar at Ella Canta serves up some of the best margaritas in town, perfect for celebrating International Margarita Day on 22 February. Sips inspired by the traditional margarita […]

  • An Interview with Novelist Nuril Basri
    Posted in: Books, Features

    Not A Virgin is a new novel by Indonesian writer Nuril Basri, which delves into the world of the transgender and transexual community in his home country and shares the coded language they use to communicate. What’s Hot London? magazine talks to him about his creative journey to completion.  Not A Virgin is a pretty […]

  • 3 Ways Science and Technology Have Become Science FACTion in 2018
    Posted in: Features

    With Jules Verne’s’ fans celebrating the sci-fi author’s birthday a few days ago, we discuss the recent amazing developments in science and technology that have turned science fiction into science fact. Gene editing – Scientists have been accused of playing God recently because of their Prometheus-like charge towards greater knowledge, particularly in the areas of […]

  • So What’s All the Fuss About the Parthenon Marbles Anyway?
    Posted in: Features, Galleries & Museums, Photos, Shows & Exhibitions

    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 […]

  • Claude Monet: Painting London
    Posted in: Features

    Claude Monet’s painting of the harbour at Le Havre Impression: Sunrise (1872) gave its name to the Impressionist movement which emerged in France, led by Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Cezanne. Art critic Louis Leroy poured scorn on a joint exhibition held by these four artists in 1874. However, his scathing attack and the title of his […]

  • Brick Lane Graffiti: Let the East End Streets Become Your Canvas
    Posted in: Features

    Brick Lane is best known for its award-winning Indian restaurants, but it’s also become one big canvas for the area’s most talented graffiti artists. It’s no wonder the tourists come flocking bearing their mobile phone cameras and professional camera kit. Here is a random selection that may make your day a little brighter!