The British Art Prize 2024: Interview with winner Samuel Owusu Achiaw The winner of the British Art Prize 2024 has just been announced. Samuel Owusu Achiaw took first prize for his exquisitely diaphonous and hyperreal graphite and charcoal portrait of his sister, titled ‘Looking’. We attended the awards ceremony at Southbank’s Gallery@oxo and were […]
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What’s in a name? London place names decoded We’re surrounded by street signs every day and casually type these sometimes odd-sounding addresses into Google Maps without a second thought about what they mean or where the name came from. The Romans founded the city of Londinium [London], so you’d expect a Latin root somewhere. Let’s […]
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The British Art Prize 2024: Interview with winner Samuel Owusu Achiaw The winner of the British Art Prize 2024 has just been announced. Samuel Owusu Achiaw took first prize for his exquisitely diaphonous and hyperreal graphite and charcoal portrait of his sister, titled ‘Looking’. We attended the awards ceremony at Southbank’s Gallery@oxo and were […]
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The Tequila Festival toured the UK last year and fans of the infamous drink made from the blue Agave plant came from far and wide to enjoy the range of drinks, food and entertainment on offer. The festival returns to London for a second year on August 4th as it lands at Acklam Village in […]
As summery rain spells cool down the heatwave this week, why not enjoy some cinema with a complimentary glass of bourbon this Friday? Wild Turkey and Everyman present the Bold Cinema Series, a curation of gutsy titles best enjoyed with a Wild Turkey 101 Old Fashioned in hand. Watch any of Wild Turkey’s bold film […]
Have you been frustrated lately to find ice cream tubs rapidly disappear off the frozen shelves at almost all supermarkets you visit? Exciting news! As temperatures soar, Jude’s ice cream is going to celebrate by giving away 4,000 mini tubs of ice cream in Soho. What makes this news even more exciting is that ten of […]
BRITISH SANDWICH WEEK May 20- 26 may have caught many of you unawares, what with the constant influx of National Days, Weeks and Months celebrating everything from the capital’s cocktails to fast food chicken wings, but there are still a few days left to honour the humble British sarnie. The sandwich was named after the […]
WHAT’S HOT LONDON? is bucking the fashion trend and seeking the less represented in the fashion and modelling industry. So if you’re male, aged 40-65 and see yourself as the Hot Male of 2018 why not enter our competition? Life doesn’t end at middle-age and we aim to prove this by providing you with the […]
Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery will be opening late for Museums at Night May 16-19. Galleries and museums all over the UK will be extending their opening hours for talks, workshops and special events. Rachel Howard conducts a tour of her Repetition is Truth exhibition at the Newport Street Gallery and enlightens about how her large-scale […]
Those in the know amongst the capital’s wine connoisseurs would have marked London Wine Week 2018 in their summer diaries and headed for this seven-day festival’s hub at Flat Iron Square, Bankside. This Borough foodie yard will be hosting pop up bars from the likes of Muscadet from the Loire Valley and Spanish rose wine […]
KEW GARDENS was originally the private woodlands and riding grounds surrounding Kew Palace, King George III’s convalescence home, and the red-bricked state residence is still on the land despite being sold off by Queen Victoria. Today Kew is in the news because of the £18 million restoration of Temperate House which was recently reopened by […]
Droids, jedis and stormtroopers took to the streets of Stratford, East London on the opening day of Sci-Fi London a film festival which screens the best of shorts and features in the genre. The festival opened with Chimera, a thriller about a disturbed scientist in a race against time to save his dying children. Star […]
NOW IN ITS 3rd YEAR, the London Bengali Film Festival has succeeded in bringing the stories of Bengal and the Bengali diaspora to the capital with, as ever, a rich and educational cultural variety. Founder and CEO Mansur Ali has brought his experience as the founder of the Limelight Awards, the UK’s largest short film […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
