Highlights

The Jameel Prize: Moving Images
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions

The Jameel Prize: Moving Images – exhibition at the V&A . Beyond the V&A’s ornate and magnificently high-ceilinged walls lie an extraordinary wealth of historical and cultural displays. Indeed, you’d best plan your day around just one exhibition, or you’ll be there all week! And why not plan that visit around the Jameel Prize: Moving […]

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Features

London Place Names
Posted in: Features, Places

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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Reviews

The Jameel Prize: Moving Images
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions

The Jameel Prize: Moving Images – exhibition at the V&A . Beyond the V&A’s ornate and magnificently high-ceilinged walls lie an extraordinary wealth of historical and cultural displays. Indeed, you’d best plan your day around just one exhibition, or you’ll be there all week! And why not plan that visit around the Jameel Prize: Moving […]

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Highlights

  • State of the Art Cinema Exhibition 2016
    State of the Art Cinema
    Posted in: Highlights, Photos, Shows & Exhibitions

    Pop along to the Strand Gallery to catch their State of the Art Cinema 2016 exhibition. Official movie photos from classics like Ben Hur, also behind the scenes photographs from box office hits such as Ghostbusters, not to mention costumes from the Carry-On comedy era! For free admission, you also enjoy film-related activities such as […]

  • Theatreland
    Theatreland
    Posted in: Highlights, Photos, Places

    Ever wondered why London’s West End is known as Theatreland? This ‘theatrical’ photo series by Eddie Saint-Jean tells you exactly why!

  • George Stephenson Railways
    July 25th: The Day George Stephenson Invented The Railways
    Posted in: Highlights, People

    Londoners are blessed to be living in one of the fastest moving communication centres in the world which sometimes makes them take their transport links for granted. The rush hour grumbles on many a cramped carriage this summer have inevitably been about late, delayed or slow-moving trains in the stifling heat. Even the prospect of […]

  • The Northbank Summer Festival
    The Northbank Summer Festival
    Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights, Photos

    If the heatwave this week is making you irritable, take a break and stroll along Victoria Embankment Gardens and partake in the Northbank Summer Festival. Organised by City Showcase Markets, the month long festival that ends on July 29 has a series of curated events including Embankment summer market, food stalls, live band and tea […]

  • The Queen of 9 days - Lady Jane Grey
    July 19th: The Nine Days Queen & The Tower of London
    Posted in: Highlights, People, Places

    So what does the average 15 year old girl get up to? It’s the age at which they have their first kiss with 77% saying they remember it as clear as the day it happened. Also according to a Daily Mail survey parents claim they are more concerned with boyfriends and make-up than school work. […]

  • Fabulous Fashionistas at Rooftop Gardens
    Fabulous Fashionistas at Rooftop Gardens
    Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights, People, Photos

    Over the weekend, the ‘Fabulous Fashionistas’ held a suitably fab Summer Cocktail Party at Roof Top Gardens, Kensington for its fashion, film and TV networking soiree. This included a model catwalk casting right there in the club. It’s the place to be seen and make industry contacts so keep a look out for their glamorous […]

  • Dum Dum Doughnut Bar, Shoreditch
    A Doughnut Bar
    Posted in: Bars & Clubs, Food & Dining, Highlights, Photos, Places

    Looking for a cool hang out this summer but had your fill of clubs and booze? Got a sweet tooth? Well your first destination should be cool n’ trendy Shoreditch where you will be a little spoilt for choice for ‘hang-out’ credibility. Although Dum Dum Doughnuts at the ever-so-hip Box Park fits the bill. It’s […]

  • British Fashion Volume II at the Dorsett Hotel
    British Fashion Volume II
    Posted in: Highlights, Photos, Shows & Exhibitions

    The British Fashion Volume II at the Dorsett Hotel, Holland Park brought together the cream of rising design talent wowing the audience and photographers with their latest creations. The temperatures sure rose over the weekend.

  • Monologues for BAME actors- Book Launch
    Monologues for BAME Actors : Book Launch
    Posted in: Books, Highlights

    BAME stage actors seeking quality audition material will find Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors an entertaining read and comes recommended for any aspiring thespian set on a career in theatre. The book, which includes a foreword by actor and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah, was published on June 30th and launched at Theatre […]

  • The Horse Hospital
    A Horsey Art Centre
    Posted in: Highlights, Places

    A weird name for a London arts venue and a hub for even weirder creative ideas – the type that are more likely to be rejected by traditional exhibition spaces – but the Horse Hospital has a ‘stable’ enough footing amongst the capital’s artistic community (if you forgive the pun). This Bloomsbury venue holds book […]