East Enders greeted with the sight of the world’s most famous band on white horses During and after the 2012 Olympics held at Stratford’s Olympic Stadium, local residents noticed that Stratford’s Abbey Rd, DLR station became a stop off point for hordes of international Beatles fans, lost and looking for the famous Abbey Rd zebra […]
The Women of the Lens Festival is the first British film festival for black women and women of colour and this is its first festival year. There are four days of panel discussions and screenings of shorts and features in all genres from drama to documentaries, with black women central to creation and production. It’s […]
British authors Rohan Quine and J. S. Jones have novels that whisk you away from the humdrum of the UK to more exotic and glamorous locations. The Beasts of Electra Drive Rohan Quine was raised in South London but lived in the USA for over a decade so his transatlantic background filters into the fictional […]
WITH all the hype about Star Wars: The Last Jedi and the countdown to its much-awaited premiere on Dec 14th, any wonder that the Science Museum has got in on the act. The bonafide home of science without the fiction is advertising £16.50 tickets for premiere night where you can watch the latest in this […]
New Scientist Live at the ExCel Centre over the weekend featured exhibitors, talks, presentations and demonstrations in all areas of science, technology and medicine. Even Star Wars had its own easily spotted presentation area where you could learn all about the real-life technology behind Luke Skywalker’s robotic arm and the actual robots used in the […]
AS SCIENTISTS and researchers fine-tune A.I technology capable of doing the most sophisticated tasks, the general perception is that not only will they be assigned the mundane stuff that we’d gladly delegate to our steel and wire buddies but eventually even our own jobs. Indeed, politicians and social commentators believe this has already started to […]
IT WAS on this date, July 13 1923, that perhaps the most famous sign in the movie industry was officially dedicated over the Hollywood Hills on Mount Lee, Los Angeles, California. The 50-foot letters originally spelled Hollywoodland but in 1949 the ‘land’ part was removed. It was erected as a local real estate subdivision by […]
With its atmospheric, sweeping location shots and all round high production values, indie horror movie Cain Hill is showing what can be done on a modest budget. Produced and co-written by Tony Cook who is also one of the main actors, it features documentary filmmakers braving an empty asylum building to make a TV special […]
THE 70th CANNES FILM FESTIVAL has always had an aura of glamour and cerebral quality about it, basking in its position as the cream of all festivals and drawing stars like a magnet to the South of France to its red carpet premieres. To the emerging film-maker seeking some sort of headway in the industry, […]
The Gagosian Gallery presents a Picasso fascinated with his Spanish bullfighting heritage and featuring works from childhood dated as early as 1889 and up until his death in 1971. It’s easy to associate the complex, strong-spirited artist with this dramatic and gory spectacle. Born in Malaga in 1881, his childhood memories are steeped in the […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
