Is EE 4G really OMG? We get stuck in with the new LTE network November 14, 2012 You know that feeling when you simply must watch the video of a man leaping towards a frozen pool – the one where the ice doesn’t break, and the man crashes onto the ice and it’s funny because the man hurts himself – but you can’t because you’re in the middle of a shop and [...]
ART & SOUL November 14, 2012 The annual ING Discerning Eye exhibition, showcasing the work of unknown artists alongside more established names, opens to the public today at The Mall Galleries in London. Nearly 200 selected artists will display their artworks at this year’s exhibition, which attracted more than 2,000 submissions. This year’s selector panel includes English abstract expressionist Albert Irvin, [...]
A car you’ll be able to tell from Adam November 13, 2012 I’M STANDING in a hotel car park outside Lisbon and my head hurts. Forty different versions of Vauxhall’s new lifestyle city car, called Adam, are laid out in front of me and I’m not sure I particularly like the look of any of them. This, I suspect, is entirely the point – Vauxhall’s diminutive new [...]
Car talk November 13, 2012 The Caterham Seven Supersport The Caterham Seven Supersport is getting an even-more race-focused brother. The two-litre Supersport R boasts a bigger Ford Duratec engine, a five-speed gearbox and packs 180bhp. Developed over three years of Caterham’s R300 race championship, the car has hardcore track-bred dynamics, a bespoke steering wheel, composite race seats and four-point race [...]
The tux gets the Acne treatment November 13, 2012 WHAT SPRINGS to mind when you think about Acne? Not formal wear, right, and why should it? After all, when the Swedish label exploded onto the fashion scene just over a decade ago, it was its achingly cool and quirky denim wear that had everybody talking. Fast-forward to today and the denim wear is still [...]
Michael van der Ham and Brora join forces November 13, 2012 ACNE’S NOT the only brand unveiling a big collaboration this month. London Fashion week favourite Michael Van Der Ham has joined forces with British cashmere label Brora, on a twelve-piece collection to make sure that you can keep warm but stylish this winter. “I was approached by Brora [to do a collection] and wanted to [...]
The rise and rise of the super gym: how to work out in style November 12, 2012 I remember a time when “posh gym membership” meant you were given a towel on arrival. Nothing so modest nowadays. We’ve moved on to scuba diving in your lunch hour, technology that allows you to measure and track every heartbeat and swim stroke, both in and out of the club, and chilled eucalyptus towels on [...]
Chrysan: lost in translation? November 12, 2012 RESTAURANT CHRYSAN 1 Snowden Street, EC2A 2DQ Tel: 020 3657 4777 FOOD **** SERVICE **** ATMOSPHERE ** Cost for two people with drinks: £160 A FRIEND of mine has recently taken up learning Japanese. So, last month, I found myself spending a surreal afternoon watching a Japanese detective drama series, Deka Kurokawa Suzuki, which really [...]
Why making a business out of wine is no mean feat November 12, 2012 THERE CAN be something very impersonal about buying a bottle of wine. You pull something off a shelf with a nice label and some fancy writing and take pot luck. Even if it’s delicious, you don’t really know a great deal about it. There may be a few uninformative notes on the back, perhaps a [...]
Some like it hot November 12, 2012 Hot punches are not in vogue. However, while it might not look as impressive as coolly flipping your cocktail down to freezing, a warm cocktail can better suit our intemperate climate. Even more tainted than the suggestion of a hot cocktail is the practice of making a punch. Punches are all too often the desperate [...]