HOW TO GET DRESSED: OSCAR SPECIAL February 24, 2011 FOUNDERS OF ROUS ILAND MEMBERS’ BOUTIQUE, WWW.ROUSILAND.COM Q.With the Oscars on Sunday, I fancy going all-out with a big, glamorous dress soon. Any tips on how I can look like a star? A.Looking like a star is all about radiating confidence and inner poise – see Sandra Bullock, last year’s Best Actress winner, pictured right. [...]
Wareing’s next stop: St Pancras February 23, 2011 MARCUS Wareing appears, sleek in dark clothes, at the building site that is soon to be the Gilbert Scott, his first restaurant since his flagship at the Berkeley. With his silky-looking clothes, graceful step and searing blue eyes, he looks like what he is: the sort of man who understands and presides over Michelin stars [...]
House swapping and geopolitcal disaster February 23, 2011 BEFORE I KNEW YOU BY AMANDA BROOKFIELD PENGUIN, £6.99 MID-Atlantic at 35,000 feet, two couples pass in opposite directions. They are on the seemingly perfect credit crunch vacation, an international house swap with suitably affluent, never-to-be-seen hosts. Sophie and Andrew Chapman leave their Victorian family home in south-west London, their teenage daughters and Sophie’s recent [...]
Gadget watches February 23, 2011 IT’S four decades since the launch of the first digital watch, and the technology is about to take its next big leap forward. Thanks to the proliferation of e-readers and touchscreen devices, those old liquid crystal digital displays now look about as up-to-date as tartan bell-bottoms. It was only a matter of time before watch [...]
WHAT’S NEW IN GADGETS AND TECHNOLOGY February 23, 2011 SONY LAUNCHES NEW VAIO RANGE Sony unveiled its new range of Vaio laptops this week, including the strikingly-coloured C Series. Available in luminous orange, green and pink, it features light emitting technology that makes your laptop look like it’s glowing. For the more demure consumer, you can also grab it in black or white, and [...]
Build up your online profile if you want to get poached February 23, 2011 THERE was a time when all you needed to advance your career – other than a good work ethic – was a connection or two with a well-placed headhunter. Now the key is to develop a strong online presence too. The top City talent scouts have been tending to turn to social networking sites to [...]
OUT OF OFFICE February 23, 2011 COMEDY RUSH LIVE If you like your comedy of the quick-fire variety, then tonight’s Comedy Rush show should be right up your street. it features 60 comic acts in 60 minutes flat, with a line-up that includes Brendon Burns, Lucy Porter, Robin Ince, Howard Read, Simon Munnery and Andrew Maxwell. If you can’t make it [...]
Are you ready to rumble? February 22, 2011 IT’S not often I get woken up to the deep rumbling sound of a flat-six engine firing up but it certainly makes a change from my 16 month-old daughter singing and it’s almost as delightful in its way, even before coffee at 7.30am. It’s the sound of a Carrera GTS, the latest in the 911 [...]
CAR TALK February 22, 2011 Running on bio, fast Finland’s four-time world rally champion Juha Kankkunen has set a new world ice speed record by driving an all-wheel drive, 6-litre, 12-cylinder Bentley Continental Supersports convertible on the frozen Baltic Sea, off the coast of Finland. The Finn reached 205.48mph in the car, which was running on biofuel. One hundred examples [...]
Another one bites the… pub February 21, 2011 The Fox & Grapes 9 Camp Road, Wimbledon Common, SW19 4UN. Tel: 020 8619 1300 FOOD SERVICE ATMOSPHERE Cost per person without wine: £28 GORDON Ramsay did it, Heston’s done it, Marco Pierre White did it first, the chaps at the Ledbury have done it and won an extra Michelin star in the process. These [...]