Pullman pulls off Jesus triumph May 26, 2010 THE GOOD MAN JESUS AND THE SCOUNDREL CHRIST BY PHILIP PULLMAN Canongate, £16.99 by Joanna Elias A book about Jesus? Risky business. The son of God has inspired libraries of works on the quest for his true historical life. Geza Vermes’ controversial Jesus the Jew, which takes Jesus back to his Jewish roots, proved JC [...]
OUT OF OFFICE May 26, 2010 PINTER PLAY COMES TO FLEET STREET Legend has it that Harold Pinter’s career was saved by Harold Hobson’s single favourable review of The Birthday Party: “a skull-beneath-the-skin play, exposing the horrors and fears that lurk under the calm, dull surface of our everyday existence”. In 1959, a year after its disastrous opening, The Birthday Party [...]
How to eat like a (vegetarian) king May 26, 2010 DESPITE the cult status acquired by super-deli Ottolenghi, known for its heavenly salads and cakes, and the super-sleek vegan Saf (see Joe McCanta’s column below), vegetarian restaurants aren’t exactly alluring to a professional, urban and carnivorous crowd. But Andrew Dargue and his wife Donna Conroy, from Teeside, think things should be different, and so two [...]
Wines to match your gourmet veggie dinner May 26, 2010 JOE MCCANTA SOMMELIER, SAF RESTAURANTS; FOUNDER, PURSIP DRINKS CONSULTANCY WORKING with primarily vegetarian (and even vegan) foods, I’m constantly having to look at innovative ways of matching food to wine. It seems that even in some of the top restaurants most sommeliers are terrified by the concept of not resorting to their good old stand-by [...]
It’s party time May 25, 2010 SOUNDWAVE When: 23 to 25 July Where: Petrcane, Croatia What: Soundwave is an idyllic holiday and festival in one. Set in a small fishing village on a Croatian peninsular where the Dalmation Coast meets the Adriatic Sea, the event offers an inland amphitheatre for bands, a beachside terrace that transforms into a nightclub after the [...]
OUT OF OFFICE May 25, 2010 RIEDEL WINE TASTING Don’t miss Riedel’s legendary wine and glass comparative tasting on 11 June, conducted by Georg Riedel, 10th generation master glassmaker and head of the wine glass company. In a unique wine and glass tasting, Riedel will demonstrate the relationship between the shape of a glass and our perception and enjoyment of wines. [...]
Sport & spark May 25, 2010 THE EX37 is perplexing. Most cars are remarkably easy to understand. With one look at the exterior and a sit inside and you can pretty much get a grip on what kind of car you’re in and have some idea of the kind of person it has been designed for. But not this one. It’s [...]
Unleash your inner Borg this summer May 24, 2010 OF ALL sports, tennis is surely the one best enjoyed in summer, or the few weeks of the year when the sun deigns us worthy of a few rays. Who wants to dust off their racket to play indoors or under grey skies on some unforgiving-to-the-knees all-weather court? Very few people, if our dearth of [...]
It’s sun, camera, and action for the holiday May 24, 2010 JVC GZ-HM1 £694.00 www.hi-camera.com This model has storage for six hours of 1,080p video on its 64GB flash memory (plus room for three hours more in its memory slot) and is a winner in this year’s Press Association awards. Optical image stabilisation enables smooth use of the 20x zoom with additional advanced stabilisation for panning. [...]
Season’s hottest sun lotions May 24, 2010 MOST of us will be a bit pink after the last few days. And while the mercury is dropping again, we can only hope this is the real beginning of summer. As soon as it warms up, we run for the parks and beach, begging the sun to singe us. But blocking its harmful rays [...]