Another triumph from the master of literary darkness May 19, 2010 THE SUNSET LIMITED BY CORMAC MCCARTHY Picador, £9.99 **** THE iconic American author of the Pulitzer winning The Road (2006) and No Country For Old Men (2005) has a fixation with the grim. Men (in general) love to read his work, see the film adaptations, perhaps because it all toys with apocalypse in various ways [...]
VEXED IN THE CITY May 19, 2010 I’m fed up with my office pal taking out his temper on me DEAR VEXED: There’s a guy at work in the same division as me. We’re on the same level as each other and joined the company at the same time. We get on brilliantly most of the time; laughing and joking, he even [...]
Polo’s hottest event returns to Hurlingham May 18, 2010 FOR a game that’s nearly 3,000 years old, polo has certainly kept up with the times. Last year’s MINT Polo in the Park event at Hurlingham attracted a crowd of 24,000 and a TV audience of more than two million viewers, making it the most watched polo match ever. The first recorded game took place [...]
French fancy May 18, 2010 PEUGEOT is targeting Audi TT, VW Scirocco, even Mini Cooper S buyers with its new 2+2 seater sports car. Even if you’re the kind of car buyer that usually allows your head to rule your heart the RCZ may still be the car for you. Not only do you get the fun of a sports [...]
Pale, pasty men: it’s time to get yourselves a ‘man tan’ May 17, 2010 ROSS from Friends. Those are the words that seem to spring to people’s lips when you moot the idea of fake tan for men, in reference to the character’s unfortunate run-in with an automatic spray booth in an episode called “the one with Ross’s tan”. Or one thinks of David Dickinson, the telly antiques man [...]
Gamers: boost your health and your game May 17, 2010 ARE you an ardent gamer whose competetive edge is dampened only by sore thumbs, unbalanced hands, tired eyes and back-ache? If so, read on. In honour of the launch of the much-awaited Street Fighter IV last month, personal trainer and all-round fitness guru Laura Williams has joined forces with videogame publisher Capcom to create a “Wellbeing [...]
A body scrub that’s perfect at lunchtime May 17, 2010 Elemis exotic lime and ginger salt glow at the citypoint club **** TWICE last week I stripped down for a strange man. The first was James Read, spray tanner to the stars, based at Agua at The Sanderson (see left). “Hello, just take off all your clothes and put these on,” he said to me, [...]
Mozzarella in Mayfair goes glam May 17, 2010 Cielo/Luxx 3 New Burlington Street W1S 2JF 020 7297 2893 www.cielorestaurant.co.uk, www.luxx-london.com FOOD *** SERVICE **** ATMOSPHERE *** Cost per person without wine: £50 THESE days, being a restaurant plain and simple just isn’t good enough. Since the credit crunch bit, we have entered a new realm of added value, and if you like to [...]
Piggie-shaped cheese hits Sardinia’s chicest enclave May 17, 2010 WHEN the sun doesn’t shine in southern Italy, there is one major comfort. The food. I was reminded of this over the weekend during a trip to Sardinia since it was warmer, sunnier and less windy in London than it was there. And it wasn’t warm in London. Or sunny. Or particularly still. If there [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS May 17, 2010 THE MILROY: NOT JUST FOR MEMBERS Ever heard of The Milroy restaurant? Unless you’re a member of private casino Les Ambassadeurs, probably not. Previously only accessible to members The Milroy has flung open its doors to the hoi palloi for lunch. If the superlative European food, cooked by Simon Foster, previously of Claridge’s and La Tante [...]