FOCUS ON: COLCHESTER, ESSEX June 11, 2009 FARTHINGS, GREAT HORKESLEY, CO6 4EQPrice: £1.25mThis imposing 1930s country house is just five miles north of Colchester, which is just under an hour from Liverpool Street. The accommodation is split over three floors and there are five bedrooms. From the first floor landing is a conservatory, leading out to a covered balcony. The drawing room [...]
Summer sparklers June 11, 2009 SWEATY days in the city and holidays in blue-skied paradises do not warrant clunky jewellery. In hot weather, elegance is all. This summer it’s easier than ever to find jewellery that embodies the languorous feeling that comes with sunshine. Here we have picked a small sample of gorgeous pieces that are both luxurious, serious jewels [...]
DRESSING LIKE A DUDE ON HOLIDAY June 11, 2009 Sara HollambyStyle Counsel A LOT of guys ask me how to carry off “casual”. It’s a difficult question. Unlike when you are wearing a business suit where it’s just a case of the sharper the better, being casual is almost the opposite: you want it to look like you haven’t bothered. But you have to make [...]
Q&A: SALES June 11, 2009 Camilla DellMANAGING DIRECTOR AT BLACK BRICK Q. Dear Camilla, there has ben a lot of talk recently about property prices starting to rise. Is this true, and should I be thinking of buying? A. These things are never straightforward. When you look back at housing data and statistics from the last property market crash, there [...]
From Russia with laughs June 11, 2009 TheatreTHE CHERRY ORCHARDThe Old VicTHIS new production by Sam Mendes is one half of a double bill under the title of The Bridge Project, conceived by Mendes and Old Vic artistic director Kevin Spacey to bring together an Anglo-American company touring two productions at once. The other show is Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale. It might [...]
King Cantona plays it for laughs in Ken Loach charmer June 11, 2009 FilmLOOKING FOR ERIC AS everyone knows, this film stars Eric Cantona, but the Eric of the title is not the famous French footballer. It is Eric Bishop, a Mancunian postie in his forties whose life is falling apart as he loses control of the two stepsons he is bringing up after his second wife left [...]
OUT THIS WEEKEND PREVIEWS June 11, 2009 FILMTHE HANGOVER Screwball – and very funny – buddy comedy set in Las Vegas. RED CLIFF Action director John Woo moves into spectacular war epic territory. THE END OF THE LINE Documentary about the fishing industry that’s got everyone worrying about tuna. DVDANVIL! Hilarious documentary following Canada’s real life Spinal Tap. BOLT Enjoyable canine animation that [...]
NOW SHOWING SIX OF THE BEST June 11, 2009 PERFORMANCE: Tom Tom Crew A smash hit on Broadway, the Aussie group combining acrobatics, beat-boxing, drumming and scratch DJing are headlining the Southbank’s Udderbelly performance tent. ART: The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition The RA’s annual display and sale of thousands of works by artists from Britain and around the world. THEATRE: Kursk The Young Vic’s [...]
When weather is a matter of life and death June 10, 2009 TURBULENCEBy Giles FodenFABER & FABER, £16.99 GILES FODEN’S The Last King of Scotland was a masterful book and became a masterful film because of its compelling combination of historical fact, fiction and painstakingly realised detail in an unusual context. It is reason enough for Turbulence, his latest piece of historical fiction, to be read with [...]
Green & shoots more June 10, 2009 THE British salad is the last part of our home-grown cuisine to reach the level of the rest. We’ve got pies, roasts, pork bellies and mash down pat. Our heritage puddings have come back new and improved (sticky toffee pudding and creme brulee are the best they’ve been in London’s top restaurants now) and our [...]