The best places to wet your moustache this Movember November 15, 2012 London continues to flourish for Movember, with plenty of drinking dens to moisten your moustache. Take Coya, for instance. Nestled alongside Green Park on Piccadilly, this peerless Peruvian venue comprises of a bar, a restaurant and private members’ area, complete with terraced garden. Opened by Zuma and Arts Club founder Arjun Waney, the design in [...]
The Tate’s exploration of performance and art November 15, 2012 ART A BIGGER SPLASH Tate Modern **** They say you should never see how sausages are made if you want to carry on enjoying them. The same doesn’t always go for art. The last exhibition of the year at the Tate Modern, A Bigger Splash (named after the David Hockney painting, pictured above), focuses on [...]
Hit So Hard is one for die-hard music fans only November 15, 2012 FILM HIT SO HARD Cert 15 ** Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death of Patty Schemel is a documentary about the life of Patty Schemel, the gay red-headed drummer from 90s Courtney Love-fronted grunge band, Hole. The towering personalities of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love cast long, dominating shadows over the legacy of [...]
Face off: battle of the racing giants November 14, 2012 GAMES FORZA HORIZON Xbox 360 | By James Titcomb ***** HORIZON IS the fifth title under the Forza name – a series of elite racing simulators Microsoft set up in 2005 to give the Xbox a rival to the PlayStation’s Gran Turismo. Until now, Forza has seen huge success, both critically and commercially, so it [...]
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 [...]