Cheltenham Festival fever hits the City again March 8, 2015 PATRICK CALLAGHAN REPORTS FROM UNIBET’S CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL PREVIEW EVENT AT THE BREWERY HAVING been treated to some belting stories from Arsenal legend Paul Merson, the last guest interviewed at the Unibet-sponsored City A.M. Long Lunch on Friday afternoon, those that ventured downstairs after for the Cheltenham Festival Preview were in good spirits. Chaired by Channel [...]
Exhibition review: Beard is not to be missed if you like facial foliage March 6, 2015 Somerset House | ★★★★☆ Beards are big. Literally. You can’t walk down Kingsland Road without being tickled by the bristles of a hirsute gentleman. And now you can’t walk through the grand exhibition space of Somerset House without a beard to the retina. Style photographer Mr Elbank has a new exhibition showcasing the magnificence [...]
Theatre review: Game is nasty and brutish – but effective March 6, 2015 Almeida Theatre | ★★★★☆ Game at the Almeida is a disturbing collage of contemporaneousness that aims a poison-tipped dart at a number of hot-button issues ranging from the shortage of affordable homes to our reality TV obsession. Writer Mike Bartlett and designer-directors Sacha Wares and Miriam Buether have gone to extreme lengths to realise their [...]
Film review: Unfinished Business is a bit like watching paint dry March 6, 2015 Cert 15 | ★★☆☆☆ Unfinished Business might sound like a badass film in which Charles Bronson guns down the fat-cats whose corporate greed killed his daughter, but sadly it’s about Vince Vaughn (pictured), Tom Wilkinson and James Franco’s little brother trying to score a contract to sell metal shavings to a multinational conglomerate. It’s not [...]
Film review: Still Alice March 6, 2015 Cert 12a | ★★★☆☆ For all the horror genre’s attempts to scare us with demonic possession and serial killers, real terror rarely lies in external threat but in the machinations of the mind. By that logic, Still Alice is one of the most haunting films released in years, as it charts one intelligent, vivacious woman’s [...]
Moody: Leave Robshaw out for Scotland match March 6, 2015 Time to audition England captaincy alternatives, says 2003 hero Lewis WORLD Cup winner Lewis Moody has called for England captain Chris Robshaw to be omitted when his side bid to resurrect their Six Nations challenge against Scotland at Twickenham next week. Robshaw has skippered England throughout Stuart Lancaster’s tenure as head coach, although the Harlequins [...]
Art review: Inventing Impressionism is a joyous exhibition March 5, 2015 National Gallery | ★★★★☆ So familiar are the impressionists that it can be difficult to gain a sense of how revolutionary they were from our vantage point in the 21st century. The National Gallery, in its small but perfectly balanced new exhibition Inventing Impressionism, has come up with an ingenious way of evoking their iconoclasm [...]
Something for the weekend March 5, 2015 Our guide to the best things to eat, drink, watch and do, from yoga in an Alpine lodge to a skeletal horse in Trafalgar Square. Make sure you don’t miss out. EAT! SLOW FOOD & LIVING MARKET Head over to the Rosewood hotel in Holborn this weekend for a food market with an ethical twist. [...]
Evans spit was natural action, says Van Gaal March 5, 2015 MANCHESTER United manager Louis van Gaal has defended Jonny Evans over his spitting row with Newcastle’s Papiss Cisse, insisting the defender was only doing “something natural” by spitting on the floor. Cisse last night accepted a Football Association (FA) charge of spitting at Evans and is now set to face a seven-match ban, a harsher punishment [...]
MLS strike avoided after talks go into injury time March 5, 2015 AMERICA’S most eagerly anticipated Major League Soccer season to date is set to kick off tonight after the threat of strike action was averted just 48 hours before the first match. Four days of negotiations between the players’ union and the league finally resulted in a new collective bargaining agreement and avoided a humiliating delay [...]