Pride in London: How to avoid crowds or party with the masses PRIDE GUIDE Making a noise about Gender Recognition Act reforms or just, well, making a noise, here’s where to spend Pride in London this weekend After a few dreary weather days it’s looking up for Pride in London on Saturday, where over 1.5 million queer people and allies will fill the streets of the West End with [...]
Glastonbury 2022 exclusive: Boris Johnson and Priti Patel lookalikes an alternative highlight GLASTONBURY EXCLUSIVE It’s not all about Macca and Billie Eilish, don’t you know? Some of Glastonbury’s best areas involve no music at all. For instance, the Theatre & Circus fields are some of the festival’s oldest areas, where performers surprise punters with spontaneous shows as they pass by, and there are full-scale acrobatics pieces that you’d pay [...]
Glastonbury 2022: Protest and celebration as festival roars back GLASTONBURY RETURNS It’s been an anxious three years for Glastonbury, but this weekend the most important and influential of the UK’s music festivals, and one of the most essential stages in the world, returned for the first time since 2019. Did it rain? Of course it did – but only a little bit. Late afternoon crowds on [...]
Where to eat to support Ukraine and learn about the country’s fabulous cuisine June 22, 2022 One of Ukraine’s most famous chefs is hosting a series of fundraising pop-ups, with a London restaurant on the way. Yurri Kovryzhenko, one of only two Ukrainian chefs mentioned in the Michelin guide, will be cooking next Monday 27 June at City Social at a fundraising dinner in collaboration with chefs like Jason Atherton and [...]
Festivals like Glastonbury aren’t about music, they’re about friendship June 22, 2022 Research tells us that many of us in densely-populated cities are lonely. For a period of my life, I feared Saturdays, spending half the week drumming up a plan so I wasn’t alone, but often I was anyway. This shouldn’t happen in your twenties, but it does. Festivals offer an escape, a weekend in a [...]
Alex Webb at Number One Park Lane: A thrillride of British flavours June 22, 2022 It’s clear that Alex Webb – loveable Essex boy and Masterchef winner 2020 – truly gives a well-seasoned asparagus about British eating and drinking. When I asked for a glass of wine at his London pop-up simply called Alex Webb at Number One Park Lane, I forgot our shores and thought of a sharp New [...]
A twin-city break in charming Andalucia is now easier than ever June 20, 2022 “There should be more therapy involving fish,” says Carmen, my guide at the Riofrío caviar farm in the sleepy village of the same name, halfway between Granada and Malaga. Carmen’s crouching down and gazing into one of a dozen ten-metre-long pools of water. Behind her the backdrop of the angular Loja Mountains is framed by [...]
Jurassic Park’s sound designer reveals the secret sounds of the dinosaurs June 17, 2022 For sound designer Al Nelson, jobs don’t come much bigger than Jurassic Park. When the technician started out in the industry in the late nineties, one of his first big jobs was The Lost World, Steven Spielberg’s follow-up to Jurassic Park, the film which birthed the seismic dinosaur franchise. In the 25 years since, Nelson [...]
My Fair Lady review: Polished production lacks energy June 17, 2022 “Wouldn’t it be loverly,” Eliza Doolittle wonders in My Fair Lady, dreaming of a life of chocolate, heat and warm feet. Let me put it to Eliza: wouldn’t it also be ‘loverly’ if more musicals had the audacity to radically rethink their tired misogynistic plots like this version of My Fair Lady does? Musicals have [...]
Laurel’s review: Partying poolside, I forgot how hungry I was June 9, 2022 It’s long been a trope of the London restaurant scene to deck out pokey shoebox venues – no doubt rented at extortionate cost – as if they are luxurious, hedonistic beach clubs. God knows how many thousands of tonnes of sand is dumped over car parks round the back of the Roundhouse in Camden and [...]
