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Say what you like about Gordon Ramsay – and boy oh boy, people do – but while he’s had a few hits and misses in recent years, and been in the public eye more for his extra-culinary activities than for anything he’s done at a stove, his roll-call of restaurants and protégés…
Plot: The 2008 presidential elections in Ghana, West Africa serve as a backdrop for this feature documentary that looks behind-the-scenes at the complex, political machinery of a 3rd world democracy struggling to legitimize itself to its first world contemporaries. At stake in this race are the fates of two political…
Before working for Diesel, I was surprised by how people spoke of sample sales with such buzz and anticipation. I generally thought of them as a regular sale, but when an event was announced at work, the entire building went hysterical. Why? One colleague explained that a sample sale was…
I am…from Florida and started living it up in London while technically residing in Cambridge, from the Spring of 2009. London hasn’t really gotten rid of me since. I spend my days working on two start-ups: The Note Well, a music friendship project, and USApplicants, a tutoring and mentoring company for students…
When it comes to our fair capital, we’re a geeky bunch at GLP. So when the opportunity arose to spend a couple of hours in a taxi with a London- obsessed cab driver with a history degree, well we jumped at the chance. But then Graham Greenglass is no ordinary…
Ever since the August riots, trendy, energetic areas like Hackney and neighbouring Dalston have felt distinctly less boisterous and a little more subdued. However, it’s clear that the east end’s manifesto of creativity and entrepreneurialism is still very much alive. Evidence of the area’s continued regeneration includes the recent opening of…