Whatever the festive period may bring – besides mulled wine, mince pies and some well-deserved* seasonal cheer (*especially if you live in London) – it also brings the pained dilemma of how to say farewell to 2013 and welcome with open loving arms the arrival of 2014. The usual home…
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December 2013
Bacon and quail eggs, steak and kidney dim sum and frog sausages (yes, frog sausages!) aren’t exactly the typical entrees you’d find at your local chinese – but Bo London’s Alvin Cheung isn’t your ordinary chef. With his Michelin-starred status, he has more in common with the experimental zeal we’ve…
Based on the critically acclaimed novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun ambitiously presents a difficult period in Nigerian history through the lives of two privileged sisters and their partners. Olanna (Thandie Newton) and Kainene (Anika Noni Rose) choose to stay in the newly independent Nigeria during…
The festive season seems to have well and truly arrived, a fact clearly confirmed thanks to the inexhaustible droves of shoppers trawling central London on a mission to find the perfect gifts. As if in ode to this, the Almeida theatre’s annual Christmas theatre production has arrived, in the form…
Laure Prouvost’s solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Society couldn’t have come at a better time. Only this week, the French artist was awarded the Turner Prize, amidst an impressive line-up of David Shrigley and hot favourite Tino Sehgal – and earlier in the year, she had won the Max Mara…
The great Euriphides once said that experiences and travel were as “education in themselves” – so throw photography in the mix and you’re pretty much getting a degree in life. That’s the beauty of travel photography: its ability to document the world through stories of people, cultures and landscapes, giving…