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Grand Union bars have been on our radar for a while, so news of their recent food and drinks re-brand peaked our interest – especially as their menu now boasts of hipster-style cocktails, trendy burgers and hot dogs, making this a pretty fun destination for your Friday nights. Drinks-wise, we…
If the 1986 film Gothic is anything to go by, the life of Mary Shelley – author of the ultimate gothic horror novel – was as weird and scandalous as her doctor’s monster. Bringing the life of this novelist to light is a new stage production by LAMDA. The play…
Paint splattered Mickey Mouse toys lace the huge studio of Joyce Pensato and act as inspiration to her larger than life portrait paintings: although her style is a far cry from the Disney Technicolor days. Often working in black and white and adopting a drama more akin to the daubs…
When this exhibition graced the Iraqi pavilion of the 2013 Venice Biennale, the commissioners were keen to make it authentic, even down to serving tea and kleytcha bil joz, Iraqi traditional biscuits. Since the biscuits couldn’t be bought in Italy, an Iraqi expat with a Swedish passport was flown in…
The seated art deco styled interior of the Hammersmith Apollo made for a suitably relaxed venue for experiencing the Robert Glasper Experiment. As a jazz pianist and producer, Glasper won a Grammy for best R&B album with the original Black Radio album in 2013 and has collaborations with Erykah Badu, Jill…
Ask someone to think of the country Rwanda and they will rarely be able to associate it with anything beyond war and genocide. But, 20 years on from the massacre of an estimated 1 million people, the news that the country has found ways to live with its traumatic past…