Wednesday, 19 March 2008

HOT: New York City Ballet London Coliseum

After the debacle of the dire Pina Bausch, I felt that I owed Debora a decent night out at the ballet. Luckily, the world famous NYC ballet ...
Friday, 14 March 2008

HOT: Unfinished Sky London Australian Film Festival at Barbican Centre

A fantastic film set in country Queensland about a loner out in the bush who helps a battered Afghan illegal immigrant woman who stumbles do...
Wednesday, 12 March 2008

NOT: Tough Time, Nice Time, Barbican Centre

Another bizarre undertaking from Ridiculusmus, all of which takes place with them naked on stage in a spa bath. Unfortunately not very funny...
Tuesday, 11 March 2008

HOT: Much Ado about Nothing, National Theatre

I had originally thought this would not be worth seeing - two middle aged actors playing the lovers Beatrice and Benedict? However, sometime...
Monday, 10 March 2008

HOT: The Home Song Stories, London Australian Film Festival, Barbican Centre

Oh wow. A stunning, moving and shocking film based on the true life of Tony Ayres, a Chinese boy who immigrated with his nightclub singer mo...
Sunday, 9 March 2008

HOT: Duchamp, Man Ray, Picaba at Tate Modern

The pioneers of modernism still have the ability to provoke, 80 years later. Even if the only reaction is of confusion. This exhibition is q...
Friday, 7 March 2008

HOT: Noise, London Australian Film Festival at Barbican Centre

The Pit cinema at the Barbican was a fantastic cinema which reminded me of ACMI in Melbourne - plush wide seats and sloped stadium seating. ...
Thursday, 6 March 2008

HOT: Salome at Royal Opera House

My second opera experience at the ROH was very different to the Magic Flute. This production of Salome was set in an underground, starkly ti...
Wednesday, 5 March 2008

HOT: The Bread Shop 296 Chiswick High Road

I have the sort of stomach which means eating too much bread over consecutive days can do strange things to my digestion. Therefore, spelt, ...
Sunday, 24 February 2008

HOT: Be Kind Rewind at Odeon Whiteleys

In the words of one of the characters, 'a movie with heart' from the director of 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' and...
Saturday, 23 February 2008

HOT: Say Nothing at Barbican

The Ridiculusmus retrospective brought this two-man, three-character play about the Northern Irish conflict back from the vault. I think it ...

HOT: Ally Capellino, 9 Calvert Avenue, Old Street

The wooden rustic store smells of leather when you walk in and every bag is touchable and covetable. I had gone there on a Huy-inspired pilg...

HOT: Sketch Parlour, 9 Conduit Street, Soho

Huy had been trying to wrangle afternoon tea at Sketch for a long time and I finally had some spare time in my diary :) Sketch is a fantasti...

HOT: The Boss of It All, Institute of Contemporary Art The Mall

A very funny film (albeit a bit long) from Danish Dogma director Lars Von Trier. The film is set in a software company and involves the mach...
Friday, 22 February 2008

HOT: NME Shockwaves Awards Tour 2008, Brixton Academy Brixton

The Brixton Academy is one cool venue and a great place for people watching - although I felt like I was a middle-aged crank staring at all ...
Thursday, 21 February 2008

NOT: Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal at Sadler's Wells

I didn't think I was that much of a modern dance dunce but I hated this extremely influential work, the 'unmissable modern dance eve...