Wednesday, 19 March 2008

HOT: New York City Ballet London Coliseum

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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 ...
Saturday, 15 March 2008

NOT: The History Boys, Wynham Theatre

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Yalin and I were unable to work out how this schlock was the winner of numerous Tony Awards (including for Best Play). Unrealistic, self-imp...
Friday, 14 March 2008

HOT: Unfinished Sky London Australian Film Festival at Barbican Centre

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

HOT: Story Deli, 3 Dray Walk, Truman Brewery, Aldgate

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Caroline had been raving about the organic pizza restaurant near her house but I'd never had the opportunity to go as I was always eatin...

HOT: Ally Capellino, 9 Calvert Avenue, Old Street

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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: Huwundeki, 34 Marshall St, Soho

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A cool underground shop selling vintage clothes and new clothes with a bit of a retro feel. It seemed to be full of Asians (maybe because of...

HOT: Sketch Parlour, 9 Conduit Street, Soho

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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

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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

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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 ...

NOT: Baan Thai, 401 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton

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When I couldn't remember the Ethiopian restaurant I visited in Brixton last time, I decided to try a highly recommended Thai restaurant ...
Thursday, 21 February 2008

NOT: Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal at Sadler's Wells

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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...