I was lucky enough to get invited to last week’s Mercury Prize, and although my after-work race to get there from east to west (well, Southwark Bridge to Mayfair) was somewhat stressful (I was cycling, due to the tube strike, and then for some reason the entire Strand was cordoned off), it was well worth [...]
Archive for the ‘Going Out’ Category
The music and the Mercury Prize
Posted in Going Out, Listening, tagged Laura Marling, mercury music prize, Mumford and Sons, spanish sahara, the xx on September 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Deconstructing Tarzan
Posted in Going Out, Thinking, tagged edgar rice burroughs, king kong, musee du quai branly, tarzan, tarzan and the apes on July 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
When Edgar Rice Burroughs was 35, he decided to try his hand at pulp fiction. He’d already been a soldier, a railway policeman and a pencil sharpener wholesaler. Inspired by the pulp magazines in which his pencil sharpeners were advertised, he concluded that he could write stories “just as entertaining, and probably a whole lot [...]
In cinemas from tomorrow: Burn After Reading
Posted in Going Out, tagged burn after reading on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Trailer of the Week back in June; hitting your local this week. Good news.
Rufus Wainwright at Kenwood
Posted in Going Out, Listening, tagged kenwood house, rufus wainwright on July 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve just seen the delectable Rufus playing at Kenwood House on Hampstead Heath and it was a dream. Although the skies had glowered on-and-off all day, there was, miraculously, no rain, and we sat in our striped deckchairs and drank in his luscious voice along with free fruit cider and a gradual music-drawn moonlight. I’d [...]
Sushi wraps on Fleet Street
Posted in Going Out, tagged abokado, fleet street, sushi wrap on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dashing from work to an evening film screening, I knew I had to eat something sustaining to prevent serious tummy rumblings. But I didn’t have time for a sit-down meal. What to do? Another sandwich? The health/taste showdown is now of course far less common than in the glory days of Ronald Macdonald and Greggs [...]
The Scoop
Posted in Going Out, Watching, tagged hitchcock, laurence olivier, morelondon, rebecca, the scoop on June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ever since Grease I’ve wanted to go to a drive-thru cinema. The next best thing – actually better as it’s zero carbon – is The Scoop‘s outdoor film screenings, held in a mini Roman amphitheatre on the banks of the Thames (just in front of City Hall). “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley [...]
On epistaxis and what it tells us about dating
Posted in Going Out, tagged dating, he's just not that into you, nosebleeds, relationships on May 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I went on a date last week. Ok, ok, I wouldn’t normally blog about this but I’ve read a few pieces of relationship-commentary recently (why married men cheat, why cheating’s still not ok, why clever women fall for second-rate men) and it’s all very thought-provoking. In the spirit of Carrie Bradshaw I guess I could [...]
The Waterhouse, Orsman Road
Posted in Going Out, tagged acorn house, orsman road, the waterhouse restaurant on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been meaning to post about this for a-a-ages but got sidetracked. A new restaurant opened a few months ago on my side of town, called The Waterhouse. Under normal circumstances it would be the kind of place I could only afford to buy a starter at, but I was lucky enough to be taken [...]
Heaven and Hell
Posted in Going Out, Watching, tagged almeida, jesus hopped the a-train, joseph mawle, judas iscariot, stephen adly guirgis, the last days of judas iscariot on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday I saw ‘The Last Days of Judas Iscariot‘ at the Almeida. The lights went down to reveal a stage littered with broken grey slate tiles; like a room half-built, with a single chair in the centre and a couple of scruffy desks at each side. This was purgatory, otherwise known as ‘Hope’, and [...]
Of gated baths and captives
Posted in Going Out, Listening, tagged a cork tale wake, captive state, chris bathgate, juliet murphy photos, slaughtered lamb on April 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Chris Bathgate is a singer-songwriter from the Michigan town of Ann Arbor. On Friday I went to hear him play at the rather lovely Slaughtered Lamb in Clerkenwell. Bathgate’s sound is folk dosed with a kind of experimental post-classical grandeur; glued together with scholarly, poetic lyrics it’s a beguiling and often transcendent mix. Have a [...]
Never again? It’s happening right now
Posted in Going Out, Thinking, tagged Aegis Trust, Darfur, Global Day for Darfur, Jonathan Freedland, Nick Clegg, Sudan on April 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today was the London marathon. But at just after midday, before the streets started to fill with hundreds of shivering, traumatized-looking people cloaked in silver foil, the area around Pall Mall got busy anyway. Because today was also the fifth Global Day for Darfur. As I walked towards the Sudanese Embassy on Cleveland Row, I [...]
Bardens Boudoir: A Jewel in Dalston’s Crown
Posted in Going Out, Listening on March 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m getting very fond of Dalston, despite the unexpected opening of a shop called ‘Hot Nuts’ just a few moments from our front door (I can’t really blame them for calling it that as it sells nothing but hot nuts, but it does sound a bit odd). The most recent local charm to win my [...]
Wahaca. Which now means yum.
Posted in Going Out on November 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday, I had the pleasure of a unique culinary experience. So good was it, that I would wager it won’t stay unique for long, as good ideas in restaurant-land spread fast. But for one day, walking into Wahaca in Chandos Place, I felt a bit like Lucy in the Lion, the Witch and the [...]
Blog:
Posted in Going Out on March 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Church on the Corner Brilliantly informative, often surprising, illuminating and entertaining. This is what church should be about.
Galatians
Posted in Going Out, Thinking on November 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Went to a new church today and was really inspired by the teaching, which was on Galatians, a book of which I am woefully ignorant. It’s so great to discover bits of the Bible that immediately sound their truth and speak so eloquently what one has felt instinctively but not been able to fully define: [...]
An exhibition
Posted in Going Out on November 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Visiting ‘Fischli and Weiss: Flowers & Questions’ last weekend was a rare treat: an exhibition that was mainly just a lot of fun. That might sound strange – perhaps people who go to lots of exhibitions would argue they’re all fun in some way. But to me it seems that too often art takes itself [...]
