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Articles tagged with ‘Night out’
Film Review: The Flowers of War
Chinese director, Yimou Zhang, is already known...
Vauxhall Ampera x Super/Collider Science Weekend
Not doing much this weekend, or ar...
Film Review: Take Shelter
Film Review: Bel Ami
Restaurant Review: Palmers
A good month ago now, Helena and I decided to go to Palmers on the Roman...
Bar Review: The O Bar
Being told that the venue for a night out had changed from a bar...
Lifestyle: Is the morning after really worth the night before?
My irritatingly cheery alarm woke me...
Fashion: The Multi-tasking Skirt
Now here’s a challenge – finding a garment that looks just as good with heels as it does with flats...
Club Review: funkybuddha
When planning a luxury girl’s night out we decided to head to the notorious funkybuddha. Having been refurbished in 2011, we were
Review: Richmond Nightlife
Taking a break from the bustle and buzz of central London, we headed to the...
London: Last rounds for First Out
Gay nightlife in the capital suffered another blow this month as well-known café First Out...
Review: Foundation Bar
A recent rendezvous with friends at Foundation Bar introduced me to London’s underground cocktail...
Night Out: The Blitz Party
I love the idea of the 40s; men were men, women were ladies, the pub was Facebook...
Back to the… Future of Vintage Fashion
During London Fashion Week, all the papers buzzed with the...
Review: Crazy, Stupid, Love
Crazy, Stupid, Love comes out tomorrow, but is this rom-com worthy of your time? Find out here...
Restaurant Review: Song Que
Song Que undoubtedly is the Vietnamese princess of Kingsland Road in Shoreditch, the little Vietnam of...
Iron Maiden: Old Rockers with New Tricks
Iron Maiden are at a stage in their lives where they no longer churn out ten month long tours every year...
Preview: Eastern Electrics Warehouse Party
Coming to a warehouse near you, Eastern Electrics...
Competition: The Roots
The Roots are playing a gig at the Hammersmith Apollo on the 19 August and...
Review: Pygmalion at Garrick Theatre
My first thought about this play was that it was going to be the...
One to Avoid? Opera in Holland Park
Premiered in Paris in 1843, Donizetti’s late opera Don Pasquale is a comic masterpiece of the Italian Bel Canto...
BBC Proms: A Promising Start to the Season
My first Prom was almost ruined when Martha Argerich called off her performance this year...
Mid-Summer Night’s Proms
If you’re in London this summer, don’t miss one of the world’s largest music festivals...
I Go, You Go, We All Go to Bingo
Britain's been bingo-ing mad for a while now, so with that in mind...
Review: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; Guildenstern and Rosencrantz: two minor characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet who...
Outdoor Cinema
It’s something we’ve all seen in those cheesy American teen movies. An incredibly...
An Interview with “Them Changes”
In the basement of a Costa Coffee Shop, I met with up and coming new band "Them Changes". Self described as a...
Preview: The Roots at the Hammersmith Apollo
With a career almost spanning a quarter of a century, hip-hop/neo soul group The Roots have been influencing and transforming the...
Review: Ronnie Scott’s
Since moving to London, my love life has been somewhat of a disaster. But sat in front of a...
Intel’s Summer Pub Smash
Free meat platters, an open bar, the most mysterious chocolate cryptic codes known to humanity and the biggest spot...
Shoreditch Incognito
Ah Shoreditch, it’s so cool. And it knows it too. So here is an evening-full of venues that you have to look
Preview: Welcome to the Dollhouse
Amy Grimehouse is back with a vengeance on Wednesday 15 June and will be bringing its unique brand...
London’s Summer Literary Festivals
My ideal summer would be spent lazing in the garden/park/on the beach with a pile of good books...
Theatre Review: The School for Scandal at The Barbican Centre
Within the first five minutes of Deborah Warner’s production of The School for Scandal my friend and I had exchanged approximately four
Review: No One Knows About Persian Cats
In a time when various filmmakers and musicians advocate stricter laws in response of the downloading of their...
Twenty One Bare Skinned Bodies
For his debut at Sadler’s Wells, Dave St-Pierre choreographs unreserved truthfulness and courage...
Amy Grimehouse: Whatever Happened to Hollywood Glam?
As the spectators and myself make our way into the venue, we are received by the...
Review: Insidious
There hasn't been much in the way of original content in the horror genre. After years of visceral torture...
Review: The Barber of Seville at The King’s Head Theatre
If someone had told me a song about chicken soup would sit comfortably within an opera...
Review: Julia’s Eyes (Los Ojos de Julia)
Such as a dead man tells no tales, a blind man sees no evil, or so director Guillem Morales would have you...
Review: Kaboom
I'm at the opening night of the 25th annual Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. There's a...
Review: Jack Falls
Jack Falls was recently screened at the London Independent Film Festival, with director Paul Tanter providing the audience with an...
Review: The Hangover: Part Two
After the surprise success of the original Todd Philips film, The Hangover Part II sees the return of Phil (Bradley Cooper), Alan...
Review: Becoming Chaz
Anyone who is familiar with Cher and Sonny Bono's daughter Chastity will know that this documentary...
Band Review: This Club
The Dublin based band returned to London for the first time in four years, to play the...
Theatre Review: Choephori
As we congregate inside a church concealed within a cove of skyscrapers, half of us typing franticly on our BlackBerrys...
Weekly round-up | 19 May – 25 May
This week we have seen some interesting and inspiring articles! We’ve also...
East End Film Festival – World Cinema: Drama
Following on from World: Documentary at the East End Film Festival, Intrepid reviewer...
East End Film Festival – World Cinema: Documentary
A culmination of cultural ambiguity begins with The Talking Walls of Lahore, a street view of wall chalking or "wall talking" as...
Review: Stag and Dagger
As five hour events go, this one packed a potent punch. 19 May was the fourth annual...
Review: La Bohème at the King’s Head Theatre
A door at the back of a quirky Islington tavern opens and the audience diffuse into...
Restaurant Review: Bistro du Vin
Whether you work, live or play in the City it can...
Review: Submarine
The IT Crowd’s Richard Ayoade’s debut British film Submarine was...
Eurovision: Top 10 Amazing Performances
Eurovision has had a mix of great, weird, funny and...
Eurovision: A Recurring Nightmare
Around January/February time a nagging thought excites me and I...
Preview: Amy Grimehouse Presents ‘Whatever Happened To Mommie Dearest’
Not to be confused with the bouffant haired songstress, Amy Grimehouse is a...
Ivy Rising to the Top
If I surveyed a hundred people, asking them a very simple question; “Have you ever heard of...
Competition: Shaun Ryder at Proud2
It’s that time again! Our lovely friends at Proud2 are giving away...
A Guide to London’s Festivals
Exams will soon be over, the sunshine is here to stay, and there’s...
Cult Movies: The Crème de la Crème
Cult movies represent real film-making. Created outside the Hollywood...
Review: Hamlet at the Globe
Anyone who expects to see a heartbreaking production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Globe theatre this...
Restaurant Review: The Breakfast Club
It is said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. I think it’s the best meal and struggle to
Tomokiyo – The Slaughtered Lamb 07/04/11
London based three piece Tomokiyo seem talented enough in their...
Preview: Stag and Dagger Festival
Come one! Come all! On 19 May Shoreditch will hold the annual Stag and Dagger festival...
Restaurant Review: The Abingdon – Sticky Toffee worth traveling to West London
West London isn’t traditionally thought of as a...
Chipmunk Launch Party Review
We asked one of our competition winners, Matthew Clayden, to let us...
Review: Macbeth at the House of Detention
Tired of watching traditional Shakespeare? Don’t fancy standing-up...
Review: Cause Célèbre at the Old Vic Theatre
In celebration of the centenary of Terence Rattigan’s birth, The Old Vic brings his last play to stage...
Interview: Heathers
Heathers are an acoustic indie folk duo. The Irish twin sisters Ellie and Louise Macnamara began...
Review: Thor
Kenneth Branagh has had some stick for his directing over the years. This isn’t the case with Thor...
Preview: East End Film Festival
I’ve always liked film festivals. The atmosphere is always electric because you find yourself...
CHIPMUNK Competition Now CLOSED
Pin It Well it’s officially over. We have looked through the list of submissions and are pleased to announce that the 5
Jameson Whiskey Cult Film Club
Are you a fan of great film and free drinks? If so then Jameson Cult Film Club is definitely for you...
Preview: Summer Series with American Express at Somerset House
If you’re anything like the above then you should check out...
Review: Faster
When an action film is called Faster you go in expecting a few things. One thought is a tag line that manages...
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros at The Old Vic Tunnels
Whispers echoed around the tunnels, but who am I to arbitrate whether Edward Sharpe and Co's five...
Review: Red Riding Hood
This was not how I expected my first premiere to go: from the mis-introduction of the evening’s hosts at Kiss FM...
Competition: Win Tickets to see CHIPMUNK
Like to write Film or Music reviews? Want to win tickets to celebrate the release of a highly-anticipated second album?
The Swan Swings On
If the Oscar-winning film, Black Swan, has given you a taste for classical ballet, then why not go and see the real
Review: Tomorrow, When the War Began
Being something of a book snob I tended to spurn ‘Young Adult’ fiction as a teenager, but when I stumbled...
Review: Far East Movement’s “Free Wired”
You probably remember the start of 2011 chiming the words “like a blizzard” in an obscenely exaggerated...
Screentest Festival: The National Student Festival
Last weekend a new, exciting and promising event burst onto the capital's ever flowing cultural spectrum...
Review: The Brother’s Size a RADA Production
A long, languorous note is drawn out slowly out on the violin, evoking...
Dazed Live
Dazed & Confused, in their 19th year, is preparing to host a big old party set in a number of venues...
Review: Jaga Jazzist | The Scala London
Multi-member Norwegian Nu Jazz stalwarts, Jaga Jazzist have been bringing their distinct brand...
Review: Swan Lake at the Coliseum
The English National Ballet’s revival of one of the world’s most-loved...
Review: Sucker Punch
An abysmal display is the only way to describe Zack Snyder's first "original film"...
Review: The Adjustment Bureau
Can you defy fate? If given the option of having a successful career or being with the person you love most...
Review: Greenland at the National Theatre
For the rare few who are blissfully unaware of humanities' impending doom, as a result of climate change, the super...
Review: You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
I had no pre-conceptions about this film as it had been a while since I'd seen a Woody Allen film. Overall...
MouthLondon Book Club March Meeting!
The next meeting of the Book Club is set and we have some treats in store for you...
Review: The Rite
The French (Dis)Connection
There are not many cities that are polar opposites, but Marseilles and Paris are exactly that. Marseilles is...
Restaurant Review: Brawn
Brawn, which has just opened on Columbia Road in the fashionable East End, is the sister restaurant of the much loved...
Restaurant Review: Tapas Brindisa
Tapas Brindisa is a small tapas restaurant/wine bar serving a renowned selection of Spanish cured meats and cheese, exclusively Spanish...
Films to look out for in 2011
Last year the silver screen was once again dominated by sequels and re-makes with seven of them...
EXCLUSIVE Naming a Mountain: The Problems of “Sound Art”
Visit the Store: Full Content available in the Spring 2011 Issue... Artist and musician Jem Finer’s Longplayer is, famously, the longest...
Editor’s Art Choice: Adam & Eve
I never thought much of Barnett Newman. Despite abstract expressionism being one of my favourite artistic movements, his paintings never...
Review: Gabriel Orozco at the Tate Modern
A human skull covered in chequered squares, sunken sockets staring eerily out at the viewer, ragged teeth in full view. This is...
EXCLUSIVE You’ve gotta Kiss a lotta Frogs…
Visit the Store: Full Content available in the Spring 2011 Issue... In the last six months, life has got incredibly interesting...
Baby it’s still Cold outside
As the wintery weather lingers on and it seems the cold will never leave us, the temptation to...
Review: Paul
I was lucky enough to go along to a special screening of this film in which I was surrounded by an audience...
Review: Killing Bono
Dynamic, funny and real, the film tells a story of the McCorrmy brothers’ vain efforts to make their way through the 80s...
Review: Modern British Sculpture at RA
It wasn’t until I came face-to-face with the massive pendular penis of Jacob Epstein’s Adam that I realised the intent of...
Review: Off the Page
In the stunning setting of Regent’s college, surrounded by beautiful parkland and magnificent buildings, up-and-coming screen writers are offered the opportunity to...
Review: Romantics at Tate Britain
The Romantic exhibition in the Clore gallery at Tate Britain shows JMW Turner alongside works from his peers. It is...
Review: The Piano Cemetery
José Luis Peixoto is Portugal’s most celebrated young novelist. In The Piano Cemetery, his second release in English, he fictionalises...
Review: Bridget Riley Paintings at the NG
One enters the Sunley Room to find a space in which time stands still and calm reigns. It would be...
EXCLUSIVE “Proud” to be Different
Visit the Store: Full Content available in the Spring 2011 Issue... Converted from a two hundred year old, Grade 2 listed horse hospital...
Review: The Fighter
I had three rather large concerns walking into the preview screening of director David O. Russell’s The Fighter. Firstly...
Review: Sanctum
Not even support from James Cameron as executive producer could save 3D underwater adventure Sanctum from getting that sinking feeling...
Chromaroma
Chromaroma is an online platform that takes the real-life experience of travelling around London to a new level...
5 bars for a “don’t blow the budget” date
There is nothing better than going on a fantastic date, whether it’s your first or twenty-first. You want to go somewhere interesting...
MouthLondon Launch Party 1st March 2011
We had a great night at the Agenda Bar, City of London, raising money for...
Review: Yogi Bear
Simply put, Yogi has failed in attempting that oh-so-hard trick to pull off – the mixing of CGI and reality...
Review: True Grit
A remake of True Grit was inevitably going to surface sooner or later, but fortunately it is the Coen brothers...
Review: Rabbit Hole
A married couple struggles to revert to a peaceful life, after their four-year-old son dies in a car accident...
Review: The Stanley Blacks
The Stanley Blacks, together for almost two years now, are clearly a...
Review: Morning Glory
To write an excessively critical review of this film would be like bullying the bubbly, over-eager child who...
Review: Turner Prize 2010
This year’s Turner Prize exhibition has mostly avoided the platitudes normally levelled on it by...
EXCLUSIVE Because it was Chopin…
If Paris can boast its rivière gauche with the intellectual Latin Quartier, London can...
No Sex in the City
Review: Made In Dagenham
The opening of the film reveals the numbers: 55,000 men and 187 women. The vast difference between men and…
Review: The Social Network
Broken friendships, a ruthless rivalry, the inception of the greatest...
EXCLUSIVE Review: Is Tropical | Maria and the Mirrors
Before heading out on tour with Mystery Jets for the next few weeks, Is Tropical played a final…
The Prince Charles Cinema
There is a time and a place for enjoying Leicester Square, but when you have had enough of...