La Porte des Indes – Review
Standing outside La Porte des Indes it's difficult to know what to expect. Neighbouring a Grade II-listed Edwardian Gothic Revival church and amongst the familiar stock bricked houses of the neighbourhood it was more reminiscent of an out-of-place Italian eatery than the Edwardian ballroom I'd read about, but once we walked through into the restaurant area, it was like walking back in time…in a good way. In fact the “gateway to India” name and the menu makes a nod to the food of Pondicherry, which was a...
Ca’puccino – Review
By Charlotte Hope, Lifestyle Editor @charlottehope I like cocktails a lot. There, I said it. I like drinking them, I like looking at them, I like making them, and I like drinking them. I normally err on the side of gin-based cocktails, but for whatever reason this has been the summer that the Aperol Spritz has come into its own. Clever marketing enterprising on a lust for the Italian way of life (minus the political corruption and bunga-bunga parties) has...
Muse Head into the Studio
By Alex Wignall Muse have stepped into the studio to record their seventh studio LP - it needs to be their best yet. Rewind the clock to five past ten on June, 17th 2007 - Matt Bellamy and co. are exiting the stage at the highest point of their career to date. They’ve just conquered a sold-out Wembley Stadium with two incendiary performances that have cemented their place as the best live act in Britain if not the world. It’s...
7/10/14
By Charlotte Hope, Lifestyle Editor @charlottehope Blake Lively is pregnant OH! The pitter patter of tiny little feet is upon us. Last week, Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher welcomed a little girl into the world - we can only assume a little girl with heart-meltingly beautiful eyes - and on Monday Blake Lively announced she was pregnant with Ryan Reynolds’child. Anyone that watched Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place might doubt the credibility of Reynolds as a father...
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
By Harry Bedford, Music Editor Elegance, swing, style and class, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels has it all. The Savoy Theatre, adjacent to the prestigious Savoy Hotel, plays host to the musical that could quite easily become a West End classic. It is a show centred around two con men on the French Riviera, one older and English and the other younger and American. The two men may have very different personalities but they both have the same goal of extracting cash...
The Horrors at The Troxy
By Jonathan Hatchman One of the country's finest alternative outfits to have exploded in to the public eye across the past ten years, The Horrors returned to their East London roots for a relatively intimate show at The Troxy to play a career spanning set and bring their long-awaited UK jaunt to a close. Eloquently gracing the stage of the 2,600 capacity venue, shrouded within a voluminous cloud of smoke that proved even potent enough to trigger the Art Deco...
I want to live in…Forest Gate
This is the proper East End (for the minute) and no it isn’t Forest Hill (ever). Its name is derived from a southern gate of Epping Forest which once stretched continuously down from Epping to the main Roman Road (now Romford Road) linking Camulodunum to Londinium. So bore the estate agent with that, when you are looking at the cheap properties, good schools and planned Crossrail station. Still not interested? Well I have even more (useless facts) An Anglo-Saxon jewelled...
The art of the brick
By Jack Peat, Editor of The London Economic Bricks have long been a focal part of Shoreditch. The factory red of its industrial past, the distinctive yellow residential stock bricks and post-modern grey office blocks paint the canvas of London’s East End which, when you’re mindful of their presence, display a tapestry of colours tantamount to an autumnal walk in the park. And on this particular Sunday morning I had good reason to be mindful of their existence as I...
Don’t be too disillusioned to vote, be too disillusioned not to
By Pieter Cranenbroek ‘Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote,’ William E. Simon once remarked. Replace ‘Washington’ with ‘Westminster’ and the sentence doesn’t lose its significance. The British left can no longer passively wait for Russell Brand’s revolution and watch with dismay how politics is becoming more and more cynical. A positive, politically active countermovement is needed to end the surge of British politics to the right and bring back the momentum to the progressives....