AUTUMN is one of the four seasons most commonly associated with romance because of the vision of lovers walking holding hands through leaves shed by trees in parks and woodlands. This is despite the drop in temperature and if anything the colder weather makes hugs and cuddly behavior even more necessary. Spring would probably claim first […]
JUDGING by the physics-themed theatre productions cropping up in autumn, it’s going to be a pretty cerebral November in both the theatre Fringe and the West End. And even if you don’t know your Newton’s from your Einsteins, it will hopefully prove an entertaining challenge to get your head round quantum physics on the London […]
While you’re out trick or treating look out for the October issue of What’s Hot London magazine packed with lots of themed events and club nights for your last minute plans on the last evening of the month. Our writers Demon Daz Fabulously Fetish & Macabre Halloween and Lynn Carratt Things to do This Halloween […]
KEATS HOUSE held a special Halloween celebration of Keats and Gothic literature with a complimentary Gothic cocktail on entry for those who braved the host’s tales of death, romance and the supernatural. The evening began with a historian giving a short lecture on the earliest Gothic literature, notable among them a 1764 novel called The […]
FORGET THE 2017 grime hype for a minute and go all the way back to 2001 when a new sound was born on the mean streets of East London. It was the first marked departure from late 90s UK rap, which copied the accent and beats of the hugely successful American hip-hop that dominated the […]
The Stockwell Playhouse in South West London has announced a Five Minute Theatre Festival where brevity is the only rule. They are seeking forty plays of five minutes or under for this event in November with only ten making it to the Grand Final where an overall winner will be selected. If you think five […]
With sales up 12% this year and gin tax profits higher than beer for the first time since the Victorian age, no one can put a finger on what’s responsible for this London gin craze that has emerged in recent years. James Bond’s resurgence under Daniel Craig? We all know 007 fancied the odd sophisticated […]
Author George Saunders Wins the Man Booker Prize 2017 for Lincoln in the Bardo Latest figures show that the UK publishes more books per capita than any other country. With that much product on offer, you’ll probably find that while browsing in WHSmiths it’s inevitably the short description on the back cover which sells new […]
When the Fauve artists emerged in 1905, led by Matisse himself and creative ally Andre Derain, their paintings would have been pretty OTT by standards of the day to be noted for their vivid, jarring hues. Especially when you consider that around the same period the Expressionist work of Kandinsky and Kirchner were not exactly […]
M Restaurant Wins ‘Most Stylish London Restaurant’ in Blue Badge Awards & ‘Best London Steak Restaurant’ in Lux Global Awards Oct 2017 Described on Bookatable as a ‘James Bond-style restaurant’, one can only guess they are referring to its air of sophistication and cool because there’s not any Bond memorabilia in sight and the waitresses […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
