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Marylebone
Posted in: Books, Food & Dining, Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Shows & Exhibitions

What’s Hot Marylebone? From Sherlock Holmes’ Baker Street to boujee French cuisine, we track the cultural and foodie delights of Marylebone. We discovered a streetful of antique shops as well as high-end boutiques, indie bookshops and backstreet art galleries. But which are our chosen hotspots? So, What’s Hot Marylebone?   Madame Tussauds It doesn’t take […]

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Frieze Sculpture, Frieze Art Fair, Regents Park
Frieze Sculpture & Art Fair
Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions

Frieze Week: Man in underpants found wandering around Regents Park!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       If you are visiting Regents Park to catch Frieze Sculpture 2023, it’s likely you’ll also catch sight of a half-naked man wandering around the sculpture site in a dazed state. Indeed, last week from afar it looked as if park security had finally cornered […]

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  • The Queen of 9 days - Lady Jane Grey
    July 19th: The Nine Days Queen & The Tower of London
    Posted in: Highlights, People, Places

    So what does the average 15 year old girl get up to? It’s the age at which they have their first kiss with 77% saying they remember it as clear as the day it happened. Also according to a Daily Mail survey parents claim they are more concerned with boyfriends and make-up than school work. […]

  • Fabulous Fashionistas at Rooftop Gardens
    Fabulous Fashionistas at Rooftop Gardens
    Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights, People, Photos

    Over the weekend, the ‘Fabulous Fashionistas’ held a suitably fab Summer Cocktail Party at Roof Top Gardens, Kensington for its fashion, film and TV networking soiree. This included a model catwalk casting right there in the club. It’s the place to be seen and make industry contacts so keep a look out for their glamorous […]

  • Dum Dum Doughnut Bar, Shoreditch
    A Doughnut Bar
    Posted in: Bars & Clubs, Food & Dining, Highlights, Photos, Places

    Looking for a cool hang out this summer but had your fill of clubs and booze? Got a sweet tooth? Well your first destination should be cool n’ trendy Shoreditch where you will be a little spoilt for choice for ‘hang-out’ credibility. Although Dum Dum Doughnuts at the ever-so-hip Box Park fits the bill. It’s […]

  • British Fashion Volume II at the Dorsett Hotel
    British Fashion Volume II
    Posted in: Highlights, Photos, Shows & Exhibitions

    The British Fashion Volume II at the Dorsett Hotel, Holland Park brought together the cream of rising design talent wowing the audience and photographers with their latest creations. The temperatures sure rose over the weekend.

  • Monologues for BAME actors- Book Launch
    Monologues for BAME Actors : Book Launch
    Posted in: Books, Highlights

    BAME stage actors seeking quality audition material will find Audition Speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern Actors an entertaining read and comes recommended for any aspiring thespian set on a career in theatre. The book, which includes a foreword by actor and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah, was published on June 30th and launched at Theatre […]

  • The Horse Hospital
    A Horsey Art Centre
    Posted in: Highlights, Places

    A weird name for a London arts venue and a hub for even weirder creative ideas – the type that are more likely to be rejected by traditional exhibition spaces – but the Horse Hospital has a ‘stable’ enough footing amongst the capital’s artistic community (if you forgive the pun). This Bloomsbury venue holds book […]

  • London Film Studios Academy
    London Film Studios Launch
    Posted in: Highlights, Places

    London Film Studios Academy CEO Shantelle Rochester-Henry (centre of photo) headed the organisation’s launch at Stratford Circus Arts Centre on Thursday 30th June. Also in attendance was Nick Moran, star of Guy Ritchie’s East End gangster movie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (right of photo). With Moran also promoting his latest movie London Heist, the […]

  • Tower Bridge London
    Last Day of June: Tower Bridge Anniversary
    Posted in: Highlights, Photos, Places

    The Prince of Wales officially opened Tower Bridge on June 30th 1864, 122 years ago on this very date. This photo series by Eddie Saint-Jean commemorates the event where the bridge was raised to allow the first ships through its bascules and along the Thames.  

  • All Black Cast Hamlet
    The First All-Black Hamlet
    Posted in: Drama & Theatre, Highlights

    In a historic first, Stratford Centre and Watford Palace Theatre have co-produced the only Hamlet featuring an all-black cast. Directed by Jeffrey Kisson and adapted by playwright Mark Norfolk the Kingdom of Denmark in the original play is now a black empire in modern England. Stratford Circus is one of the founding partners of Black […]