The second instalment of the new breaks, beats and drum & bass features another unfeasibly large line-up. Deep breath: The E-Z Rollers, DJ Zinc, MC Jakes, Andy Profile, TNT residents Finnie & Tez in one arch, Freestyle Fellowship (featuring Aceyalone & Peace, Dee J a’ la Fu) plus the Soulcialists and Riz. At this rate, [...]
Entries from March 2010
March 28, 2010
Try This On
With the excitement befitting a new spring wardrobe, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts presents ‘Try This On’, five simultaneous shows that address the ways in which artists investigate social behaviour and self-presentation. In other words, it’s an exhibition about clothes and make-up. The programme is highlighted by works and installations by Pierre et Gilles, [...]
March 25, 2010
Saturdays @ the Odeon
The Odeon goes upmarket with an extra special club night offering for Saturdays. Taking advantage of the overspill from the nearby POD complex, the Odeon now lays on four areas to get you dancing, chill you out, assault your ear drums and provide that vital somewhere to get a drink. The DJs change every week [...]
March 21, 2010
Clarke House Holiday Tours
In the 1850s Christmas customs were beginning to evolve throughout the nation, including appearances by Santa Claus. Houses were decorated with strings of cranberries, clove-studded oranges scented the air and gold-painted walnuts adorned tables and mantelpieces. The Clarke House, decorated for the holidays 1850s-style, offers special tours. Included are holiday trips to the neighbouring Glessner [...]
March 17, 2010
Rayo Vallecano vs Racing de Santander
Little ‘Rayito’ continue their unprecedented hob-nobbing with mightier clubs as the season progresses. A shaky spell on the October-November cusp seems to have been resolved and the red-stripe beer-can lookalikes have gone from strength to strength, continuing as potential UEFA candidates. Visitors Racing are a struggling but nevertheless useful outfit always likely to cause an [...]
March 12, 2010
Kandinsky
This exhibition documents the work of Wassily Kandinsky between 1896 and 1921. It demonstrates the influences of two cities on his career – Munich, where Kandinsky became one of the leading figures of the Blaue Reiter group, and Moscow, where he continued along the path towards total abstraction and total colour. Over 100 paintings, watercolours [...]
March 7, 2010
Puccelini
A major Italian bistro contender has popped up in the otherwise bleak semi-industrial Prague district of Holesovice. Puccelini, adorned throughout with music scores and lamps hidden inside trumpets, serves up fine pizzas from a traditional wood-fired brick oven. But its starters, such as baked, stuffed aborigines and mozzarella potato thyme soup are just as impressive. [...]
March 3, 2010
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Bruce Lee meets Jane Austen in Ang ‘Sense And Sensibility’ Lee’s astonishingly beautiful martial arts romance – it’s still the film of the year.
