FOOD & BOOZE NEWS March 29, 2010 UMAMI DINNER AT NOBU Nobu Mastuhisa, of Nobu, will be flying in to London to host a special dinner at his restaurant in Old Park Lane. The idea is to showcase the “extra” taste umami, best described as tasty savoury, and common in Asian cuisine. After a talk by Mastuhisa, a dinner will take place, [...]
American-style glitz and glam come sailing into Barcelona March 28, 2010 WHATEVER the brand values are that the W Hotel group holds dear, subtlety probably sits low on the list. Take, for instance, the way it classes its rooms. Not for W those fuddy-duddy words like Superior (meaning bog-standard) and Deluxe – instead, W offers you Mega rooms and Fabulous rooms, or if you want a [...]
TRAVEL NOTES March 28, 2010 Get adventurous in the Caribbean You can head to St Lucia in the Caribbean and lie on the beach, or you can do something a little more active. The Cap Maison resort is offering action-packed breaks – for seven nights at the price of six – with activities including kite surfing, horse riding, diving, deep [...]
Bullock is Miss Sentimentality in her apple pie Oscar role March 25, 2010 Film THE BLIND SIDE Cert: 12A IT’S certainly a remarkable story. “Big Mike” Oher, a poor black kid from the Tennessee projects abandoned by his junkie mother, became a major star in American football after being rescued by rich housewife, Leigh Anne Tuohy. She and her millionaire husband (Tim McGraw) adopted him as a teenager, [...]
ON IN LONDON | SIX OF THE BEST March 25, 2010 THEATRE 4:48 Psychosis Scintillating adaptation of the late writer Sarah Kane’s autobiographical prose poem, by Polish company TR Warzawa. At the Barbican. EXHIBITION Kingdom of Life: Sculptures from West Africa The British Museum’s exhibition is a revealing look at the extraordinary sculptures of 12th century Africa. FILM The Scouting Book for Boys This Is England’s [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEK March 25, 2010 FILM NANNY MCPHEE AND THE BIG BANG Thompson returns as the magical nanny. LOURDES Award-winning film about pilgrims heading to the French town, starring Sylvie Testud. PERRIER’S BOUNTY Irish crime caper with Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson and Jim Broadbent. DVD THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON Robert Pattinson makes teenage girls everywhere swoon once more. HARRY [...]
Watches of 2010 March 25, 2010 OVER the past ten days the world’s leading watch-making companies have been displaying their new creations in the Swiss city of Basel, for the BaselWorld Watch and Jewellery show. We’ve gathered together some of the best and most innovative watches that were on show in Basel and at February’s even more exclusive SIHH show in [...]
Beat the blues with a slice of Caribbean sun March 25, 2010 WINTER is finally over, and the sun has been reminding us all of its existence in the past week or so. If you are already thinking ahead to next year and wondering how you will get through another few months of darkness and “snow days”, there’s a solution: buy a home in the Caribbean. Barbados [...]
you can still wear a bow tie in the city March 25, 2010 HOW many men in the City would be comfortable wearing a bow tie to work? Answer: very few, even among those who can actually tie one. It may once have been a cornerstone of the banking look, but now it’s about as common a sight in the Square Mile as a bowler hat. That’s a [...]
Going underground to extend your home March 25, 2010 IT seems we Britons are spending more and more time down under – in our basements, that is. No longer storerooms for junk, these subterranean spaces are increasingly becoming part of our homes, and their uses increasingly varied, with owners busy moulding cinema rooms, saunas, gyms, even golf simulator rooms. And that’s just in your [...]