Circle Pizza Hoxton – Very different to your local corner joint
words Peter Bond It’s a pizza joint, right! There’s a pizza joint on every corner in London. If you’re unlucky, a kid gets a pizza out of the fridge and ovens it to death. If you’re lucky, the cook pulls some dough around, covers it with tomato and cheese and puts a...
Ping Pong Dim Sum – the dumplings take centre stage
words K Petrie and J MacGregor Ping Pong Dim Sum, perhaps a touch inaptly named - as where the Ping Pong was we never found out, stands proudly directly on the main thoroughfare heading up to Waterloo Bridge. And peering through the glass from the outside, it hums...
Backyard Cinema – Film, food and booze under the stars
words Will Squires London has a deep, tender relationship with cinema. From the stalwart form of the BFI on Southbank to the open-air rooftops of the Bussey Building in Peckham, there is a nearly limitless selection of venues to go and watch the silver screen,...
The Age of CGI – but does the technology enhance the film experience?
Tom Cruise has been making headlines for going back to basics and doing a spectacular stunt hanging off the side of an Airbus A400 without the aid of CGI. Paramount have pushed this fact and editors and columnists around the world have run with it. It’s all been great...
Tenue de Nîmes: Pablo for denim aficionados only
Tenue de Nîmes release ‘Pablo’, their new jeans made from Japanese 'Memphis blue' fabric. Paired with manufacture in Italy, the unquestionable authority in denim production, expect a product for the denim aficionado only. Tenue de Nîmes, the Amsterdam based and award...
Tramlines 2015: Notes from a Broken Mind
report by Alex Murray Sheffield: a city of steel and fields, grey concrete tempered with green parks, topiaried townies balanced out by floppy-haired hippies and hipsters. Tramlines too treads the line between extremes, a speed date between styles and eras. As a...
MEATliquor SINgapore – Dark, dirty, deep-fried and delicious…
MEATliquor SINgapore review by Adam Boatman MEATliquor. From meat van to meatopia. It has toured the UK serving chilli dogs, dirty burgers and knockout pickle backs, satiating hunger as it goes. But down in the dark, devilish basement where the dead hippies are piled...
A Life less Ordinary – Christopher Ritchie on his satirical horror novel: The Ordinary
As his second novel, The ordinary, hits the shelves, Christopher Ritchie has marked himself out as a rising star in fiction. We talk to the up and coming author about his work and the illness he battles every day. With a million books published every year, the...
Why some movie remakes work while others bomb
words Bojana Duric Whenever a remake gets announced, I either get really excited and get nostalgic when remembering the original, or a weariness storms over asking why do we need to resurrect a film that’s bound to be ruined with an unoriginal story plot or actors...
No.11 Pimlico Road – London’s sleepy enclave awakes….
I love Pimlico. Humdrum, deeply uncool Pimlico. Where Daily Telegraph online serials are set, where ‘father of lawn tennis’ Major Walter Clopton Wingfield lived, where no Londoner ever goes anymore. It’s the straight-to-DVD sequel to Bloomsbury. I love it because it’s...
The Jam Tree, Clapham – Home from home?
The Jam Tree revew by David Allen Sometimes it’s hard to put your finger on what makes a place homely; is it the familiarity, the comfort, the feeling of being welcome, or just the fact that it’s yours? As a boy, whenever I visited my Nan’s it was without a doubt...
The Look of Silence film review – How to survive a genocide
The Look of Silence film review by Yunhan Fang The Indonesian anti-communist genocide of 1965-1966, which took the lives of more than 50,000 people, is rarely talked about in either Indonesia or the West. In his 2012 documentary The Act of Killing, director Joshua...
Barbed Space Pop – Too Many People by Princess Chelsea
Wow this is infectious stuff. Sweet melodies bubbling over killer keyboard hooks from the delightful Auckland based indie songstress Princess Chelsea. It all sounds so sugary cute but then the little barbs in her words start to strike like tiny pieces of ice on a hot...
Fu Manchu Clapham – New dim sum & cocktail parlour with disco leanings
Fu Manchu, the murderous master criminal from Sax Rohmer’s series of novels; that moustachioed, malevolent genius that traversed the globe causing trouble. Hot on his heels was the colonial police commissioner, the jingoistic Denis Nayland Smith and his faithful...
Interview with Anne Valerie Hash – Creative Director of Comptoir Des Cotonniers
By Charly Suggett After an extensive chat about face painting, artistic make up and our weaknesses that are social media I glanced down at my notebook and was reminded that I was here for a reason and that was to have a chat with the newly appointed Creative Director...