Courchevel: Where stylish Alpine skiing meets incredible food
At age twenty-three, I spent a year living in Whistler, the jewel in North America’s skiing crown. I lived on a diet consisting primarily of reduced-price blueberry muffins, staff-subsidised burger meals and box-mixture pancakes. As a food snob, this was a difficult...
Joan as Police Woman: UK Tour through November
Joan As Police Woman is one of those ballsy-artsy artists we celebrate at Flux, and she's celebrating ten years since her debut album with a new album and a world tour with fellow Brooklynite, Benjamin Lazar Davis. Originally a classical violinist, Joan Wasser evolved...
Noose and Monkey tailoring with a twist in the Age of Now
Noose and Monkey tailoring with a twist in the Age of Now - words Alan Woods Noose & Monkey are part of a new breed of menswear brands that are creating a stir up and down the country. The brand really mix up old world and new, tailoring and street style. Noose...
Uniting the senses? Chapter Three, the Waldorf Project
Words: Chris Zacharia Is it possible to combine the senses? From painting to pottery, most art forms rely on only one or two senses to be understood. The Waldorf Project, a large-scale immersive art experiment, is attempting to go further. For the first time, art can...
A Collective Roar from Argentina at Barullo
Barullo - which means the sound of the crowd or a collective uproar that grabs your attention - brings Argentina to London this autumn. From October 25th to 28th 2016, Wines of Argentina will be bringing the cutting edge culture of Argentina to Hoxton’s JJ Studios...
When France goes Brit-mad: Dinard Film Festival
For one week in September, the typically French seaside town of Dinard becomes curiously British. Stroll down the charming boulevard alongside the beach and you’ll spot a black cab. Walk a little further and a red telephone box pops up. A life-size replica of...
Escape Istanbul’s crowds on a vintage Bosphorus ferry
Escape Istanbul's crowds on a vintage Bosphorus ferry - words Neil Geraghty When you’ve been stuck in a traffic jam for two and a half hours, there is only a certain number of motorway verge bedding plant displays you can endure. I’m sitting on the airport shuttle bus...
Adam Curtis film on Trump, Putin, Reality TV and HyperNormalisation
There are a lot of strange things happening in the world right now. Some fantastical and some downright scary. We had Brexit of course and the rise of quasi fascist wannabes such as Putin and now Donald Trump. We also seem to have a frightening inability to do...
Sacrifice & Bliss – video for the brain storming single Hit Me
I do like a bit of lippy on a frontman. All the best men (and women) who dare to put themselves on the line always love to experiment with their image. Well meet Roger Hany the singer (and bassist) who fronts Sacrifice & Bliss. We don’t want our music stars to...
Donna Margherita – a proper neighbourhood restaurant
Words: Chris Zacharia There are many important things to look for when moving to a new neighbourhood. A good local restaurant is one of them. Having grown up in Maidstone in Kent, a culinary wasteland dominated by Frankie & Benny’s, Zizzi’s and Nando’s, I’ll never...
What are Londoner’s Favourite Views in the World?
words Alan Woods It’s no secret that a great view can really make a difference to the cost of your home. But, if you’re a homeowner and you’re wanting a better view from your property, you’ll have to pay a premium (plus all the fees associated with moving)....
BAFTA Screenwriters Lecture Series 2016 – Interview with screenwriter Jeremy Brock
words Paul Risker “I sort of feel that it is a battle that has to go on being fought” – Screenwriter Jeremy Brock on the BAFTA Screenwriters Lecture Series 2016. In the glorious artistic medium known as cinema, the writer has become subjugated to the director as...
Antwerp guide – Belgium’s second city, takes the spotlight
Antwerp guide - Belgium's second city, takes the spotlight - words Lawrence Hunt The spotlight’s been hot on Brussels lately. But if you’re sick of hearing about our continental problems, go a little further and spend a long weekend in Antwerp, Flanders’ thriving,...
Buttocks Out – When bottoms in art take centre stage
words Frederick Harris For those who like bottoms in art, and I make a somewhat rash assumption that this category includes every sensible and well-adjusted individual, this Monday just gone was a day of supreme excitement. The shortlist for the Turner Prize was...
Meet Mussel Men, Dalston’s swashbuckling seafood restaurant
Words: Lawrence Hunt The story of Mussel Men’s founder starts like any good seafaring shanty-tale. Robin Dunlop spent his youth clambering up and down the Scottish coastal crags of his uncle's oyster and mussel farms, overcoming his gag reflex and coming to love the...