A section of Indians who have come to the United Kingdom on student visas say they are facing financial ruin as they cannot find work. Many have been getting free meals at a Sikh gurdwara in west London, reports the BBC.Lunchtime at Sri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara in Southall. An army of volunteers are preparing [...]
Patti LuPone Gypsy Back on London Track???Date: 28 January 2010Gypsy tells the story of the American burlesque stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. Her ambitious stage mother, Mama Rose (LuPone), is determined that her two daughters will become stars and so she sets out to find fame and fortune for them. The 1959 Broadway musical has [...]
The Space Hijackers had driven an armoured personnel carrier to the G20 protest in London and parked it outside the Royal Bank of Scotland.They announced they would help protect the building from “bad” demonstrators.But police declined their offer and instead impounded the vehicle.When officers discovered the activists were wearing oversized police baby-gro’s and riot helmets, [...]
The sole preserve of City lawyers and other professionals used to be clubs such as the Royal Automobile Club (RAC), Whites and The Athenaeum, found along St James’ Street in central London. But then a string of young upstarts came along, eschewing the image of the traditional gentleman’s club and appealing to the younger generations [...]
The Hotel Carter must have cleaned up its act. Although the Midtown cesspool came in at No. 1 on TripAdvisor’s list of the “dirtiest hotels in America” last year—the third time it had received the award in the past four years—it’s nowhere to be found on the travel site’s 2010 list. Congrats, though, to the [...]
Exhibition: Chris Ofili, Tate Britain, London, January 27 – May 16 2010“It does what it says,” explains Curator Judith Nesbitt, gazing at Painting With S*** On It, the opening to Chris Ofili’s exhibition at Tate Britain.“The s*** is just rammed onto the canvas, as if it’s just a great splat. He brought dung back from [...]
How to spend that banker’s bonus this year? Perhaps a visit to Mother Goose’s brothel or picking up a trophy wife, some popular icon who is hideously ugly and has a taste for luxuries? It really is not a new story at all, as Hogarth, Stravinsky and Auden between them remind us.…Dating from early 2007, [...]
In Lepage’s witty update the world of television and Hollywood represent those sentiments of betrayal, greed and debauchery which were shown in Hogarth’s painting two centuries earlier. The video film images, including Anne’s car journey, are visually pleasing and also appropriate because of the pictorial source of the libretto. The Hollywood [...]
Gianfranco Zola: Hammers have aged meGianfranco Zola launches West Ham’s brave new world tonight admitting his 16 months in charge have aged him five years.Under new ownership, the Hammers welcome back England striker Carlton Cole from a two-month lay-off with knee trouble for the relegation battle at Portsmouth.West Ham’s new paymasters David Sullivan and David [...]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Michael Bolcerek, Senior Vice President of Business Development for Aristotle’s Integrity division, will be a featured speaker at the Combating Cybercrime Conference, co-located with the International Gaming Expo (IGE) in London on January 26, 2010.…Aristotle is a leading non-partisan provider of political technology and data. Their Integrity division markets global [...]