My London: Sandro Schiena 19th May 2012 2:22pm | By EditorSandro Schiena (pictured far right) from Turnpike Glow chats about his London.London’s best-kept secret is our bassist/ vocalist Giuseppe’s cured meat selection. It is second to none.When I want to chill out I head to Dulwich Park – it’s a great accompaniment with some [...]
In a similar vein, Israeli soldiers giving a presentation at UC-Davis in March 2012 were relentlessly heckled by Palestinian-activist students. One accused the Israelis of having turned “Palestine into a land of prostitutes, rapists, and child molesters.” He hollered at the soldiers (emphasis added): “How many women have you raped? How many children have you [...]
If you don’t know of Sebastian Horsley (where have you been?), he was a Soho dandy, artist, sex columnist and Comme des Garçons model. He swum with sharks, slept with a thousand prostitutes, was addicted to crack, addicted to smack, invented a shirt at Turnbull & Asser, won a million, lost a million, and, most [...]
The 37-year-old soccer stud joined officials at a handover ceremony Thursday at Greece’s ancient Panathenaic Stadium. The athlete, along with Princess Anne and other British officials, will travel with the flame to a naval base in Cornwall in the southwest of England. E! News reports.From there, the torch goes on a 70-day-long, 8,000-mile journey around [...]
… A CHAT FROM LONDON…She named an East European country. Bells were suddenly ringing. Recent media news has reported hundreds of tramps flocking into London from Romania to set up gangs of beggars and pickpockets during the forthcoming 2012 Olympics. Was she one of them? She puffed on her cigarette stamped on it, then [...]
Annaliese Dayes, a 5′ 7″ 24-year-old from London, England, became the twelfth girl ousted from America’s Next Top Model: British Invasion during Wednesday night’s broadcast on The CW.“I came into this competition being the presenter, the personality, the commercial girl. And the journey has just been extremely [fabulous]. I needed to hear that Kelly had [...]
Ever wish you could just leave it all behind? Forget the daily grind, the gas bills and month after month of British weather. Why not live the good life in some far flung country, a place where the sun never sets and a pint costs less than a Mars Bar? We’ve all thought about it. [...]
… Hanging around in bars’: inside London’s Olympic lobbying push…When the IOC team visited London and the bid team could finally lobby openly, it went all-out, says Gross, including monitoring the cavalcade’s journey through London on CCTV and changing traffic lights to green as the committee members’ vehicles approached – a precursor, perhaps, to the [...]
Judith R. Walkowitz is the author of Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London (Yale University Press, $40)…These backstage scenes operated at different registers. Bedtime scenes blend two genres of wartime photographs, the shelter scene and the pin up. The cover of the racy periodical, London Life, features Windmill girls asleep in their “civilian dugout.” Pressed [...]
Comment: Romanian beggars in London’s Park Lane – another chance for UK press to bash Romania…Local newspaper the London Evening Standard originally broke the story. It appears that a group of people have been sleeping rough in the area and begging. Demands have been made to London mayor Boris Johnson and foreign secretary William Hague [...]