guardian.co.uk Politics:
On Monday we went to the National Theatre to see Alan Bennett's new play, The Habit of Art, about a fictional meeting between WH Auden and Benjamin Britten. It was the performance before press night, so there had been no no (Read More)
The Guardian:
Barbican, LondonShakespeare gets a close-up in Toneelgroep's compression of three plays – Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra – a remarkable six-hour marathon played without an interval. If that sounds like a p (Read More)
The Guardian:
Swedish soprano whose perceptive singing and vivid acting made her a great heroine in operas by Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss and JanacekOne of the most perceptive and admired sopranos of the postwar era, Elisabeth Söderström, (Read More)
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Zac Efron arrived in London earlier this week to promote Me & Orson Welles, and he was busy yesterday and today doing a variety of interviews. He made an appearance last night at the Notting Hill Gate cinema for a question an (Read More)
guardian.co.uk: The Guardian newspaper: Comment & debate:
It was not boredom but anger that tempted me to leave a play in mid-show – but I lacked the courageIn the middle decades of the 20th century, when theatre was testing the limits of taste, an off-stage sound-effect was regular (Read More)
About.com London Travel:
Rhodes W1 Brasserie and Bar, located at the front of the Cumberland Hotel, is a stylish venue to meet for a drink or light meal. It's a large space with a funky feel but it's not 'neon-modern'. There's excellent service and c (Read More)
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How can a firm that never loses money be so totally wrong?Just this Monday, Goldman Sachs helped to gap the markets higher at the open in low-volume futures trading with the following pronouncement: "Goldman Sachs resumes cov (Read More)
The Guardian:
BFI Southbank to exhibit paintings and sketches of 'Freudian ballet' created for the film by Hein HeckrothThe Red Shoes, Powell and Pressburger's 1948 masterpiece, is one of the most visually spectacular movies in British his (Read More)
zlabs:
T-shirts, as you’ll surely agree, play a big part in the design world. Sometimes, we designers don’t get the kinds of projects we want, and so we are left to apply our creativity in some other way, many of us opting to su (Read More)
The Independent - Music RSS Feed:
The End of the World is also ostensibly a live album, recorded "on the eve of Valentine's Day at The End of the World club in London 2012". (Read More)
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Is billionaire investor Silvio Scaglia‘s inclination to keep bankrolling Babelgum running out? The video service is shutting its Dublin HQ and Nice office, paidContent:UK has le (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Adam Bienkov, aka the Tory Troll, has an intriguing story about GLA chief executive Leo Boland:A leaked document sent to Tory Troll reveals that he is pushing for the rights to monitor and review all official scrutiny reports (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
Sir Hugh Orde, president of Acpo, says it is absolutely critical that forces stay free of political influenceChief constables could resign if a Tory government enacted plans to put police forces under the control of directly (Read More)
Ecademy: user blogs:
It's November. Remembrance Day and most recently the Lord Mayor's Show. Rained on like last year, a 3 mile procession squeezed onto a 1.7 mile route celebrates an office created in 1215 where the most famous Mayor was Dick W (Read More)
Mashable!:
Speaking at an event in London earlier today, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone addressed Rupert Murdoch’s plan to wall off his sites and prevent Google from indexing News Corp’s online properties. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he chara (Read More)
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The Beckham boys hit the park in LA yesterday to play a variety of sports while Victoria was away in London. Cruz, Romeo and Brooklyn tackled each other but were careful with (Read More)
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It's been another whirlwind week for Taylor Swift! Check out video of her in London amid the news that her new single with John Mayer is climbing the iTunes charts. Plus, she's cracking down on an Idaho bar who unlawfully use (Read More)
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Last night Sony launched the Playstation Video Store in London, which gave me an opportunity to get to know movie on demand service a little better before it goes live today.The Playstation Video StoreTo access the service yo (Read More)
The Guardian:
It's been labelled derisory and unperformable, Monty Python lampooned it, even its fans admit it's ridiculous. But the neglected 1950s musical Salad Days isn't mere escapismOutside, it's overcast and autumn and engineering wo (Read More)