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We had the immense fortune to be invited to see Anthony Minghella's award-winning production of Puccini's Madam Butterfly. Having absolutely no knowledge of opera, with the slight fear of 'not getting it', we eagerly sat ourselves down in the...
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The Eagle Eye Cherrys amongst you will have spotted an interview we did with a certain Mr James Lavelle earlier this week, discussing the latest incarnation of his Daydreaming with… concept over in Hong Kong. One of the artists who were...
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Debuting his Daydreaming with... concept back in 2010, James Lavelle has been continuing to evolve and progress his art meets music project since, and is surely pleased with himself for having pulled off its first international incarnation in the...
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Dudebox launched last week with a supreme party at Village Underground showcasing some killer vinyl toys. It's the brain-child of Robert Beecham - the man who convinced 20th Century Fox to secure the rights to produce Darth Vadar figurines in the...
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Until 27th May you'll be able to physically set your sights on some of Manifold Edition's latest print offerings. Including exclusive Marc Quinn Sphinx (of Kate Moss) prints in gold and silver leaf, and Damien Hirst's wood-block Spots prints. A...
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If Jason Evans - who has photographed for the likes of i-D, exhibited at the Tate and puts out an image a day on his site The Daily Nice - was to have a strap line it would be: Don’t Give a Fuck. And he’d mean it, but not in a twisted Terry...
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Bloody good fun is snowboarding. Hurtling down red runs when you've barely had enough lessons to see you down a green, little or no control of the brightly painted board you're firmly attached to. It's like a proper extreme-sport rush for people who...
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The international, multi-award winning artist, Gary Taxali, launched his first UK solo show at Steve Lazarides' The Outsiders gallery in London last week. Running until early June, the exhibition includes over forty works of various media and...
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Proclaiming itself as "the biggest Bauhaus exhibition in the UK in over 40 years ", Bauhaus: Art as Life - at the Barbican Art Gallery - is understandably an exhaustive affair; a meticulously encyclopaedic probing into the history and legacy of...
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The world of social media we live in has afforded photography somewhat of a welcome renaissance - the likes of Instagram turning everybody into a photographer, and in-turn heightening the Lomography-craze even further. High quality cameras on...
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Setting up in Helsinki in 2007, Agent Pekka is an award-winning creative consultancy and artist management agency - the only of its kind in Finland. When it came to launching their first continental Europe office, the Dutch capital - famed for its...
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Showing recently at Dalston's The Print House Gallery this series - a collaboration between German-born, London-based photographer Katja Mayer and British art director Peter Chadwick - has post-apocalyptic written all over it. Desolate, unsettling...
Stuff Crush
Weirdness is a notion long entwined with the concept of creativity. Mocked by the strait-laced confined to their boxes of conformism, celebrated by the bold and the brave who pursue the outré as a means of pushing beyond the banal. In Weird...
City Notes
In Montreal’s Little Italy, a new arrival is making waves with a fresh take on Italian dining. Pasta Pooks, which opened in March 2025, is a compact five-seat takeout counter serving pasta and natural wine in a space that marries Old World charm...
City Notes
A once-forgotten 19th-century residence in Savannah’s historic district has been brought spectacularly back to life, reincarnated as The Douglas; a refined 16-room boutique hotel at 14 East Oglethorpe Avenue, where design meets old-world...
Dispatches
In a country where club floors open with Buddhist chants and Ladyboys offer dawn alms in corsets and stilettos, Elizabeth Waterman has found a world of contradictions too vivid to ignore. Over the past three years, and across four extended trips,...
Dispatches
Moving, renovating, or downsizing in a fast-growing city like Dallas can quickly become overwhelming. Between tight housing transitions, unpredictable weather, and the sheer logistics of packing up a home or office, it’s easy to feel buried under...
Dispatches
Drivers race the yellow light constantly. It's become normal behavior. Someone sees the light turn yellow and accelerates to beat it rather than slowing down. Another driver is already committed to going through. They collide in the middle of the...
Dispatches
Once upon a time, hotels were where we went to escape real life, and homes were where we returned to it. Today, that separation is disappearing. The warmth, comfort, and design sophistication that once defined boutique hotels are now finding their...
Dispatches
Moving is one of those life events that sits somewhere between chaos and reinvention. It’s stressful, yes — but it’s also a rare opportunity to start over. To touch every object you own, question its purpose, and decide what kind of person...