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LLG Arts: Flawless and English National Ballet on Tour 2012

May 11, 2012 Culture

I am practically FIZZING with excitement about this: a collaboration between World Dance Champions Flawless and ENB (the UK’s national ballet company), fusing streetdance, acrobatics and ballet promises to be just the most amazing thing. I don’t normally write about events in advance — not being a news website an ‘all. But when the ENB emailed to […]

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English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer 2012 Competition

March 6, 2012 Culture

Some evenings are just perfect. Yesterday I zipped my sister to Queen Elizabeth II Hall for the final of the English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer Competition, to watch six astonishing young dancers from the company perform their hearts out on stage in front of 900 people, including the jury (amongst whom were Wayne Eagling, the […]

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Theatre Review: Zach Braff’s All New People

March 4, 2012 Culture

Zach Braff, easy on the eye American star of mildly amusing US television sitcom pens play, and takes starring role in said play’s West End run. Neither fact would have had me sprinting to the opening night on Tuesday in London under normal circumstances. Especially as Braff didn’t appear in the play’s run off Broadway […]

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LLG Culture: Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

February 4, 2012 Culture

Sure, I’m a museum junkie. Not in London, of course. In common with most people, I beeline to galleries & exhibitions when abroad, but somehow fail miserably to get off my gnocchi-filled ass to do the same in my own city.

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LLG Travels: Yves Saint Laurent’s Jardin de Majorelle, Marrakech

January 1, 2012 Art & Artists

Yves Saint Laurent so loved the garden he restored with Pierre Berge here in Marrakech that he requested that his ashed be scattered there when he died. Walking through the Jardin de Majorelle today, with its intense flashes of Yves Klein blue, otherworldly cacti, succulents and bamboo groves, and its air of secret repose, it […]

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Remembrance Day: 11th day of the 11th month.

November 11, 2011 Culture

It’s Remembrance Day in the United Kingdom, and Veteran’s Day here in America, formerly known as Armistice Day in both, and I fell silent at 11am to remember those who fought, fell and survived fighting for freedom around the world. I thought it might be timely to re-run this post I put up earlier in […]

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Guest blog: H. Huntsman & Sons: From French Silk to British Serge by Katie Rose

October 6, 2011 Culture

I’m in New Jersey, leading the life of an ‘international dogsitter’, as Lauren Laverne put it yesterday. And that means I missed Savile Row tailors H.Huntsman & Sons cocktail in London last night that they hosted around Dr. David Starkey’s talk on the invention of modern men’s dress in Regency London. Dr Starkey wrote some […]

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Going Out: Hemstock Festival, the Festival on the Farm in Dorset

September 13, 2011 Culture

It’s nearly the end of this summer’s festival season. But there is one left…if you aren’t at London Fashion Week over the weekend, then I suggest you head on down to Dorset for Hemstock, a one day “festival on the farm” on Saturday the 17th Sept, at West Chelborough, near Dorchester, in Dorset. In particular because […]

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Guest Blog: James Erskine, director of From the Ashes

May 5, 2011 Culture

My friend James Erskine is taking over the blog today to talk about his incredible documentary which is being shown on one night only in cinemas around Britain. It’s an amazing story, and a film that appeals across the board, whether you are interested in sport, tales of heroism or innovative documentary — you definitely […]

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Guest Blog: Moonlight by Harold Pinter at Donmar Warehouse by Helena Halme

April 25, 2011 Culture

The excellent writer of one of my recommended Top 10 Blogs to Follow in 2010, Helena Halme, has decided to hive off her thought-provoking theatre reviews into a new blog, Strindberg’s Daughter, where she brings her Nordic candour to the London theatre world. This is her first guest post for LLG: When a theatre production […]

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