1 World Trade Center, West St between Liberty and Vesey Sts, 107th floor (212-524-7000) Subway: C, E to World Trade Center; N, R to Cortlandt St. Hours vary with event. This restaurant and bar on top of the World Trade Center is the kind of place you’d take your cousins from Indiana, but in the [...]
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The Greatest Bar on Earth
July 21, 2010Costa Smeralda – Sardegna
July 20, 2010Sex and the Single
July 19, 2010‘Sex and the Single’, a humorous monologue about sex by Berlin-based, Birmingham-born cabaret performer Jon Flynn, is about desperation, one-night stands, wanting sex but being unable to find any, waking up in the morning and wishing you hadn’t and other sex-related issues. Incorporating music by Tom Waits, Diana Ross and Nat King Cole, ‘Sex and [...]
Boston Music Awards/NEMO
July 18, 2010The fifth annual NEMO Music conference and Showcase kicks off once again with the Boston Music Awards presentation and concert at the Orpheum Theatre. The conference features panel discussions and workshops on April 20 and 21 at Boston’s World Trade Center and performances by more than 200 bands at 20 venues throughout the city. The [...]
Body Voices No 6
July 16, 2010Body Voices, an annual three-week festival of cutting edge, contemporary dance brings together dozens of ensembles from across Europe and the United States. This year’s event which take place at an avant-garde arts centre in East Berlin, features groups from the Netherlands, Germany and Britain. Among the artists taking centre stage this month (13-15 April) [...]
Cosmic Comedy Club
July 14, 2010177 Fulham Palace Road, W6 (020 7381 2006) Hammersmith tube. Performances 9pm Tue, Thur; 8.30pm Fri, Sat. Admission Tue free; Thur ?5; Fri ?10; Sat ?12. Credit MC, V. Website: http://www.cosmiccomedy.demon.co.uk A lovely,long-established, purpose-built club, offering a good mix of comedystyles. Tuesday nights are devoted to untried acts, with better-knownfaces appearing on other nights. Food [...]
La Fornarina
July 9, 2010La Fornarina’ is one of Raphael’s last and most mysterious works. It is the portrait of a naked young woman who, according to tradition, was the great painter’s lover shortly before his premature death. Now expertly restored, the painting has been given an exhibition all to itself, providing a fascinating insight into Raphael’s methods of [...]
The colors of Scotland
June 30, 2010Bautzen, Germany
June 23, 2010London Coliseum
June 14, 2010St Martin’s Lane, WC2 (box office 020 7632 8300/ fax credit card bookings 020 7379 1264/minicom 020 7836 7666) Leicester Square tube or Charing Cross tube/rail. Box office 24 hours daily. Tickets ?2.50-?55; day tickets on sale to personal callers after 10am Mon-Sat and over the phone from 2.30pm Mon-Sat. Credit AmEx, DC, MC, ?TC, [...]
