Cosmicly Cheap Holidays

The Greatest Bar on Earth

pakgliding — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:00:39 +0000

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 last few years it has cleverly courted New York’s trendies by adding loungecore, Latin and funk DJs to its lineup of middle-age crooners and cover bands. Wednesday night’s Mondo 107 is the most popular night, with a mix of vintage exotica and newer stuff in that vein (Pizzicato Five, Dimitri from Paris, etc.). While it’s probably peaked as a hot spot, it’s still fun, especially for the view on a clear night.

Costa Smeralda – Sardegna

pakgliding — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:00:26 +0000

Sex and the Single

pakgliding — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:00:35 +0000

‘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 the Single’ is showing at a small venue in Western district of Kreuzberg. In English and German.

Boston Music Awards/NEMO

pakgliding — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 02:00:02 +0000

The 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 Music Awards show will feature presentations for everything from major label Act of the Year to best indie label Rock Band. Nominees include Godsmack, Powerman 5000, American Hi-Fi and LFO.

Body Voices No 6

pakgliding — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:01:24 +0000

Body 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) is Britain’s Akram Khan whose three choreographies ‘Fix’, ‘Loose in Flight’ and ‘Rush’ fuse elements of Western modern dance with classical south east Asian Khatak dancing and film.

Cosmic Comedy Club

pakgliding — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:00:30 +0000

177 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 comedy
styles. Tuesday nights are devoted to untried acts, with better-known
faces appearing on other nights. Food is available and there’s a disco
until 2am on Fridays and Saturdays.

La Fornarina

pakgliding — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:01:59 +0000

La 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 composition. Precise documentation also reveals that, as well as being something of a breakthrough intimate portrait, the painting can also be interpreted as a classical allegory.

The colors of Scotland

pakgliding — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:01:11 +0000

Bautzen, Germany

pakgliding — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:01:00 +0000

London Coliseum

pakgliding — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:00:55 +0000

St 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, V.

Website: http://www.eno.org

The grandly named and grandly proportioned Coliseum is the home of the English National Opera ,
the matey cousin to the noticeably more stuffy Royal Opera. ENO, which
hands over the Coliseum to ballet companies during the Christmas and
summer seasons, likes to think of itself as an approachable, slightly
populist company. To a large extent it’s entitled to: in the past,
ticket prices have tended to be considerably lower than the ROH’s,
while the productions could be considered more challenging than those
at Covent Garden (although, now the new ROH has been unveiled, this
distinction may be lost), and all the works are sung in English. In
recent years, ENO has knocked out some fine productions in a return to
the form that made it so popular in the 1980s. As part of the London String of Pearls Millennium Festival ,
ENO is celebrating 400 years of opera with an ambitious run of ten
consecutive new productions (Sept-Dec 2000), starting with Monteverdi’s
The Coronation of Poppea and concluding with Verdi’s Requiem .