London Travel Guide
10/10/2008 at 12:30 PM
Tags: Restaurants, New London Restaurants (all tags)
With its rich bangers-and-mash and bacon-and-toast traditions, England was far from the first country to get on board the vegetarian bandwagon. But the Swiss are looking to teach Londeners a thing or two, by exporting their popular vegetarian restaurant, Tibits, which opened a location in the West End last week.
The menu is all-organic, seasonal and natural, but don't look for tofu-wrapped anything: Tibits brags that 90 percent of customers are non-vegetarians.
The Asian- and Indian-tinged salads and sandwiches are tasty enough to lure the meat-eating crowd, and a lengthy list of cocktails helps, as does a selection of organic lagers, specialty coffees and Indian teas.
Related Stories:
· Tibits [Official Site]
· London Travel coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: Tibits]
by BS
10/10/2008 at 9:15 AM
Tags: Celeb Travel, Paris Hilton, Martin Sheen (all tags)
Keep clear! Paris Hilton invades London to promote her reality show. She's out to enslave our young!
Hilton was later overheard in Mayfair while out drinking and carousing at the Cuckoo Club before moving to the Kingly Club in Soho. All of this was, of course, captured by the MTV cameras as a sign of her angst in picking her new right-hand lady in "My New BFF."
Since Hilton still contends via Funny or Die that she's running for president, would that make her new BFF her running mate? Maybe she should go with her onscreen buddy in her new "campaign ad," former "West Wing" star Martin Sheen.
Related Stories:
· Hilton Continues Online Presidential Campaign [AP, via Google]
· Paris Hilton Gets Presidential With Martin Sheen [Funny or Die]
· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: Faded Youth Blog]
by egw
10/09/2008 at 8:45 AM
Tags: Airport Photo Shoots, Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Gwyneth Paltrow, LHR (all tags)
Left to its own devices, the American celebrity (celebritus Americanus) finds its own kind and moves among them in a herd of Blackberrying fingers and venti skinny lattes. Here, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and Gwyneth Paltrow stick to their own kind at London Heathrow.
Last week we knocked Mary-Kate's oversized and understyled luggage, but she was probably hauling around her ideas for the clothing line she shares with her twin, Elizabeth and James.
It didn't make it into London fashion week this year, but maybe next season!
Related Stories:
· Airport Photo Shoot: Seriously? A Duffel? [Jaunted]
· Comic Con 2007: No Costume For Gwyneth Paltrow [Jaunted]
· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: Faded Youth Blog]
by egw
10/08/2008 at 4:30 PM
Tags: Shopping (all tags)
When we're looking for quirky, unique stuff for our teeny apartment, we could drop mega-bucks at Anthropologie, or we could take an amazing trip to London instead and hit up some of the city's best, secret housewares spots.
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by sedona
10/06/2008 at 4:00 PM
Tags: Street Art, Art, Public Art (all tags)
Paris-based photographer and street artist JR thinks bigger than most of his peers. His black-and-white wheat-pasted images are gargantuan in scale, taking over entire faces of buildings and extending to the rooftops.
His work is often subtly socially conscious. JR takes evocative photographs of marginalized people from around the world and blows them up to massive proportions. Towering over you, it's difficult to escape thinking about who these people are, and what their stories are.
One of his latest projects is located in Soho in London. It depicts residents from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, and was installed to coincide with his solo show at the Lazarides Gallery
Related Stories:
· JR Art [Official Site]
· JR Goes Massive in Soho [Supertouch]
· Street Art coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: Supertouch]
by Dan Gould
9/24/2008 at 2:00 PM
Tags: Art, Design, Architecture (all tags)
Open House London is an annual event where private buildings and houses are opened up for the architecturally curious to explore. More than 700 different locations were available to tour this year. Sure, the traditional styles were represented, with names like Victorian, Bedfordshire and Elizabethan. But yawn!
If you wanted to see some really edgy dwelling design, the real action was with the soon-to-be classic: recycled tube carriages.
Village Underground is an office complex made up of four former London Underground Tube carriages that were lifted on top of a giant brick Victorian arch. The cars were gutted and re-fitted with clean looking modern office spaces, then completely covered in graffiti.
It's all part of a social enterprise project, funded by the local government. The offices are now rented out to various members of the creative community as a place to work and socialize.
Related Stories:
· Open House London [Official Site]
· Village Underground [Official Site]
· Open House London: Village Underground [Treehugger]
· London Travel coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: Squirmelia]
by Dan Gould
9/17/2008 at 9:15 AM
Tags: Celeb Travel, UK Travel, Josh Hartnett, Mischa Barton (all tags)
Not everyone gets to go back to the hotel lobby: Less than a month after actor Josh Hartnett was caught having sex on camera at the Soho London, he publicly rebuffed a flirtatious offer while partying at Bungalow 8.
Like his past escapade, this incident was caught on camera, as "OC" starlet Mischa Barton flirted with the West End performer, who was out drinking with buddy Nathan Followill of the band Kings of Leon. Maybe Hartnett never saw "The OC" or maybe he's getting smarter -- but neither of those could be true, right?!
Hopefully the very public scene boosted the Bungalow out of its reported slump: Nightlife maven Amy Sacco was never quite able to replicate the success of her New York club in the London fog, but this "members only" outlet is allegedly abandoned most nights by its prestigious members like Sienna Miller and Ralph Fiennes.
Related Stories:
· Josh Hartnett Caught in the Act at the Soho London [HC]
· Scarlett Johansson and Josh Hartnett Play James Bond [Jaunted]
· Celeb Travel coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: Socialite Life]
by egw
9/15/2008 at 2:03 PM
Tags: Museums, Art, Mark Rothko, Damien Hirst (all tags)
If bidding on movie posters and overpriced contemporary art isn't your thing, London can still entice the trendy glasses crowd. The Tate Modern will host Rothko beginning September 26.
The first major show of his work in more than 20 years, it'll focus more on the artist's later work. His series of paintings for the Seagram Building in New York--a commission Rothko never finished--will be reunited for the first time.
Smart museum goers will book their £12.50 ($22) tickets online to avoid the sort of insane queues that Londoners love. The show continues through February 1, 2009.
Related Stories:
· Rothko [Official Site]
· Datebook: London [NYT]
· Tate Modern Video Interview with the Curator [Official Site]
· Museums coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: Tate Modern]
by pbb
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