2010’s Christmas book round-up December 1, 2010 BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS CRISIS ECONOMICS BY NOURIEL ROUBINI WITH STEPEHN MIHM Pengiuin, £25 More than just another me-too account of the crisis, Nouriel Roubini – often called Dr Doom for his Cassandra-like prophecies – gives a compelling account of the 2008 meltdown. He provides the lay reader with succinct and clearly written explanations of the [...]
GOING OUT July 28, 2010 WITH the summer just about living up to expectations this year, outside space has become the holy grail when picking a great place to drink in London. It’s certainly tricky to find in Mayfair and the West End so when the sun does come out, here are some of the best alfresco spots to seek [...]
Globetrotting the Hollywood way September 23, 2010 FILM EAT, PRAY, LOVE Cert: 12A Well it’s certainly handsome, but then it’d be difficult for a film primarily set in Italy, India and Bali, and with such luminously attractive stars as Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem, not to be. Based on memoirs of bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert, it stars Roberts as Liz, a New [...]
Globetrotting the Hollywood way September 23, 2010 FILM EAT, PRAY, LOVE Cert: 12A Well it’s certainly handsome, but then it’d be difficult for a film primarily set in Italy, India and Bali, and with such luminously attractive stars as Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem, not to be. Based on memoirs of bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert, it stars Roberts as Liz, a New [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING August 15, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES PATERNOSTER IS PUT UP FOR SALE Paternoster, the specialist pensions business set up by former Prudential executive Mark Wood, has been put up for sale, with its original backers facing the potential loss of more than half their £500m equity investment. The majority of its backers are seeking an exit from a company [...]
Canada’s coolest city is both French and friendly September 5, 2010 THERE’s a good reason why Montreal is known as Canada’s party town. Quebec’s capital – the capital of French Canada – bills itself as the festival capital of the world. Every year there are dozens of festivals celebrating anything and everything. But it’s not just the likes of the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Anarchist Book [...]
Canada’s coolest city is both French and friendly September 5, 2010 THERE’s a good reason why Montreal is known as Canada’s party town. Quebec’s capital – the capital of French Canada – bills itself as the festival capital of the world. Every year there are dozens of festivals celebrating anything and everything. But it’s not just the likes of the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Anarchist Book [...]
Autumn’s the time to see the Costa del Sol’s classier side October 10, 2010 IN THE 1960s, when the package holiday boom took off, the Costa del Sol’s image was forever tarnished. You think of it now as a land of fish and chips and lager, where bull-fighting has given way to the more consensual, but no less cruel, British sport of Holiday Endurance. Men test out how red [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS July 26, 2010 KARAOKE IN KENSAL RISE Karaoke mania continues apace with the August opening of a private room at west London’s quirkiest gastropub, Paradise By Way of Kensal Green. Expect a library of 7,500 classic songs, with 50 of the latest chart hits added each month as well as themed playlists available alongside music-themed food and drink [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS July 26, 2010 KARAOKE IN KENSAL RISE Karaoke mania continues apace with the August opening of a private room at west London’s quirkiest gastropub, Paradise By Way of Kensal Green. Expect a library of 7,500 classic songs, with 50 of the latest chart hits added each month as well as themed playlists available alongside music-themed food and drink [...]