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Another
selection of events for the weekend. If you have any
suggestions for the weekends to come, please do drop
us a line. Click here for a more print-friendly
version.
This weekend's guide is brought to you by Liverpool
- European Capital of Culture 2008. This Thursday 27 September
sees the launch of the Capital of Culture programme for 2008.
With over 350 events, the majority of which are free, there
truly is something for everyone.
We are offering people the chance to register for tickets at
liverpool08.com.
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This
weekend's picks: |
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Get
In The Ring, Fidgit, Polyglot
Composers |
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Insomniacs
Ball, Joakim & The Eurotastics,
Make It Stop! |
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Africa
Mine: Music and Movement, Afternoon
Tea with Holly and Sadie, It
Came From The Earth |
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Pop
Art Is, 15th Raindance Film
Festival, Ritual Abuse |
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Harvest
Fair, The Big Draw |
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Divo,
Cuckoo Club |
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Make
It Stop!
Sick of all the mainstream, Hoxton Square, may-as-well-be-the-West-End,
same-old same-old? But then, on the flipside, maybe
you don't fancy traipsing out to the depths of
Dalston to freeze at the latest car-park nu-rave. Maybe
you just fancy a cracking night of fine, pretention-free
electro, with a good-looking crowd, a cold beer, and
maybe some half-sanitary toilets for a change. That's
all. Enter Make It Stop!, out to remind East London
what it used to be about: fun. Sans bullshit. |
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Pop
Art Is
When Richard Hamilton defined the Pop Art movement and
manifesto back in the '50s, its detractors undoubtedly
considered it a fad, presuming it a passing rebellion
of the impulsive youth, doomed to tire and disappear.
Unfortunately for them, Hamilton's proclamation
has survived the last half century and, as the Gagosian
is keen to emphasise, Pop Art is still going strong.
With a major exhibition of work form both the original
set of Hamilton's peers, including Lichtenstein,
Warhol and Oldenburg, and the movement's more
recent practitioners like Hirst and Koons, its relevance
in our media-rich, postmodern world is certainly reaffirmed.
In fact, amidst the array of bright and quirky pieces
on display, one cannot escape the feeling that Pop Art
is more than just surviving: it still seems young, powerful
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Tues-Sat 10am-6pm
Until
November 10 |
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Gagosian
Gallery, 6-24 Britannia Street, WC1X 9JD |
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Free |
Info: |
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www.gagosian.com |
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15th
Raindance Film Festival
Now a massive 15 years old, the Raindance Film Festival
is an institution with that most honourable of intentions
of encouraging and supporting independent film, whether
from within the UK or around the world. The Festival
screens variously at the Cineworlds on Haymarket and
Shaftesbury Avenue and the Rex Cinema on Rupert Street,
offering the chance to catch some of the finest, freshest
and most unique movies around, from features to documentaries
and shorts, as well as a number of classes and workshops
pertaining to the film industry. The winners of Raindance's
11 awards will be announced at the closing gala on the
7th of October, but for many of us the awards are less
important than the sheer number of brilliant indie films
on offer over the next week. Highlights this year include
the Japanese feature The Amazing Lives of the Fast Food
Grifters, the UK films Summer Scars and The Killing
of John Lennon, and the unsettling American documentary
Crazy Love.
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Until
October 7 |
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See
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£9.20-125
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www.raindance.co.uk |
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Ritual Abuse
Context aside, 'Ritual Abuse at The Boys Hall'
has an almost delightfully suspect ring to it. But as
a consideration of ritual in contemporary art practice,
exhibiting in a former Boy Scouts hall is a sly move
that might just help persuade its potential audience
up to Dalston and into the space. Showing work from
21 graduates and students from Goldsmiths, the RCA,
Central St. Martins and the RA, the hall is virtually
overflowing with the full gamut of visual media, exploring
the relevance and meaning of such monolithic concepts
as myth, symbolism, science, and art. No small issues
here then. And, whilst there are tendencies towards
the kitsch and the gothic amongst the works, given the
spiritual overtones of the show's themes it's
a proclivity that only helps, injecting both humour
and morbidity, and sometimes a blend of the two, into
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Opening
6-8pm Friday. Thurs-Sun 12-5pm
Until October 6 |
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The
Boys Hall, 68 Boleyn Road, N16 8JP |
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Free |
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Divo
Sometimes you have to give a restaurant a second chance.
When I went to the opening of the much-chattered-about
Ukrainian restaurant Divo last week, things, you might
say, were not looking too promising.
Not only was the place named after a God-awful pop/opera
crossover boyband but the owners who'd christened it
had insisted on having a rather odd 'traditional buffet'
of cold meats, served by girls in panto-style wench
outfits.
But the building (an old bank) that Divo is housed
in is just so beautiful, and so different to all the
other pared down, utalitarian places that seem to be
popping up everywhere, I couldn't resist another visit.
So, I went again for a proper sit-down dinner this
week and feasted on salmon roe blinis, fragrant borscht
(ask for the extra sour cream and secret garlic sauce)
and tender veal with wild mushrooms - all in a room
that's so kitsch it's fabulous, and is topped only by
the bathrooms.
One tip, don't be tempted to order the Ukrainian wine
- it tastes like something you might have found in the
back of your granny's drinks cabinet when you were twelve
that had probably been there since before you were born.
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Cuckoo
Club
It's not enough that Cuckoo's owners decided that, post
smoking ban, the place deserves it's own fragrance, in
the form of Clive Christian's No 1 if you please, (a blend
of Mexican vanilla, cedarwood and vetiver that happens
to be the most expensive scent in the universe).
Oh no, head chef (and one of the best in London in my
opinion) Fernando Stovell has also taken it upon himself
to up the anti foodwise by introducing one of the most
mouthwatering tasting menus we've heard about in a while.
Chilled almond soup with goat's cheese sorbet and Iberico
ham, almond-crusted foie gras with pickled rhubarb and
beetroot, hand-caught scallops with chorizo and truffle
dressing, Gressingham duck with puy lentils and crispy
potatoes... we could go on.
Go yourself and inhale both fragrance and all seven courses.
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Weds-Fri
First Seating 8pm, last 10.30pm |
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Swallow
Street, W1B 4EZ |
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Tasting
Menu £60 (£90 with wine) pp. Minimum 6
people - book in advance |
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www.thecuckooclub.com |
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Weekend
guide by AC
and JJJ,
food reviews by SL
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