Lauren Paxman previews The UK Green Film Festival, opening Sat June 1
The UK Green Film Festival hits screens in three London cinemas this weekend, giving capital dwellers the chance to brush up on all those vitally important environmental issues we are interested in but never quite got around to Googling.
CINNAMON SOHO: AN UNUSUAL ADDITION TO THE THEATRE DISTRICT? KERENZA EVANS INVESTIGATES.
Colour me sheltered, but I believe Cinnamon Soho is the first restaurant I’ve ever been to that serves brains on the menu. Lamb brains to be specific and a winner of the ‘Best in Taste of London’ Award in 2012 for curious foodies. People, even carnivorous ones, can get rather precious about eating the actual cranium of a creature seemingly viewing it as somewhat more barbaric than consuming the rest of the animal.
KERENZA EVANS SAMPLES THE HIGHEST OF HIGH TEAS
I’ve unknowingly walked past Paramount many a time while on my way to bustling Oxford Street. Paramount sits in the vicinity of Tottenham Court Road, atop ‘Centre Point’, a building whose imposing and distinguishing height has often made me wonder if inside dwells the lair of a Bond Villain. Such an illusion was continued as my guest and I entered the building to be escorted to the elevator by the receptionist, despite the fact it lay a mere 10 feet away.
Climate, Consumerism, Community - bold subjects for the Two Degrees festival by Artsadmin. Co-Director Judith Knight talks art and activism.
Judith Knight is co-director of Artsadmin, a producing and development organization for interdisciplinary artists based at Toynbee Studios London, which she founded in 1979. Increasingly Artsadmin has focused much of its work on climate change and more environmentally sensitive arts production.
INTERVIEW: Katie Antoniou talks to Mark Donne about his controversial new documentary 'THE UK GOLD'
Our attention was recently drawn to a new documentary narrated by "The Wire" actor Dominic West with a new soundtrack from Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Massive Attack's Robert Del Naja, receiving a London premiere just as the G8 rolls out of town in June.