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Issue 290 |
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Your event guide
Here's a snapshot of our favorite things to do in London. |
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There's a lot of transformative energy going on this month, both north and south of the river. Junction spotlights the changing face of King's Cross, as local residents try to adapt to the transport-led rebirth of the area; Brixton Market is undergoing its own mini-renaissance, this time led by an assortment of creative types and their wonderful ideas for boutique shopping; and the city-wide London Word Festival celebrates alternative literature through "shadow-puppetry, micro-lectures, screen-printing nuns, performance poetry and crime-comic jazz interpretations". Now that's Flavorpill's kind of writing.
- Kieran Wyatt, Managing Editor
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Happy birthday, Fred Perry
Fred Perry ushers in their 100th birthday in their typical sporty fashion. Besides finding a wide array of cable-knit vests, sharp blazers and reasonably priced buttondowns and polos, you can also score a limited-edition Fred Perry-customized Vespa LXV 125 and other Fred Perry 100-year gifts. Cruise through 2010 in style.
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SPECIAL FEATURE
The secret life of Syrian lingerie
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A deeply religious and conservative country, Syria is one of the last places you might expect to find sexy lingerie à la Fredericks of Hollywood. However, that's exactly what two London-based women of Middle Eastern descent found when they rummaged through the markets, shops, and factories of Damascus. Editor/journalist Malu Halasa and designer Rana Salam assembled a surreal collection of sequined, furred, and zippered panties and bras, as well as catalog photos of Eastern European women modeling the lingerie sets. »
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MORE FLAVOR: Party
The Westbury 3rd Birthday w/ the Cuban Brothers
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Friday 5 Mar (8pm–3am)
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The Westbury (34 Kilburn High Road, NW6, 020.7625.7500)
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Free before 10pm then £5
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This gem of a bar space on the Kilburn High Road celebrates three years of hard partying with a bonzer DJ lineup. Legendary party animals the Cuban Brothers headline with their Latino comedy-cabaret shtick, laced with lashings of hard funk and bizarre disco. Meanwhile Russian ex-pat DJ Vadim drops killer hip-hop and Benji Boko does his live remix thing. Add in mountains of candyfloss, a close-up magician, sumptuous canapes (arrive early) and assorted adult play areas (ball pit, giant cupcake) and we have the makings of what's likely to be the mother of all hangovers come Saturday morning.
- Kieran Wyatt
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MUSIC: Electronic
Crookers album launch @ Bugged Out!
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Saturday 6 Mar (10:30pm–6am)
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Fire Club (38-42 Parry Street, SW8, 020.7820.0550)
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Milanese electro-crunch duo Crookers have dragged dance music into a terrifying but exhilarating new place over the last couple of years, with sexy, big-bang crossover remixes of Kelis, Kid Cudi and Fever Ray to name but three. Tonight sees the launch of their debut album, the honestly titled collaborator-fest Tons of Friends. To celebrate in characteristic no-holds-barred fashion, the twosome rope in Bugged Out! to organise their birthday celebrations at Fire, an event that culminates in a very messy, bass-heavy main-room set by the pair. The very capable Boy 8 Bit, Hannah Holland and Untold keep pulses racing in the meantime.
- Joe Rudkin
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FILM: Documentary
Under Great White Northern Lights
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Monday 8 Mar (6:15pm)
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HMVCurzon Wimbledon (23 The Broadway, Wimbledon, SW19)
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Under Great White Northern Lights is not just any old band documentary — it's a searing, touching and penetrating look at the White Stripes during their 2007 tour of Canada, one that took in every province and territory from "the ocean to the permafrost". Many of the gigs took place in very small towns, where the locals didn't even know who Jack and Meg were, forcing the duo to up their game considerably. We get blistering renditions of most of their big tunes but the real insights come offstage, especially the snatched conversations with the duo and the ecstatic audience reactions.
- Kieran Wyatt
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ART
Junction
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Thursday 11 Mar (10am–6pm)
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Camden Arts Centre (Arkwright Road, NW3, 020.7472.5500)
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FREE
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Camden Arts Centre brings together for the first time the Junction project's three site-specific installations, all commissioned to explore King's Cross life. William Hunt's contribution saw musicians take to the stage for Saturday Night TV, a talent contest with a twist (each performer was hooked up to a polygraph). Belgian Ria Pacquée's piece is also a film, secretly recorded in NW1 over the summer, which documents the rapidly changing character of the area. Finally, collective public works took their Folk Float out and about to catalogue local opinions, resulting in a community forum in the gallery.
- Lucy Davies
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MORE FLAVOR: City Gem
Field
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Saturday 13 Mar (10am–6pm)
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Brixton Market (off Coldharbour Lane, SW9, 020.7274.2990)
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The Space Makers Agency has transformed the tatty Brixton Village market arcade over the last few months, launching pop-up and temporary shops selling leftfield wares (vintage clothes, fancy lanterns, old-school sweets) and alternative treatments. Field is the latest opening, a collaboration between floral design company Thinking Flowers? and bespoke tailors Ribbon Tank. Today's launch party features discounts on special-edition t-shirts and floral commissions, art from RCA students, DJs playing suitably cross-cultural sounds and a barrel of free booze. What's not to like?
- Kieran Wyatt
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MUSIC: Electronic
Punx Soundcheck @ Together
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Friday 19 Mar (10pm–5am)
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The Coronet Theatre (28 New Kent Road, SE1, 020.7701.1500)
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Punx Soundcheck are John Taylor and Arif Salih, a British DJ/production duo who combine their individual loves of breaks and '80s electro-pop to create thundering, swirling dance-floor monsters. Hot on the heels of their third LP, From The Roots (released last month on Hottwerk Records), Punx headline the Nuke Them All room for this second week of Together's inspired takeover of the Coronet. Expect things from house, dubstep, reggae and rave influences you didn't think were possible. The excellent-and-completely-nuts Bloody Beetroots and Man Like Me perform live elsewhere. Wow.
- Joe Rudkin
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ART
Fred Calmets: Skull and Vanity
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Thursday 25 Mar
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Galerie Envie d'Art (16 Victoria Grove, Kensington, W8, 020.7589.8200)
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Fred Calmets has exhibited his unique pop-culture portraits globally, with audiences responding to the combination of graphical, crisp line-work and expressive colour-field chaos. His new series, Skull and Vanity, retains this stylistic formulation, but with a decidedly Shakespearean twist — presenting the portraiture inclusive of mortality. These deliciously dark acrylic paintings are infused with the Gothic romance of the famous Paris catacombs and evoke a bit of the old "alas, poor Yorick". They remind us of the fancies of the living imagination, as well as the mystery of life's only guarantee — its inevitable end.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
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PERFORMING ARTS: Spoken Word
London Word Festival
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Sunday 7 Mar
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The capital's alternative celebration of all things written and spoken is back with a bumper line-up. See the results of Josie Long's self-improvement project, One Hundred Days to Make Me a Better Person, at a to-be-revealed venue. Create a unique artwork at The Henningham Family Press's Chip Shop, a mobile screen-printing unit where you can have a word of your choice printed on a piece of chipboard — all for the price of a bag of chips. Or listen to John Hegley leading a poetic tribute to Ron Arad (another self-confessed word nerd) amid the designer's iconic creations in the Barbican's current retrospective.
- Lucy Davies
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About Us |
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Cultural Partner
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Editors
MANAGING EDITOR
Kieran Wyatt
DEPUTY EDITOR
Joe Rudkin
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Lucy Davies
PUBLISHERS
Sascha Lewis
Mark Mangan
SENIOR EDITORS
Doug Levy
Leah Taylor
Shana Nys Dambrot
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