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Propeller Island City Lodge
July 15, 2010After much struggle and hassles with the authorities, Berlin’s wackiest hotel is ready to welcome guests in the newly completed extension. The artist and musician owner, Lars Stroschen, has created a wild dream landscape in which each room is a unique, handcrafted artwork. There’s the ‘upside-down room’ where all the furniture is stuck to the [...]
Vanity
July 14, 201028 E 23rd St between Madison Ave and Park Ave South (212-254-6117) Subway: N, R, 6 to 23rd St. Vanity isn’t much to look at, and the name is pretty tired, but as one of Manhattan’s fairly few smallish dance clubs it fills a definite need. It actually has a pretty nice little dance floor [...]
Panorama – La Línea de la Concepción
July 10, 2010Jongleurs Battersea
July 6, 2010The Cornet, 49 Lavender Gardens, SW11 (020 7564 2500) Clapham Junction rail. Performances 8.45pm Fri; 7.15pm, 11.15pm, Sat. Admission Fri ?14, ?11 OAPs, students, disabled, ES40s; Sat ?12, ?9 students, OAPs, disabled, ES40s. Credit MC, V. Website: http://www.jongleurs.com One of the leadingLondon comedy clubs, Jongleurs occupies an impressive first-floor hall,and presents varied line-ups – often [...]
Miami International Boat Show
July 2, 2010A sailor’s delight, this year’s Miami International Boat Show has been expanding its exhibition areas. There will be new activities like a custom boat-builders section, free boat rides on a variety of craft and an expanded sailboat exhibition located on nearby Watson Island. The Boat Show draws a huge crowd, and offers its guests a [...]
Ono.com
June 13, 2010Madrid is full of cyber cafés nowadays, but this one is amongst the best in town and possibly in Europe. It claims to be the first wide band establishment of its kind on the continent and offers really fast downloads and surfing, a Mac area, software specially designed for the sightless, scanning and printing facilities [...]
Of Hearts and Hands: Traditional Chinese Puppet Exhibition
June 10, 2010The newly-formed, non-profit organisation Hong Kong Puppet Centre display some of the most colourful and interesting string people. Traditional and modern marionettes feature, some with amazingly intricate embroidered silk clothes and others from Chinese legends. The exhibits appear rather staid as they’re kept behind glass to preserve them, but the centre’s staff will pull them [...]
Markt
June 5, 2010401 W 14th St at Ninth Ave (212-727-3314) Subway: L to Eighth Ave; A, C, E to 14th St. Mon-Fri 5pm-1am; Sat Sun 10-1am. Average main course: $16. AmEx, Disc, DC, MC, V. If you can squeeze by the packed bar scene at this 4,500-square-foot Belgian brasserie in the heart of the meatpacking District, enjoy [...]
Children at their Finest
June 3, 2010Some of the world’s greatest artists used their talents to portray young children in the 16th and 17th-centuries. The Low Countries saw more of this activity than anywhere else in Europe and the results can be seen in this unique exhibition, housed in Antwerp’s Fine Arts Museum in collaboration with Haarlem’s Frans Hals Museum. Portraits [...]
