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Tue Nov 17 2009
We're giving stuff away: get a free Time Out guide on Friday
If you’re planning to go to Amsterdam, Barcelona, New York, Paris, Prague or Rome sometime soon, you might want to take an up-to-date city guide with you. Even better, you might want to take a FREE up-to-date Time Out city guide with you.
If this appeals, come to our office (251 Tottenham Court Road, underneath the neon sign) this Friday between 11.30am and 3.30pm and we will replace any non-Time Out travel guide with one of the above. The first 2,000 people will also get a copy of the excellent ‘London Calling’ book, which includes a brilliant essay by me about London football.
More info here.
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Fri Nov 13 2009
Pick of the week: the best of this week's London blogs
Diamond Geezer’s explicitly geeky annual tube week includes a withering review of a new book about the tube which contains some elements he appears to recognise.
James Ward has a lovely post about trying to track down the previous owner of a book he bought in a second hand bookshop in Soho.
London Reconnections on the last bendy 38, due to be scrapped this weekend.
Transpontine on the ‘Croydonisation’ of Lewisham. Yes, it is a real word.
Former Time Out-er Jessica Cargill Thompson on How To Be Unemployed. Includes handy guide on what to watch on daytime TV.
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Happiness Is Still An Option… but not on Time Out
After six weeks’ online 'pop-up' space kindly donated by Time Out, today my weekly story, Happiness Is An Option, moves to its permanent home here.
Over this period, the question I've been asked most - other than when will Marianne and Archie get together – is why write a serial at all? Doesn't it fall somewhere between short story and novel? And, anyway, who in 2009 has time to read hundreds of words of fiction during a tea-slurping online graze?
I wasn't sure. But Woody Allen once said that 80 per cent of success is showing up, and even if the experiment was an utter failure, I figured it was worth a try. An itch must be scratched, after all. And the story’s very London feel is driven by the fact that my passion for the city hasn’t waned even though – or maybe because – I've lived here for nearly 30 years. So it seemed natural, as they used to say in Time Out’s Big Smoke section, to make London 'the...
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Thu Nov 12 2009
Sex and Berlin: Nancy Kienholz on ‘The Hoerengracht’ at the National Gallery
I’m sitting in a Berlin brothel, talking prices with a man. Arts journalism has not let me down so badly I’ve turned to prostitution – at least, not quite yet. It is the brothel itself that’s the commodity: it is the first important installation or ‘environment’ by the American artist Ed Kienholz, and the man, Reinhard Onnasch, owns it – in fact, like a john who finds a particular girl to his liking, he bought it twice (although in his case, that’s because he lost all his money and had to sell his art collection to a Swiss who kindly agreed to sell it back, at a profit, once Reinhard had made his next real estate fortune).
Can a brothel still shock? Kienholz made this one in 1961, in his mid-thirties, but he wanted to convey the feelings of the naïve teenager he would have been when he visited the original, in Nevada in 1943. ‘Ed was very young when he went to this brothel,’ his widow, Nancy, will tell me. ‘The...
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