Hints and tips:
...It is good news that Handel’s operas no longer dominate its programme, but oh dear — how one’s heart sinks at this new production of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut (seen at the Hackney Empire)....
...The second opera in its spring tour is Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress (seen here at the Hackney Empire, east London) and it is better, but not by much....
...Hackney Diamonds therefore represents a risk. It requires us to believe, contrary to evidence, that the Jagger-Richards songwriting partnership is no longer semi-defunct....
Plus: English Touring Opera’s ‘The Coronation of Poppea’ at Hackney Empire offers divine slang and scorned fury
...London dealer Richard Saltoun opens his first US gallery on May 2, during New York’s Frieze Week....
...Louise Rowlands, a buying agent at Surrey-based Richard Winter Property Search, has seen “a huge increase” in people deciding to downsize....
...In its latest, Michael Armitage’s “John Barry, O Kelly, Sonny and Richard Moore”, four Hackney dustmen work through lockdown....
...None is obviously outstanding, but Lucy Hall and Luci Briginshaw vie with each other on top notes, Richard Dowling displays a youthful, lyrical tenor of note and Esme Bronwen-Smith shows off her agility....
...His musical partner, Keith Richards — who turns 80 on December 18 — did not attend, but Instagrammed Mick: “Have another good ’un; and give me a call — let me know what it’s like.”...
...At some point during the afternoon we spend together, walking through the Hackney Marshes in east London, I try to remember what the embarrassing little moniker concocted for their coterie by the music press...
...priced out of Hackney, Dalston or Finsbury Park....
...Hackney is not the only area in the capital that is losing children....
...Take a break from the news The Rolling Stones’ new album Hackney Diamonds represents a risk....
...We're here in Hipster Central, Hackney, East London. Absolutely. To see quite an exciting restaurant, Silo. It's a zero waste restaurant. What does that even mean?...
...Featuring chairs made in Peckham, plates from Hackney, bendy steelwork console tables and chairs from Barnaby Lewis in Bermondsey and tableware from David Mellor Design in the Peak District, the café will...
...Or Richard Feynman lecture on photons to an audience in Auckland in 1979....
...The latter is the involvement of Jon Rotheram, Tom Harris and John Ogier of The Marksman pub on Hackney Road....
...John Hackney slaps a clay disc on a mould, secures it with a beefy palm then spins his table towards the jaws of a pressing machine....
...Until April 10; further information and tickets here Performance ‘La bohème’, Royal Opera House A revival of Richard Jones’s 2017 staging of Puccini’s tragedy in the 100th anniversary of the composer’...
...The piece was the work of Justin Smith, who runs his small millinery atelier, J Smith Esq, out of Hackney’s Benyon Estate....
...A series of concert performances of Parsifal, conducted again by the impressive Richard Farnes, starts at the Grand Theatre, Leeds, and will travel to Manchester, Nottingham and Gateshead, before ending...
...Mine have red elastic, because it matches my ever-present lipstick (You can take the girl out of the city…). £155, blundstone.co.uk The Overstory by Richard Powers This Pulitzer-prize winning paean to...
...This Music Theatre Wales production will visit Hackney Empire, London, and three other venues over the summer. ★★★★☆ Two other recent works were notable in the first weekend....
...Richard Hammond is a journalist and author of The Green Traveller, a guide to sustainable travel, responsible planning and conscious adventure Got any tips for a green weekend in London?...
...At his Hackney showroom, he demonstrates how the glass tubes are heated over a naked flame and then bent by hand while blowing into the tube, so that it doesn’t collapse....
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