40 h. ago Britain's oldest Indian restaurant may have to shut in central London lease row

The Crown Estate says it needs to reclaim space used by Veeraswamy for nearly a century to carry out a ‘comprehensive refurbishment’ of Victory House

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49 h. ago Britain's oldest Indian restaurant may have to shut its doors for good after lease row

Veeraswamy, hailed as the oldest Indian restaurant in the UK, has served up its acclaimed curries just steps from Piccadilly Circus since 1926.

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1 week ago Youth Demand protest: Activists block roads in central London as they threaten to ‘shut down’ city

Protesters blocked a number of key routes in London on Saturday

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1 week ago Youth Demand block roads in central London as they threaten to ‘shut down’ city

Youth Demand block roads in central London as they threaten to ‘shut down’ city  London Evening Standard

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3 w. ago $921 for Othello: why have Broadway tickets gotten so expensive?

A blockbuster production of the Shakespeare tragedy might boast Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal but it’s sparked a debate over excessive pricingHow much would you pay to be in the same room as Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, watching them work? Is that price in the mid-hundreds of dollars? And would you double it to nearly a thousand for a slightly better seat?The 15-week limited Broadway run of William Shakespeare’s Othello, featuring one of our greatest living actors in the title role (and another, pretty damn good actor as Iago), is betting that at least some people would. Orchestra-level advance tickets to the show run between $216 and $921, depending on where you sit (those $216 tickets, more in line with what a less starry straight play might charge, are at the far side of the row, which at least means you’re getting a slightly lesser chance of catching Covid or the flu alongside your mild discount). It’s the latest innovation in live-theater pricing, where you no...

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3 w. ago $921 to see Denzel Washington’s Othello? How Broadway tickets got so expensive

A blockbuster production of the Shakespeare tragedy might boast Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal but it’s sparked a debate over excessive pricingHow much would you pay to be in the same room as Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, watching them work? Is that price in the mid-hundreds of dollars? And would you double it to nearly a thousand for a slightly better seat?The 15-week limited Broadway run of William Shakespeare’s Othello, featuring one of our greatest living actors in the title role (and another, pretty damn good actor as Iago), is betting that at least some people would. Orchestra-level advance tickets to the show run between $216 and $921, depending on where you sit (those $216 tickets, more in line with what a less starry straight play might charge, are at the far side of the row, which at least means you’re getting a slightly lesser chance of catching Covid or the flu alongside your mild discount). It’s the latest innovation in live-theater pricing, where you no...

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