36 h. ago Royal Cocktail Academy: Inside London’s Most Innovative Bars

Royal Cocktail Academy: Inside London’s Most Innovative Bars  maxim.com

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56 h. ago The ‘delightful’ hidden Scottish bar that’s been named best in the world

A multi-award winning Scottish bar known for its innovative cocktails has been named best in the world.

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7 d. ago I found central London’s prettiest hotel with the most unusual cocktails I’ve ever tried

We checked in to this stylish new hotel in west London and discovered stunning interiors, a tranquil garden and innovative drinks at the bar

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1 week ago Crystal Palace's Director of Academy recruitment leaves for Championship club

Crystal Palace's Director of Academy recruitment leaves for Championship club  This Is Local London

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2 w. ago A Story of South Asian Art review – banging sculpture marred by dreary neighbours

Royal Academy, London Mrinalini Mukherjee’s surreal spins on Indian folk and sacred art are powerfully fascinating, but they gain nothing from works shown with them hereAs you enter the galleries you can’t avoid the slobbish giant. Maybe it is drunk or drugged as it towers and slumps, a red and brown creature with a demonic face and sagging stomach. If the cord suspending it from the ceiling snapped it would just be a pile of hemp on the floor.This monster has all the qualities that make the art of Mrinalini Mukherjee, who was born in Mumbai in 1949 and died in 2015, funny, fascinating and surreal. She created it in 1985, making it, like many of her works, with tightly woven, intensely coloured natural fibres. It is called Pakshi, meaning bird, and now I see it, the feathery flanks and floppy wings. Mukherjee’s sculpture is a hallucinatory but sharply observed response to nature, full of echoes of the Indian landscape and, in this case, India’s skies. If a bird can become an ogre in...

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2 w. ago Live Review: Spacey Jane at O2 Academy Brixton, London – 23 October 2025

Live Review: Spacey Jane at O2 Academy Brixton, London – 23 October 2025  beatsperminute.com

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