April 15th, 2014 
Alpinist 
INSIDER GUIDE: Hayleigh Evans, co-owner of POPArt theatre, takes us through her ideal day in Maboneng, the hip inner-city neighbourhood of Johannesburg.
MORNING
‘For breakfast, it’s a toss-up between my favourite coffee-and-croissant sidewalk spot, Uncle Merv’s (corner of Fox and Kruger Streets), and a traditional omelette at Canteen. (more…)
April 15th, 2014 Alpinist 
Riding high on her collaboration with David Byrne, indie singer St Vincent reveals her home-town tips.
The Bowery Ballroom, Delancey Street
‘This is my favourite music venue. (more…)
April 15th, 2014 Alpinist 
Resident Jorn Weisbrodt, director of arts festival Luminato, reveals his favourite places to hang out in his home city.
NEIGHBOURHOOD
‘Toronto has great neighbourhoods. We [Weisbrodt and his partner, Rufus Wainright] live in the Annex [an arty area favoured by creatives and academics] and love that it’s close to downtown but quiet too.’
WHERE TO EAT
‘My favourite restaurant is the Harbord Room, though I should stop saying that as it’s becoming harder and harder to get a reservation. (more…)
April 15th, 2014 Tourist 
The inaugural London Street Photography Festival will bring together the work of international artists this month.
Throughout July, a series of photographs which document everyday life, highlighting amusing juxtapositions and exposing bizarre habits, will be on show alongside a diverse events programme at various venues in the capital. (more…)
April 15th, 2014 Tourist 
Will you be in New York tomorrow? If so, you must visit the city’s one-day Museum Mile Festival, during which nine of its finest museums will offer free admission.
The celebration will also see car traffic diverted from the 23-block stretch of Fifth Avenue that runs from the Metropolitan Museum of Art at 82nd Street to El Museo del Barrio on 105th Street, so visitors – tourists and locals alike – can enjoy the museums as well as a mile-long street party complete with live music and performances. (more…)
April 15th, 2014 Tourist 
In the current David Bowie Is… exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert museum, the star reveals that as a young man getting a red London bus to his job at an advertising agency in Soho in the swinging 60s, he would carry an “intellectual looking” book that he had no intention of reading, in the hope of attracting potential lovers who thought he was intriguing. (more…)
April 15th, 2014 Tourist 
Roll out the bunting – Jubilee fever has hit the country! There are more than twice the number of street parties planned than for the Royal Wedding last year, and we’re even beginning to think commemorative mugs can be cool. (more…)
April 15th, 2014 Manager 
Bristol-based street artist Banksy has kicked off a month-long residency ‘Better Out Than In’ on the streets of New York this month; a name inspired by a quote by French artist Paul Cezanne: ‘All pictures painted inside, in the studio, will never be as good as those done outside.’
It’s apt timing, really, and true to the street-art ethos, considering that some of the city’s most famous tourist sights are closed while the US government renegotiates its budget. (more…)
April 15th, 2014 Manager 
London is embracing Victoriana like it never went out of fashion. Here’s four haunts that Miss Haversham would definitely approve of…
LEYSHON BROTHERS BONDED WAREHOUSE
You half expect the artful dodger to pinch your wallet at this ‘secret’ warehouse, transformed into a gin palace with faded Union Jacks and flickering candles. (more…)
April 15th, 2014 Manager 
Sometimes it’s hard to find the most obvious things in the most obvious places. While much of London (and indeed the UK) has been besotted with the British food revival for some time, just north of Oxford Street in Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia (the area north of Soho, and consequently nicknamed ‘Noho’), the choices are strangely few and far between. (more…)
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