There are many things the French do not like about Britain (the weather, the working hours, the fact we make better cheese) but I was surprised to find, in the course of a standard dressing down from a Gallic couple of my acquaintance, The Great British pub included in the litany of [...]
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The Bristol-based street art anonymous champion known only as Banksy is holding an exhibition in London this weekend. The recently-renovated Library on Islington’s never-quite-fashionable Upper Street plays host to a range of works by Banksy and his fellow aerosol-wielding chums.
The exhibition has been organized by Bristol-based contemporary street art gallery Crazy [...]
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A father and his 14-year-old son are facing life sentences after being convicted of stabbing a man to death in an east London pub.
Harry and his father Jason Michael Farrant, 39, caused havoc in two local pubs, the Old Bailey was told.
During two months this year they had used weapons on three [...]
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Brasilia is anxious. For where you go you hear the long-awaited tour Pandemonium, the Pet Shop Boys. The show will take place this Sunday (11), at 21h, at Marina Hall. The British duo, formed by Neil Francis Tennant and Christopher Sean Lowe will invade the city with the presentation of his new CD “Yes”, which [...]
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In the pubs of the City and Canary Wharf and the champagne does not run but the draft beer. The Ferraris and Lamborghinis gathering dust behind the windows of dealers, now that billionaires and bonuses do not fall like manna from heaven. The upscale restaurants miss the business dinners with wine bottles thousand pounds. The [...]
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The institute has 56 years and has been visited by politicians and personalities of all time is a corner open to the public who want a drink or a beer after work.
“For over five decades, Sparks has been the meeting point for guests of the Hotel Tequendama and will remain, but in future will be [...]
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‘Study for the Portrait of Innocent X’ was sold for 35 million euros
In April the exhibition closed its doors anthology, the first since his death in 1992, the Prado Museum dedicated to Francis Bacon. Now is the centenary of the birth of Irish artist and her figure has now reached the category of idol of [...]
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Volunteers with Disabilities of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign will be organizing clients cinemas, pubs, stadiums and other entertainment establishments in the UK, in order to verify their accessibility incognito for wheelchair users, reports the BBC’s website.
These volunteers will visit such establishments throughout the country, starting with London in order to ascertain the accessibility problems reported [...]
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Posted on November 2nd, 2009 in Londonpubs dwarf
Tom Major-Ball was born in 1879 in Walsall, a small industrial city in central England. His parents emigrated to America when Tom was five, and the boy learned to make a living from a young age. He joined a circus still a teenager and has specialized in numbers trapeze. Then he moved on to vaudeville. [...]
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Posted on November 2nd, 2009 in Londonpubs soccer
On Saturday, the British will be without his favorite hobby: watching the game of soccer team in England in the relaxed atmosphere of the pubs. For the first time, a departure Português Team will be broadcast exclusively over the Internet and some cinemas in the country. The TV channels will not show the match against [...]
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