Here come the girls – golden of course.
It is now less than five weeks till Christmas and the start of the ‘party’ season. Office parties highlight the idiosyncracies of gender.
‘Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.’
The British Graffiti artist Banksy has been plying his trade for nearly twenty years and, during that time, has courted controversy with his contempt for the labelling of graffiti as ‘vandalism’. You either love or you hate it. We love it.
Christmas brings out the impresario in all of us.
Fortnum’s is a theatre and every day they put on a show. This Christmas the aim is to exaggerate and emphasise this with tender quirky detail, humour and irony. Playing on tradition and the seasonal form of entertainment: Pantomime, but mixed with a little dusting of Burlesque magic.
Red October
The month October has become famous as ‘Red October’, due to the Bolshevik Revolution which started on 25 October 1917. Russia was in turmoil with major issues affecting social, economic, and political relations. Russia’s national debt had risen to 50 billion rubles and there were no IMF bail-outs on offer.
One week till Halloween; grab a pumpkin
October is the tenth month of the year, which is strange when you consider that it comes from the Latin ‘octo’ meaning eight. The Romans didn’t seem too bothered when they added July and August, named after Julius and Augustus Caesar respectively, before it in the calendar.
