Food & Drink
The No 11 Martini Cocktail kit: “We wanted to take a piece of the Connaught Bar and make it available for you”
"James Bond asked us for a shaken martini but... stirred, not shaken," the duo laugh. Year after year…
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Cinema & TV
“Stories that connect us all”: Inaugural Disney Launchpad celebrates diverse young filmmakers
While it sometimes feels progress in the movie industry can be snail-paced and hard-won, it nonetheless seems we…
By Sarah Bradbury
Cinema & TV
“I hope we can continue to see complicated women like we’ve seen complicated men”: Emma Seligman on Shiva Baby
“You look like Gwyneth Paltrow on food stamps,” is just one of the many acerbic lines to emerge…
By Sarah Bradbury
Cinema & TV
“More and more women are creating things for themselves”: Sarah Roy on Zebra Girl
The opening scenes of Zebra Girl see the cashmere jumper and pearl earring-clad anti-heroine Catherine stab her unsuspecting…
By Sarah Bradbury
Cinema & TV
Caveat: An interview with director Damian McCarthy
Damian McCarthy’s debut feature film, Caveat, is a thrilling ride that confirms the Irish director’s talent for suspense,…
By Mersa Auda
Music
“It’s quite difficult as the woman in the partnership to be seen”: An interview with Yulia Mahr
The collaboration between visual artist Yulia Mahr and composer Max Richter goes back 30 years to when Mahr,…
By Sarah Bradbury
Music
LYR’s Patrick Pearson: “I don’t think you can ever get close to the energy that you’ll find live”
On paper, band LYR are something of a motley crew, formed of poet laureate Simon Armitage, multi-instrumentalist and…
By Sarah Bradbury
Food & Drink
Spotlight: Chef Ravinder Bhogal on the power of cooking with love and without borders
With the aim of promoting a food industry that is sustainable and diverse, The Upcoming has launched a Spotlight…
By Rosamund Kelby
Music
Jon Batiste: “Black culture has been enjoyed but black people have been marginalised in many different ways”
Jon Batiste’s first foray into music came out of sheer curiosity, when he transcribed the music from video…
By Sarah Bradbury
Theatre
The Lion King: An interview with Kayi Ushe, Simba in the reopening West End show
After what feels like an eternity away from the stage, the roaring musical The Lion King has a…
By Cristiana Ferrauti