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Contemporary homes – in pictures

Edit The Guardian 23 Sep 2016
From London’s Barbican to ......

Benedict Cumberbatch thought he had lost Doctor Strange role

Edit Empire 23 Sep 2016
Cumberbatch was “the only actor we seriously considered”, the film’s director Scott Derrickson says. But the actor had already agreed to play Hamlet in London’s Barbican in autumn of 2015, and Strange was aiming for a summer 2016 release date ... Cumberbatch genuinely thought he’d lost the part ... “If you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past....

Crematorium's grounds honoured at awards ceremony (23-09-16) (Daventry District Council)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Sep 2016
The grounds and gardens at Rainsbrook Cemetery and Crematorium were honoured at the Heart of England in Bloom Awards ... Its grounds and gardens include an Armed Forces Memorial Wall, which was dedicated by the Bishop of Warwick, the Right Reverend John Stroyan.Other features in the grounds include a Memorial Tree of Life, the Barbican Memorial and a landscaped pond....

Creative Advertising students enjoy bumper success at YCN Awards (Buckinghamshire New University)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Sep 2016
A total of eight students from Buckinghamshire New University were among winners at the Young Creative Network (YCN) Awards 2016. The BA (Hons) Creative Advertising students enjoyed success in a range of categories at the prestigious annual showcase, presented at the Barbican Centre, London ... Resurgence category; Marc Reed and Ellis Dagnall, and Charlie Pendarves and Chloe Stephenson, in the Walkers category....

This map shows every Michelin-starred restaurant in London

Edit Business Insider 23 Sep 2016
Suckling Pig is on the menu at London's Clove Club, which has one Michelin star. Michelin stars are still the restaurant scene’s ultimate accolade, and London isn’t short of star-spangled establishments ... You can also locate the restaurants on the map below ... The new Michelin guide will be released on Monday October 3, when it will be revealed which restaurants have gained, lost and retained stars ... Dining Room at The Goring, Belgravia....

Review: Ronan Keating, York Barbican, September 21

Edit York Press 22 Sep 2016
AS with the other dozen men in York Barbican, I was a "plus 1" for Ronan's show ... ....

Frank Dickens obituary

Edit The Guardian 22 Sep 2016
Cartoonist who created the rebellious office worker Bristow. The Fleet Street cartoonist Frank Dickens, who has died aged 84, was the creator of the rebellious, pinstriped office worker Bristow ... Frank wrote the strip cartoon in collaboration with his sister Pam ... The Barbican flat to which he moved after his divorce from his Spanish wife, María del Sagrario, known as Sagra, contained only two mattresses and three racing bikes....

Leif Ove Andsnes, Barbican, London, review: 'Efficient but undistinguished'

Edit The Independent 21 Sep 2016
We don’t normally think of Sibelius as a composer for the piano, and neither – according to a Barbican programme-note – did he, dismissing the piano as ‘not interesting’ because ‘it cannot sing’ ... Enter the Norwegian pianist ... Leif Ove Andsnes Sibelius Barbican ....

Shakin' Stevens to follow "surprising" new album with York Barbican gig

Edit York Press 21 Sep 2016
WELSH rock'n'roll revivalist Shakin' Stevens will play York Barbican on May 18 next year on his biggest ever British tour, playing 33 shows in all from April 15 to May 28 ... ....

Leif Ove Andsnes review – genial but bland

Edit The Guardian 21 Sep 2016
Barbican, London. The Norwegian pianist’s performance was technically and musically, but lacked personality and risk. Leif Ove Andsnes’s recital was a legacy from last season, when he featured in one of the LSO’s artist portraits ... The Beethoven sonata with which Andsnes opened, the E flat Op 31 No 3, promised better in its clear outlines, clean textures and crisply sprung rhythms....

Massive weekend for the arts coming up! (Plymouth City Council)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Sep 2016
Over 90 events, involving 500 local, national and international artists, will be taking place all over the city from the water's edge to people's houses, the Athenaeum to the Mayflower Steps ... A one hour audio tour of the hidden Old Jewish Cemetery on Lambhay Hill (PL1 2NP) on the Barbican takes place on Friday 23 September at 11am, Saturday 24 September at 2pm and Sunday 25 September at 2pm....

National Sawdust Opens 2016-17 Season Oct 1 with Artists-in-Residence Sophia Brous and Helga Davis (21c Media Group Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Sep 2016
Hailed as a 'revelation' by The Observer and a 'prodigious chanteuse' by Rolling Stone, Brous collaborates with major companies and artists internationally, as both a performer and artistic director, with recent engagements at the Barbican, Southbank Centre and the Adelaide Festival of the Arts, and collaborations with artists including David Byrne, Julia Holter, Sean Lennon, the BBC Concert Orchestra and Kimbra ... The House Taken Over....

The New Classical: how the next generation of composers and labels are challenging classical music’s ...

Edit The Independent 20 Sep 2016
“What happens in the space where genres, sounds and ideas collide?” asked the Barbican when it invited the German pianist and composer Nils Frahm to put together a weekend of music in July ... show Yann Tiersen at the Barbican, gig review....
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