Funk, reggae and soul nights at Radost FX have made Tuesdays into virtual weekends, packing the floor of this tripped-out basement dancefloor. It’s currently done up as ‘Don Juan in outer space’ and remains the heart of glam rocking in the city. Radost’s all-night disco, ground-floor lounge and vegetarian café are always attractions as well.
Soul Train
October 31, 2008
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Mangualde (Portugal)
October 29, 2008
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Ousmane Sow
October 27, 2008The latest free open-air sculpture exhibition organised by the Mairie de Paris groups 68 larger-than-life sculptures by Senegalese artist Sow on the Pont des Arts. Made entirely from recycled material to resemble caked-mud figures, his serene-faced Masai warriors and the 24 men (and 11 horses) in the Little Big Horn tableau are a striking collection.
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Mickaël Bethe-Selassie’s The Magic Woods
October 26, 2008Ethiopian artist Mickaël Bethe-Selassie has created a forest of towering and colourful papier-mâché sculptures, which evokes a magical world of wombs and warriors, ghosts and mutant beasts. He sees himself as a symbolic reconstructor of those forests, which supplied the wood for the paper he works with. While strongly drawing from the mythology of his country and the rest of Africa, his work also resonates with influences from Tibet and Japan.
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Brussels by Light
October 23, 2008If any city could be described as a chameleon, it would be Brussels. Alternating between a big village, with a real sense of community, and a bureaucratic wasteland, inhabited more by office-blocks than people, it draws a curiously ambivalent response from visitors and residents alike. This exhibition captures that juxtaposition of ugliness and beauty, using the works of 11 photo-artists, including such celebrated snappers as Dirk Braeckman and Marin Kasimir. Organised as part of the events for Brussels’ stint as a European City of Culture.
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Smoking Area
October 20, 2008
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New Music Marathon
October 18, 2008This international festival of contemporary music, presented in collaboration with the Society for New Music, exposes Prague’s normally timid audiences to the outrageous forces of the Czech Ensemble Mondschein and the Azerbaijan SoNoR Ensemble Baku (at 7.30pm on November 19). The uncategorisable tones and disharmonies of composers Elmir Mirzoev and Miroslav Pudlák add fuel to the fire, and even the Prague Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra is drawn into the fray for the first night of this three-day fest. On November 20, workshops, lectures, videos and discussions with these composers, among others, are being held, starting at 10am. Britain’s Gavin Bryars Ensemble, the Vilnius New Music Ensemble, the Czech Agon Orchestra and the Studio New Music Moscow perform original and challenging stuff on November 21 at 5pm.
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Des and Rosie Ride Again
October 17, 2008An old-school comedy duo in the shape of Des Keogh and Rosaleen Lenihan offers a brand new revue at HQ. It has been 15 years since the pair last worked together – in the 1980s Des and Rosaleen (Ireland’s answer to Ethel Merman?) toured the length and breadth of the country filling theatres everywhere. With an up-dated act (but atill playing up the glorious naffness), they have roped in another old acquaintance, Professor Peter O’Brien, to play piano and lead the quartet of musicians through comedy acts and musical duets.
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Sunset From Smith Point Park Bridge, Long Island, NY Sunset View 20081011 by IMRAN™ – 04
October 13, 2008
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Jamiroquai
October 10, 2008Britain’s big-hatted, fast-car-loving mini-master of funk is phenomenally popular in Japan, and a Jamiroquai November gig is almost an annual event here. Tickets for these shows at the giant Tokyo Dome baseball stadium were sold out weeks ago, so if you’re really desperate you’ll have to try to get a ticket from a tout. If not, you’d be well advised to stay at home with a hot cup of cocoa and a Stevie Wonder album instead.
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