As part of React Records 20th anniversary club tour, the frantically busy Deep Dish promises an exclusive four-hour set. The prolific producers and DJs played with Madonna at her show in New York in November and remixed her latest single. In Hong Kong, the duo Ali and Sharam residents of Twilo in New York and Renaissance in the UK will be pounding out an eclectic set with an undercurrent of progressive house and techno.
Museums
March 28, 2010The cheapest and most convenient way to discover Venice’s many civic museums is to buy the Biglietto cumulativo – a cumulative ticket that allows entry to a host of interesting buildings. Most important are the Doge’s Palace, the court of the rulers of the Republic and Museo Correr, the museum of the history of Venice. Others nearby include the architectural masterpiece by sansovino, the Libreria Nazionale Marciana, the Museo Archeologico (both in St Mark’s Square) and the Palazzo Mocenigo for lovers of things decorative. The ticket can be purchased from any of the above and is valid for several months.
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Bonomo Faita at the Gallery Hotel
March 25, 2010The Gallery Hotels’ sophisticated and minimalist public rooms are ideal backdrops for Bonomo Faita’s particular brand of art, known as ‘The Bonomo Effect’. Photographs, coloured drawings and polychrome canvases are all part of a vision of the extraordinary nature of life’s banalities. The artist photographs objects, landscapes and people and then paints them. Pistols, plastic bags, sheep…Bonomo’s art is an open space that unites heaven and earth in the palm of a hand.
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Church Chorus Pass
March 24, 201013 of Venice’s most precious religious institutions have grouped together to raise funds for their continued preservation. A ticket can be bought for L15,000 which allows entry to all of the churches – including Frari, San Sebastiano, Madonna dell’Orto, Miracoli and the Redentore – which is a great saving on the usual single entry price. You will also be supplied with a useful and simple map with which to plan your sacred itinerary. It’s an ideal situation as visitors save money while the buildings raise the funds they so desperately need.
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Museum of Coastal Defence
March 22, 2010Despite the drab name, the first military museum to open in Hong Kong offers a fascinating voyage through 600 years of history. Situated in the 19th-century Lei Yue Mun Fort, the museum features Opium War relics, a British army tank and even People’s Liberation Army uniforms. It charts maritime defence from the Ming period 1394 to 1643 through the following Qing dynasty, the 19th-century Opium War, the World War II Japanese occupation and the end of British colonial rule.
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Paradise Rock Club
March 19, 2010For years, the Paradise Rock Club was one of the mainstays of the Boston night club scene. It’s a drinking and dancing hotspot and a regular stop for up-and-coming national touring bands. U2, Soul Asylum and R.E.M. all played the Paradise back when they were still booked into under-1000 capacity venues. But last year, after a series of code violations brought the club’s owners under city scrutiny, the club was forced to close. Now, the Paradise is back and hosting shows by local heavy hitters like the Gravel Pit and national headliners like the Wallflowers.
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Perthshire
March 14, 2010
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Alfred Brendel
March 7, 2010The most cerebral of the current pantheon of great pianists, Alfred Brendel will perform works by Mozart as part of the Winterträume festival. As part of a piano quartet featuring his son Adrian on cello, Brendel will interpret the Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat major, K 493, Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K 478 and Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K 414, arranged for Piano Quartet.
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Auckland City
March 4, 2010
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The House of Frette
March 3, 2010This Italian linen house, founded in the 1850s, has opened a boutique on Oak Street, Chicago’s haven for designer labels. It offers the company’s signature linens as well as its collection of fragrances for the home, scented candles, sachets and a recently introduced line of luxury at-home clothing. Suppliers to the Italian royal family, Frette is best known for ‘jacquard’ print bedding of 300-600 thread count Egyptian cotton and linen. Originally, the House of Frette introduced ‘jacquard’ looms as an efficient means of producing detailed luxury products.
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