Legendary gay restaurant group Balans is auctioning off its sites
Lady Gaga, Kate Moss, Amy Winehouse, whoever was left standing at Shadow Lounge as the lights came up at 6am and fancied carrying on the party over a Thai Red Curry… the original Balans on London’s glittering Old Compton Street has welcomed them all.
Rush. It’s a new play starring Rupert Everett.
They had us at ‘Rupert Everett’, right? Right. Because it’s nigh on impossible for anything starring London’s glittering Rupert Everett to be a dud, even that thing he did with Our Glorious Leader (‘Madonna’ in old money). You know, that awks baby daddy one, she’s got strawberry-blonde hair, he’s got sperm.
Jaffa Cake Gin
Some things just go together. Strawberries and cream. French & Saunders. Love and marriage (that last one was just our little joke). Sex and alcohol. And now - new entry! - Jaffa Cakes and alcohol.
The Drive-In
For those of us with a car and perhaps even people to fill it, news of a peripatetic (some of us spent lockdown watching re-runs of Call My Bluff) drive-in cinema this summer will have you reaching for your phony-ponies (don’t forget the ribbon!) and leather biker jackets before you’ve had time so say, ‘Oh, Sandy!’
A Streetcar Named Desire
We won't hear a word against Gillian Anderson. We may occasionally say one but we certainly won't hear it even if we do.
+Audio
Anyone who has noticed the crackles and crunches on the rare disco tracks played over cocktails at a Jake event will have surmised that we are into our vinyl.
Warhol: A Life as Art by Blake Gopnik
Lucky we’re in lockdown because this 976-page biography of big old gay old Andy Warhol could only ever be read at home.