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Daily Archives: 2014-03-03
Infographic: The Shift in TV Technology
Courtesy of Sony You’ve come a long way, Tellie! From your humble black and white cathode ray tube beginnings to the ultra-wow TVs of today, you’ve entertained families across the globe for generations and you’re still the centrepiece in most homes … Continue reading
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Posted in Design, infographic, Television
Tagged 4K TV, design, infographic, sony, SPONSORED POST, television, TVs
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Craft Beer Rising Review by @cathiasays
A couple of Sundays ago (while I was still bumbling round in America), London blogger Cathia Randrianarivo kindly subbed for me accepting to attend on my behalf a beer-ific event I was unable to make. As Cathia puts it, “I … Continue reading
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Posted in Beer, Drink, Food, London, Music, Pubs, Restaurants, Shopping
Tagged ale, Batemans Bohemian Brews, beer, beer blog, beer festival, Belhaven Twisted Thistle IPA, breweries, brick lane, burger bear, Camden Town Brewery, Cathia Randrianarivo, Contributed Article, CRAFT BEER, craft beer rising, dj, double hop monster, Drink, Duvel, east london, fishdog, Food, green king, greene king, Hells Yeah!, hix's, Jingle Jungle, London, London blog, mr scruff, old dairy, old truman brewery, pub grub, REAL ALE, st edmunds, street food, Truman’s London Keeper, west brewery, Yardbird, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story at London’s Natural History Museum
Last week I popped round to the Natural History Museum to catch the Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story exhibition and was so glad I did. It’s a great show chronicling human existence in Britain since the first people set foot here (or at least as far back as the evidence suggests). I recommend going as it’s almost guaranteed you’ll be wowed by the artefacts and items on display. Continue reading
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Posted in Art, London, Museums, Video
Tagged Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story, cromwell road, exhibition, EXHIBITION REVIEW, exhibition road, fossils, kennis, Kennis and Adrie Kennis, kensington, London, London blog, model makers, museum quarter, museums, natural history, natural history museum, neanderthals, prehistoric britain, prehistory, review, south kensington, SW7, SW7 5BD, Video, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Dixie Detours: Miami in a Minute
The final stop of our Dixie Detours visit to the US was Miami, where an overnight layover afforded Kemey and me the chance to check in on some friends who had recently moved there – big thanks to Tanya and Francesco for being such fantastic hosts and showing us around so much of your fine town – while soaking up some south Florida sunshine before heading back to Blighty. Continue reading
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Posted in Beer, Coffee, Dixie Detours, Drink, Florida, Food, Hotels, Music, Restaurants, road trip, Travel, Wine
Tagged BARS, cocktails, coconut grove, collins avenue, cuban coffee, CUBAN SANDWICH, cubano, design district, Dixie Detours, Drink, florida, Food, hotels, jazz, lagniappe house, las olas, las olas cafe, las olas cafe south beach, LINCOLN ROAD, live music, lulu in the grove, lunch, MIAMI, MIAMI BEACH, miami dade, miami florida, midtown miami, music, restaurants, road trip, sanctuary south beach, scotty's landing, SOUTH BEACH, south florida, Travel, travel blog, wine bar, wynwood
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London Daily Photo: Lower Clapton Rainbow
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Posted in London, London Daily Photo, Photography
Tagged clapton, CLAPTON POND, E5, east london, hackney, LDP, London, London blog, London Daily Photo, london photographer, lower clapton road, night photography, Photography, photography blog, rainbow, street photography, Лондон, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Dixie Detours: Sweet Shoals Music
Before our visit to the Muscle Shoals area of Alabama, I never would have imagined the music of Aretha Franklin could resonate even more with me than it already did. Goosebumps on top of goosebumps – how’s that gonna happen? But there I was standing in Studio A of Fame Studios in humble little Florence, Alabama where the mighty diva recorded such classics as Do Right Woman, Do Right Man, and something clicked in a deep and soulful sort of way. In the few days since Kemey and I checked out the Shoals, listening to Aretha’s songs has been coupled with an even deeper and more satisfying feeling than before. Continue reading
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Posted in Alabama, Beer, Design, Dixie Detours, Drink, Food, Hotels, Music, Restaurants, road trip, Travel
Tagged 20th century design, Alabama, Alabama Music Hall of Fame, ARCHITECTURE, aretha franklin, back forty, back forty beer, back forty beer company, bar, beer, birthplace of helen keller, Bob Seger, catfish, Cher, colbert county, CRAFT BEER, Deep South, design, Dixie Detours, do right woman do right man, Drink, Duane Allman, Etta James, fame studios, florence, florence alabama, frank lloyd wright, garden gate cafe, hank williams, helen keller, hotel, ivy green, kodachrome, live music, Lynyrd Skynyrd, marriott, marriott shoals, Marriott Shoals Hotel & Spa, mid century modern, Muscle Shoals, muscle shoals rhythm section, muscle shoals sound studio, music, naked pig, naked pig pale ale, north alabama, northwest alabama, OH! Bryan's Family Steakhouse, Oh!Bryan's, Otis Redding, pale ale, paul simon, Percy Sledge, recording studio, restaurants, road trip, Rock 'n' Roll, rolling stones, rosenbaum house, sheffield alabama, shoals, soul music, spa, steakhouse, sticky fingers, still crazy after all these years, sun ra, Swampers, swampers bar, Swampers Bar & Grill, tennessee river, the Osmonds, the shoals, TOM JONES, Travel, travel blog, tuscumbia, tuscumbia county, Wilson Picket
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