Posted on April 30th, 2008 by Brina
I sacrificed a Tuesday night’s soiree in order to spend Tuesday afternoon potentially pawning all my worldly goods (my soul was even on offer for the stunning shoe-lots) to be able to buy up bags of bargains at Daphne Guinness’s charity auction.
Hosted by Kerry Taylor Auctions, Daphne offered up a small selection of her wardrobe [...]
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Posted on April 28th, 2008 by Brina
My nights out regularly take me to places where I meet faces with magical voices and intriguing instrumental skills. From beat-boxers to drum-beaters and sopranos to saxophone-playing songstresses - there is so much musical talent to be found, unsigned and unassuming, in London town.
So, I am introducing a new weekly addition to Big Smoke Soiree’s. [...]
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Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Brina
I have been away for a while. And I’m scared. My once unfaltering loyalty to London is in jeopardy. I love LA.
I never thought I would write those three little words, imagining as I did the city in my mind as one filled with vacuous, fakely vivacious Alicia-Silverstone-in-Clueless types and roads that go on forever, [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2008 by Brina
Having not been to the States since a mini-break to Miami 3 years ago, I forgot how landing at an airport terminal often feels more like arriving on a film-set…and nowhere more so than in LA.
The DEA guy smiles and jokes in stereotypical TV-cop speak, whilst his excited dog gives you a sniff. There are [...]
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Posted on March 12th, 2008 by Brina
Having been dealt such a good hand in the theatre stakes on Monday night (see my recent review), I thought it might be a bit too much to expect the beginning of the week to get even better. But that’s what it did, the cheeky little Monday…
I have always been made to feel slightly ashamed [...]
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