Natasha Archdale’s Financial Animals
Aah, remember those days of making collages in art classes in primary school? Cutting up…
Author Toby 'Lawrence' White
Uncover the Hidden Unknown
If you’re anywhere near St James’s in central London in the coming weeks and you…
Time + Trace
Larry braves an early morning exhibition preview of David Rickard’s latest show at the Sumarria Lunn Gallery in Mayfair and discovers that installation art can be a better brain-stimulus than coffee.
Le Caprice New York
Larry visits Le Caprice New York in the Pierre Hotel off Fifth Avenue, and orders a Shepherd’s Pie. Yes, you read that right. He travelled 3,400 miles across the Atlantic to order a British classic in a New York restaurant. He really did.
The Fox & Anchor, London
Fearful explorer and man-of-inaction Lawrence of Arb goes travelling closer to home and spends a night at the charismatic Fox & Anchor in Clerkenwell. Tankards of beer, baths in bedrooms; it was an experience to remember.
Frankenstein
Over their customary post-performance pizza, Larry and Al Senter discuss the National Theatre’s Frankenstein, and Larry learns there’s more to this story than Hammer Horror…
The Sixth Sense
Well, chaps, with the pressure off and Valentine’s safely out of the way, you can…
Romancing the Stone
BBC4 is fast becoming my headline TV channel. As a mine for all things cultural,…
Galapagos National Park
January: the month of return-to-work blues, the New Year detox, the attempt not to break…
Massala Indian Dining
There is an area in South East England that seems to have remained perennially in…
All Aboard the Black Moth
The Arb office is usually filled with a cacophony of industrious sounds; typewriters tapping, telephones ringing, faxes droning and kettles whistling. But a suspicious package one day brought a veil of silence upon us…
Bowmore: Water of Life, Stuff of Legend
Mark Twain wrote: “Too much of anything is bad, but too much of a good whisky is barely enough.” So what happens when Larry, Jonesy and Stirling are invited to taste a 40-year-old vintage of which only 53 bottles exist worldwide?