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.
Author Toby 'Lawrence' White
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?
The Boaters Inn
When it comes to eateries, there’s been talk in the office of our diversifying of…
A Festival of Classic Proportions
One doesn’t associate classical music with the traditional grass-and-mud rock festival. Surely the two sit at the opposite ends of the musical and cultural spectrum? Due to the efforts of some very clever people, that’s all about to change.
Martin Freeman and Me
With The Hobbit about to grace our screens, Toby White muses on his encounter with Bilbo Baggins himself – the affable Martin Freeman – and reveals that sometimes reality can turn into an uncomfortable comedy…
London’s Las Vegas
Natalie Cole and her seven-piece band arrived in London for her only UK performance this year, on a worldwide tour celebrating a lifetime in the music business that began at the age of six where she debuted on her father’s Christmas album.
What sort of venue could possibly be appropriate for the nine-time Grammy award-winning singer and daughter of the legendary Nat King Cole? We sent Lawrence to a roundabout at the southern end of Westminster Bridge to find out.