WE LOVE LITTLE BOOTS
2009-01-12Little Boots playing ‘stuck on repeat’ (acoustic pyjama version)
www.littlebootsmusic.co.uk
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CHANEL SPRING/SUMMER 2009 GUITAR
2009-01-12Every season French luxury brand Chanel produce one item you would not usually expect to find from the ‘House of Chanel’. In recent seasons we have seen a bike, snowboard, skis and a fishing rod. For Spring/Summer 2009 they have once again made such an item – a guitar. Just like all the other items from previous seasons, the guitar comes in all black, with white accents, and is wrapped in a signature quilted white Chanel leather guitar bag.
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QATAR: ISLAND OF ISLAMIC ART
2009-01-12Rising like a giant Cubist sculpture from Qatar’s capital, Doha, the brand-new Museum of Islamic Art has got us pretty excited. I.M. Pei designed it and it takes shape of a 5-story domed atrium containing a rare-books library, a separate prayer halls for men and women, and over 700 works of Islamic art, spanning 3 continents and 13 centuries. Not only does it set our pulses racing with its daring design, it’s also a welcome cultural sanctuary in amongst the swathe of casinos and ostentatious hotels currently used to peddled tourism to the Persian Gulf.
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THE AEOLIANS ARE IN
2009-01-12Named after Aeolus, god of wind, Sicily’s Aeolian Islands are blessed with glowing azure seas, rugged grottoes, black sandy coves and laid-back locals. Sound good right? While you might not have heard of them yet, these remote shores are set to become 2009’s alternative island hideaway for a bit of barefoot glamour. There’s an island to suit your every mood: Sicily’s mysterious capital Palermo to intrigue you, the uber glam island of Panarea to indulge you, the green island of Salina to enchant you, and then there’s Stromboli… “the wild one”. It’s a fertile speck of an island emerging in a perfect triangle from the sea. Dominated by its huge volcano, known as “Iddu” (him), the trekking here is awesome. They say (half jokingly) that if you don’t climb the volcano, you won’t be invited back. ‘Strombolian eruptions’ have to be seen to be believed: florescent magma shoots up like fireworks every 15 minutes, accompanied by a heartstopping roar. Our tip? Head out in September for their international firedancing festival, the Teatro Del Fuoco (Theatre of Fire).
www.blacktomato.co.uk, or call 0207 610 9008 for more information.
