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Banksy Strikes Again
By Zoe Strimpel | Wed, 31 Oct 2007 at 5:03 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: And so today, amid the media storm, to visit the new work by the fly-by-night graffiti artist Banksy, on Pollard Row, a quiet street in London's Bethnal Green. Locals reported spotting the famously elusive "guerrilla" artist Sunday morning when the work ...

Hooked on More Than Sex
By Zoe Strimpel | Wed, 31 Oct 2007 at 1:02 AM | Permalink
Excerpt: These days in London there are lines around the block (or the museum lobby) for almost all of the major exhibits. Certainly Millais at the Tate and the Terracotta Army at the British Museum are deserving of their culturally conscientious droves. But one ...

The Joy of the Late-Night Kebab
By Zoe Strimpel | Tue, 30 Oct 2007 at 6:02 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: Monday was Republic Day in Turkey, therefore the obvious time to pay homage to that staple of the British diet, the "kebab," with a pilgrimage to either Green Lanes in Islington or Arcola Road in Hackney. Both are lined with Turkish restaurants, from ...

Sex, Lies, and Videotape
By Zoe Strimpel | Tue, 30 Oct 2007 at 3:25 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: The chairman of Christie's UK, Lord Linley (David Albert Charles Armstrong-Jones), who is 12th in line of succession to the throne, has been named in Australia and America as the disgraced victim of the British royal blackmail plot. But in England, where ...

A Different View of Israel
By Zoe Strimpel | Tue, 30 Oct 2007 at 1:08 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: Film festival or no, it takes a special movie to fill a cinema on a Saturday at noon sharp. That film, last weekend at the London Film Festival, was "Jellyfish" (Meduzot), an unusually hyped Israeli film by the husband and wife Etgar Keret and Shira ...

Major Bequest to the National Gallery and the Tate
By Zoe Strimpel | Mon, 29 Oct 2007 at 7:10 PM | Permalink
Excerpt: One of the biggest bequests of paintings ever to take place in Britain was announced Monday. The Honorable Simon Sainsbury (1930-2006), great-grandson of the Sainsbury's supermarket baron, left 18 paintings from his international and British art ...