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Considerations Before Starting a Backyard Kitchen
The idea of a backyard kitchen may be appealing to you. There are many aspects of having this type of set up outside that are exciting. It is important that you consider some important points before you proceed. When it comes to outdoor space,
Ensemble Modern/Benjamin review – exhilarating, terrifying new music
Edgy and painfully urgent … George Benjamin conducts Ensemble Modern. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian George Benjamin’s pair of concerts with Ensemble Modern, presented under the auspices of the Wigmore Hall, were split between the hall itself and the Roundhouse. Both featured Benjamin’s own music.
‘It destroyed me, in a good way’: the best books about modern romance
The first time I read Carol Ann Duffy’s collection Rapture, I finished it, took a breath, and read it again. I had rarely encountered anything so raw and it contains some of my favourite poetry. It tells the story of an affair – a modern
Bingo for hipsters? The modern revival of a great British pastime
Dabbers Bingo in a nightclub-like black walled basement lit in neon. A DJ in a multicoloured lycra catsuit and sequin bomber jacket is bouncing around an east London basement to dancefloor classic D.I.S.C.O as beer-drinking young people wave their arms and chant along. Yet