La Mina June 21, 2010
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Calle Obispo #109, entre Oficios y Mercaderes (620216)
Open 24hrs daily. Admission free.
La Mina has a restaurant and two cafés; waiters and bands are shared with Al Cappuccino next door. The patios, located on Plaza de Armas, are a great spot to relax and listen to live son until 11pm followed by boleros until the early hours. The downside is that they can be rather touristy, though. .
ROSE June 6, 2010
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The Low Down June 5, 2010
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Little gem about life and love and alienation and misspent youth set in south London.
Piano Night June 4, 2010
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The old rule about piano players rarely agreeing to play together only makes this annual piano-fest all the more special. Held the Monday between the two Jazz Fest weekends, it brings together the cream of New Orleans and New Orleans-influenced jazz pianists. Eddie Bo, Marcia Ball, Jon Cleary, Huey ‘Piano’ Smith and Joe Krown (the reigning jazz organist) are just the tip of this piano iceberg. Special guest is Hadda Brooks, the 84-year-old queen of boogie-woogie piano. The all-night party includes a barbecue and photography exhibition.
Pachica Café June 1, 2010
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The Pachuca Crew, long-time summer favourites on Venice’s Lido beach, enjoy a chilled out winter hibernation in Padova. Music is of the trip hop, Café del Mar and ambient flavour, and top DJ’s from across Italy make frequent appearances. There is no entry fee, but visitors must buy at least one drink to receive the all-important ‘Exit’ card. With food served into the early hours, Pachuca is the perfect place to come for a long, long night out.
Florence Nightingale Museum May 29, 2010
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St Thomas’s Hospital, 2 Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 (020 7620 0374)
Westminster tube/Waterloo tube/rail. Open 10am-5pm Mon-Fri (last entry 4pm); 11.30am-4.30pm Sat, Sun (last entry 3.30pm). Admission £4.80; £3.60 5s-15s, OAPs, students, ES40s; £10 family. Credit AmEx, MC, £TC, V.
Website: http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk
The world’s most famous nurse is celebrated in the well thought-out displays of this small museum, close to Westminster Bridge. Nightingale’s chief achievement in a long career of social campaigning was to establish nursing as a disciplined profession (indeed, åher lady and the lamp’ care in the Crimea was but a small part of her life’s contribution to medicine); and she set up the first nursing school at St Thomas’s in 1859.
Crutchmaster May 25, 2010
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Crutchmaster is the moniker used by performance artist Bill Shannon, whose conceptions of dance and spatial relationships have been informed by his work as a hip-hop artist and street performer. Crutch’s latest work is ‘Spatial Theory’, which will receive its’ DC première in this weekend set. Shannon use of crutches isn’t entirely a prop – he contracted Legg-Calf Perthese disease as a child and spent several years walking with them, which has deeply influenced his disjointed and awkwardly beautiful routines.
William Kentridge May 22, 2010
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William Kentridge is a South African artist who also designs theatre and opera productions and the ten animated short films and 70 figure drawings that make up this Hirshhorn exhibition all share the grand sweep of bigger productions, engaging the mind on multiple levels. Unflinchingly focusing on the politics of his homeland, Kentridge’s pieces are often disturbingly direct. There will be lots of them included in this sprawling show, which will occupy seven projection rooms and several galleries.
Bartow-Pell Mansion May 20, 2010
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895 Shore Rd at Pelham Bay Park (1-718-885-1461)
Subway: 6 to Pelham Bay Park, then one-mile walk or cab ride. Wed, Sat, Sun noon-4pm. $2.50, $1.25 concessions, under 12 free.
The International Garden Club has administered this 1836 mansion since 1914; the grounds include formal gardens, a fountain and a 19th-century carriage house and stable.
24 May 16, 2010
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This new Czech film takes on a favourite subject, how the roads and open spaces of Bohemia tend to become major characters in themselves, giving actors a run for their money. David Beranek’s feature follows a thief and a stripper on the run from the mob who are thrown together and forced to hit the road in the Czech Republic’s lyrically beautiful eastern province of Moravia. Heavily psychological and very atmospheric, the film is a study in mood, slow pacing and the search for meaning in an increasingly consumer-mad society. An intriguing and very non-commercial look from a fresh new ensemble, with English subtitles and selected cinemas.
