Karen from Will & Grace coming to the West End, you say? What are we going to wear?
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking now heaven knows… Kardashians getting their pudenda out for money and all sorts of carrying on. Makes you hanker for something a little, you know, less. And yet a little more. Which is where the hardy perennial Cole Porter musical Anything Goes written by PG Wodehouse comes in.
Come up and see some etchings
That Andy Warhol was a saucy so-and-so and never mind that whole little girl lost act. We’ve read the book and everything. And it was big.
Have a holly, jolly, dome-y Christmas
Christmas, which used to come every year, is playing silly buggers this time round.
Joni goes back to basics… and 1963
Gay Joni Mitchell fans are legion. Stands to reason.
Nice Helmut!
He’s the photographer who put the sex back into… well, everything really.
The Crown is back. And this time it’s a bitch-fest!
It might be the hardest bitch-face we’ve seen on our televisions since Alexis Colby Carrington had to take off an outsize 80s earring to make a call to Dominique Deveraux.
Major art booty at Buckingham Palace
One thing royalty are good at is collecting decent art, especially royalty of the British kind. Only Elton John comes close.
Have Her Majesty on your coffee table!
If there’s one thing HMTQ (Her Majesty The Queen, who else would it be?) is good at it’s having her photo taken.
A very Dolly Christmas, you say?
Dolly Parton. She’s like Marmite, that one. You either love her, or you spread her on a piece of toast.
Love & Dancing & Horse Meat & Disco
As if the four superstar gay DJs behind the Horse Meat Disco brand weren’t genius enough with their global gay disco that pops up in London, Berlin, New York, Lisbon and at The Downlow during Glastonbury, they have now become even more genius.
Oh, what a life!
So, it’s not a biography but it’s not NOT a biography either. Certainly not an autobiography, through the person in question reckons he could recognise himself, and it’s not really a novel. Or is it?
Almodóvar, Cocteau, Swinton, Balenciaga
No, it’s not a stream of consciousness of some of our top cultural icons, it’s edited highlights from the credits of The Human Voice, the film that’s looking like being one of the most interesting moments in the upcoming London Film Festival.
Grace Jones as you’ve always seen her before
Grace Jones making an exhibition of herself? Well, it wouldn’t be the first time only for once it’s someone else making an exhibition of Grace Jones. You know, just for a change.
A Japanese-Nordic lifestyle destination is opening in Mayfair and it looks helluva gorgeous
People throw hyphens around willy-nilly these days, but when we’re talking the fusion of Japanese and Nordic food, drink, art and design our ears are pricking right up.
The Mandrake’s launched a post-lockdown festival and it’s giving us all the feels
One of our favourite London hotels has launched an all-new, in-hotel festival aimed at the creative communities. Which is totally us.
A floating cinema, you say?
Have you been wondering how on earth you’re ever going to make it back to the cinemas when it means a) Having to sit in a near-empty room b) Having to wear a blunking face mask throughout the show? And c) and also maybe d)?
Ain't No Hairdo High Enough
Quite apart from anything else, this was to be the Summer of Ross. Glastonbury and a major tour, bringing the big dresses to the little people. Unfortunately, due to the lack of industrial strength wind machines, sorry, Covid-19, all Ross-related activity has had to be postponed... except for this little gem of remixed hits.
Costa del… Tottenham?
Now you have to quarantine to come back from the real Costas, may we intro-seduce you to Costa del Tottenham, which has been such a smash-hit success that they've already expanded so that you now have a Northside and, a few minutes away, a *checks notes* Southside!
Does anyone still wear a hat?
When it comes to Sondheim, there's no shortage of epic moments. Angela Lansbury singing The Worst Pies in London in Sweeney Todd; Dame Judi speak-singing her way through Send in the Clowns in A Little Night Music; and, of course, Elaine Stritch rasping that ode to lazy society bitches The Ladies Who Lunch
It’s disco, it’s Kylie… it’s Disco Kylie!
Whether you love her or love to laugh at her, a new Kylie album is always something to sit up and take notice of, especially as this time she’s been back down the disco mines