Operated as an adjunct to the University District’s Mediterranean Café, the Hookah Lounge has rapidly become one of Las Vegas’s hippest nightspots. Decorated in traditional Middle Eastern style with soft velvets and luxurious seating, the Lounge accents its ambience with recorded music from the world’s top DJs. There is a menu of mezza favourites (hummus, baba ghannoug) and specialty bar and coffee drinks, but the main attractions are the authentic, coal-fired hookahs. Select your tobacco from the many fruit, floral, or traditional blends, and settle back with friends as the hookah master sets the flavour bubbling.
Treasures of Russian Orthodox Culture and Art
December 30, 2009 at 6:23 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: art, culture, orthodox, russian, treasures
As part of the Orthodox Church’s celebrations of the 2000th birthday of Jesus Christ, the Historical Museum has put on a broad exhibition and celebration of Russian Orthodox culture and art. Exhibits range from the 10th to the 20th century and include manuscripts, icons, embroideries and jewellery from the collections of the State Historical Museum, as well as museums of Vladimir, Suzdal, Murom, Novgorod and Rostov Veliky.
In Line With Al Hirschfeld: An Al Hirschfeld Retrospective
December 28, 2009 at 2:02 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: al, hirschfeld:, line, retrospective
‘In Line With Al Hirschfeld’ portrays a unique take on history of the performing arts in the 20th-century. Perhaps best known for his caricatures of Broadway socialites, the broad strokes and sly humour of Al Hirschfeld’s classic line drawings have graced ‘The New Yorker’, ‘The New York Times’ and ‘Rolling Stone’. This retrospective examines his influences, his iconography and his techniques from his earliest works at age 11 to his most recent New York Times’ drawings.
Roma Felix
December 27, 2009 at 6:29 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: domestic, felix, hotels, roma
The Eternal City abounds with moggy life, especially in and around the centro storico. Now the city’s Archaeological Department has joined up with local cat associations to offer a unique guide to the glory that was Rome. The project’s title – ‘Discovering the Famous Archaeological Sites Where Emperors Ruled and Now Cats Reign’ – says it all. Three famous feline hangouts are open to the public for special tours of both monuments and cats: Trajan’s Markets, the Pyramid of Cestius and Largo Argentina. Tours are in Italian and English.
Felpeyu
December 25, 2009 at 4:19 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: felpeyu, flights, holiday, travel
This asturian folk band from Spain seems to have collected quite a local following as this gig is just one of dozens Felpeyu have in their current Australian tour. The members come from varied backgrounds including rock and pop bands although none of those subversive influences seep into their music now. What you get are pipes, box accordions, bouzoukis, mandolins, fiddles, boudrans and percussion as the seven players energetically explore traditional asturian and some Castilian tunes.
Il Cantuccio
December 19, 2009 at 2:02 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: cantuccio, il, trip
‘Cantuccio’ is the local word for ‘biscotti di Prato’, the hard, almond biscuits that are traditionally dipped in Vin Santo. It is also the name of a tiny new shop in the Santo Spirito district of Florence. A stone’s thrown from the famous piazza, the shop specialises in all sorts of carefully-sourced biscuits, cakes, jams, chocolate, dessert wines and speciality coffees and teas. Excellent for an unusual present or plain self-indulgence.
KD Matheson: Totems
December 17, 2009 at 2:00 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: kd, matheson:, totems
Jet-setters arriving in Las Vegas will immediately be assaulted by Vegas Culture in the airport, both the obvious (fruit machines) and the unexpected (home-grown art exhibitions). This month, Vegas native KD Matheson displays some of his most profound and inspiring work – a primal gathering of dream-inspired totems, masks, prayer figures, vases and other magical creatures neatly representative of an ephemeral desert culture. Composed of a variety of clay, cement and other earthly materials, Matheson’s works may be the first to truly define a Las Vegas art style that escapes the hackneyed ‘southwestern’ schlock.
Electric Bogey
December 13, 2009 at 5:44 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: bogey, electric, hotels, travel, trip
The Jengaheads’ break and beat showcase seems to be going from strength to strength, and their latest guest should keep up the momentum. Adam Freeland welds together corking sets of chrome-plated futuristic breakbeats using just three decks, a sampler, banks of effects machinery and his bare hands.
