Culture

Revolutionary iPhone app delivers best of London culture

As part of The Smirnoff Co.’s ongoing commitment to support original experiences, it has announced a collaboration with Time Out, to launch the Smirnoff & Time Out iPhone app on 14th December 2009*. The app features up-to-the-minute Time Out content on one-of-a-kind events and experiences in London, including the best nightlife, culture and eating out as picked by Time Out’s expert team of editors.

Madrid plays host to major art exhibition

From 14 January to 22 April 2010 Fundación Mapfre, Madrid, will present a major free exhibition, including more than ninety paintings from the Musée D’Orsay in Paris, which will show Impressionism in a startling new light.

Henry VIII: Man and Monarch at the Mary Rose Museum

The British Library’s major exhibition on Henry VIII will be touring to the Mary Rose Museum at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard from 12th December – 17th January, celebrating 500 years since his accession to the throne and of course 500 years since the commissioning of the Mary Rose!

Radio 2 heralds a new dawn for the New Year

BBC Radio 2 has announced a transformation of the morning schedule to take effect from Monday 11 January 2010.

Drinkable installation to open in London this month

The Emperor’s Shrub has been chosen as the punch that fills the Courvoisier Architectural Punch Bowl, a drinkable installation so large you can boat across it. Alex James will be among the first to toast this incredible feat of engineering and raise the first glass of this bespoke Courvoisier punch.

Want to know if you have swine flu or if Lady Gaga is really a man? Just Ask Jeeves

Lady Gaga is top 5 in the charts again – but this time it’s because internet users want to know if she is really a man! The flamboyant pop singer’s habit of constantly wearing dark sunglasses and wacky outfits has sparked internet rumours that she may really be a ‘he’.

Ghostly Grizedale exhibition extended into the new year

A striking art exhibition on the Forestry Commission estate at Grizedale Forest in the Lake District has proved so popular that it has now been extended until Sunday 17 January.

BBC Radio 2 to commemorate Elvis's 75th birthday

BBC Radio 2 marks what would have been Elvis Presley's 75th birthday with a season of revelatory documentaries, from 26 December 2009-8 January 2010. Including programmes presented by Suzi Quatro, Jerry Hall and Rob Brydon, the season encompasses everything about "the King of Rock 'n' Roll", the music, the films, the brand and his personal life.

Is there still a stigma attached to HIV in the UK today?

When we think of AIDS, many of us will automatically think of Africa. Yet HIV is still the fastest growing serious health condition here in the UK. There are over 80,000 people living with HIV across Britain and the number of new infections continues to rise each year.

Music legends grace the cover of December’s special edition Q Magazine

The December issue of Q Magazine is an ‘Artists Of The Century’ special edition, covering all of the acts that the fine staff of the good ship Q feel are the most important of the century so far. As befitting a special edition of the UK best selling music monthly requires a special cover was commissioned world renowned photographer John Wright has spent over a year shooting 34 artists to fit on triple fold out cover.

A really rubbish Orchestra heads for London

Ever wonder what happened to your old toaster that finally kicked the bucket, or the kettle that got replaced, or even your outdated corded telephone? If you were told that they were now starring in a free concert in Covent Garden in December, would you think you’d gone crazy?

BBC’s Child Of Our Time launches ambitious online project

BBC One's landmark series, Child Of Our Time, is inviting the British public to take part in a ground-breaking online scientific study that hopes to discover how important our personalities are in shaping the direction of our lives. Do our personalities shape our lives?