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Glass reviews Barbara Pyle’s photobook Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 1975

September 11, 2020

AS REEL Art Press releases a limited, numbered, signed poster of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band from their first-ever passport photo sessions, 45 years after the release of Born to Run, we take another...

Glass talks to leading British actor Rebecca Hall about accents and the power of acting

Arjun Sajip

November 15, 2019

Culture, Feature

GLASS battled a five-hour time difference and a telephone delay to grab half an hour with actor, Rebecca Hall. Born in London in 1982, she made her first professional appearance at the age of ten in The Ca...

Glass explores the lesser-known highlights of Emilia Romagna, Italy’s foodie capital

Arjun Sajip

September 10, 2018

Feature, Food & Drink, Italy, Travel

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Emilian reasons to visit – Glass explores the lesser-known highlights of Emilia Romagna, Italy's foodie capital The Palazzo della Pilotta in Parma. NONE of us felt much inclined to speak. Having spent hours ...

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Exclusive – Monica Bellucci tells Glass how she leads her life through her work

Arjun Sajip

June 22, 2018

Culture, Feature

Beautiful choices – Monica Bellucci tells Glass how she leads her life through her work Glass was delighted to talk to Italian actress and model Monica Bellucci in Paris to discover more about her ...

Just fodder love of it – Glass checks out the Borough restaurant’s latest pop-up

Arjun Sajip

May 23, 2018

Dining, Feature, Food & Drink

“FINE dining gone wild” is the tagline of Great Guns Social’s latest culinary pop-up, fodder, the latest sign of the restaurant’s commitment to showcasing a variety of cuisines through its rotating residencies....

A Pop from the Past at Aqua Shard – Glass samples a new cocktail range

Arjun Sajip

March 21, 2018

Drinks, Feature, Food & Drink

FROM the 31st floor of the Shard, where London Bridge station looks like an ever-pulsing muscle pumping passengers in and out of the City, and where you are looking down at even the fanciest hotels around, Lond...

Go Zen – Glass delves into fine Japanese cuisine at Aqua Kyoto

Arjun Sajip

March 15, 2018

Dining, Feature, Food & Drink

A FEW floors above the bustle of Regent Street, you’ll find a Japanese haven precisely designed for convivial fine dining. Aqua Kyoto – part of the Aqua Restaurant Group, whose other London venues include Huton...

Brrrr! Glass chills out at the Eis Haus ice-bar, London Bridge City

Arjun Sajip

December 6, 2017

Design, Food & Drink, News

The new ice-bar pop-up at London Bridge City is a pretty cool affair FOR those of you who aren’t quite cold enough, London Bridge City – on the south bank of the Thames, between HMS Belfast and City Hall – h...

The Chef and the Mixologist – Glass reviews Great Guns Social, Southwark’s latest food-and-cocktails venue

Arjun Sajip

October 24, 2017

Dining, Drinks, Feature, Food & Drink

ONE is tempted to wonder how intense the rivalry is between Khalid Dahbi and Ash Lambert, the chef and the mixologist that propel Great Guns Social from being a dimly lit gastropub to being an assault on the ta...

Glass spends a magical weekend in Carcassonne, France

Arjun Sajip

August 30, 2017

Europe, Feature, France, Travel

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A view of the Cité. Photograph: ADT–Aude IT TAKES about 90 seconds to walk from one end of Carcassonne Airport to the other. Barely two storeys high, it might be one of the smallest public airports you’ll ev...

Glass reviews Austrian documentary In The Basement

Arjun Sajip

January 23, 2017

Cinema, Culture, Feature, Film

IT’S rare to see a movie in a London cinema and feel you’re actively bonding with the rest of the audience, but Ulrich Seidl’s 2014 documentary Im Keller (In the Basement) has exactly this effect. In its pertur...

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Great Scott – Glass steals some time with British acting prodigy Scott Chambers

Arjun Sajip

July 12, 2016

Feature, Film

SCOTT Chambers’ star is in the ascendant. This year his performance in Joe Stephenson’s Chicken was praised by Sir Ian McKellen as “astonishing, intriguing, enchanting, moving”. A fan of horror films, he set hi...

Nobody puts Bebe in a corner – Glass meets the delightful actor, Bebe Cave

Arjun Sajip

July 5, 2016

Feature, Film

ABOUT three days before the UK was rocked by the referendum result, Glass got to meet Bebe Cave, who impressed us in her latest film Tale of Tales, as well as having starred opposite Helen Mirren at the age of ...

Glass reviews Tropicália legends Caetano Veloso & Gilberto Gil at the Barbican

Arjun Sajip

May 17, 2016

Culture, Feature, Glass LIVE, Music

THE MAGIC of Tropicália is simply put: when you listen to it done well, you are convinced no greater music exists in this or any world. It combines the camaraderie, melodic facility and harmonic sophistication ...

Glass reviews Shan Nicholson’s documentary Rubble Kings

Arjun Sajip

February 16, 2016

Cinema, Culture, Feature, Film

The main problem with Rubble Kings is its length. It is 67 minutes which is an odd duration – marginally too long for a TV screening (you’d need 25 minutes of ads to fill a 90-minute slot), but too short for a ...

Glass reviews the film Youth

Arjun Sajip

February 5, 2016

Feature, Film

Something must have been lost in translation – how else can Youth be so bad when La Grande Bellezza was so good? Can the artificial beauty of the latter have lapsed so suddenly into prettified artifice? Why has...

Five-and-a-half questions for singer-songwriter-producer Matthew E White

Arjun Sajip

January 28, 2016

Feature, Music

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Currently on a world tour, the Richmond, Virginia native Matthew E White was in a philosophical mood when he spoke to Glass recently. His debut album Big Inner (yes, pun intended) debuted in the Top 20 on Billb...

Glass reviews jazz double-bassist Dave Holland at Wigmore Hall

Arjun Sajip

December 15, 2015

Feature, Music

In the 60 or so seconds between the announcer disappearing and Dave Holland strolling onto the stage, the crowd grows increasingly impatient. A single cough encourages an army of apparent asthmatics to clear th...

Glass reviews Hiromi at the Southbank Centre

Arjun Sajip

December 14, 2015

Feature, Glass LIVE, Music

Never before have I attended a concert of two such distinct halves. Before the intermission, the unsavoury, almost relentlessly tasteless fusion jazz gradually begins giving way to more subdued sounds; but afte...

An evening with Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn at the South Bank

Arjun Sajip

November 25, 2015

Culture, Feature, Glass LIVE, Music

Glass heads to the Southbank Centre to see the couple’s banjo magic She hails from North Carolina, and her name’s Becca Stevens. She’s the support act for virtuosic husband-and-wife duo Béla Fleck and Abigail ...

Interview with honorary Clash member and musician Tymon Dogg

Arjun Sajip

November 4, 2015

Feature, Music

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Glass felt very lucky to secure an exclusive interview with Tymon Dogg, best known for his unforgettable contribution to the Clash’s unforgettable Sandinista! album, Lose This Skin. Proficient on piano, guitar ...

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