Larry visits Le Caprice New York in the Pierre Hotel off Fifth Avenue, and orders a Shepherd’s Pie. Yes, you read that right. He travelled 3,400 miles across the Atlantic to order a British classic in a New York restaurant. He really did.
Fearful explorer and man-of-inaction Lawrence of Arb goes travelling closer to home and spends a night at the charismatic Fox & Anchor in Clerkenwell. Tankards of beer, baths in bedrooms; it was an experience to remember.
Over their customary post-performance pizza, Larry and Al Senter discuss the National Theatre’s Frankenstein, and Larry learns there’s more to this story than Hammer Horror…
Well, chaps, with the pressure off and Valentine’s safely out of the way, you can…
BBC4 is fast becoming my headline TV channel. As a mine for all things cultural,…
January: the month of return-to-work blues, the New Year detox, the attempt not to break…
There is an area in South East England that seems to have remained perennially in…
The Arb office is usually filled with a cacophony of industrious sounds; typewriters tapping, telephones ringing, faxes droning and kettles whistling. But a suspicious package one day brought a veil of silence upon us…
Mark Twain wrote: “Too much of anything is bad, but too much of a good whisky is barely enough.” So what happens when Larry, Jonesy and Stirling are invited to taste a 40-year-old vintage of which only 53 bottles exist worldwide?
When it comes to eateries, there’s been talk in the office of our diversifying of…
One doesn’t associate classical music with the traditional grass-and-mud rock festival. Surely the two sit at the opposite ends of the musical and cultural spectrum? Due to the efforts of some very clever people, that’s all about to change.
With The Hobbit about to grace our screens, Toby White muses on his encounter with Bilbo Baggins himself – the affable Martin Freeman – and reveals that sometimes reality can turn into an uncomfortable comedy…