tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38088702009-12-18T01:23:14.019ZLondon-based British-born Chinese female, enjoys arts and culture joy riding, hitch hiking on the web and jumping on and off bandwagons.Hypatiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16319098247064658178noreply@blogger.comBlogger362125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808870.post-73133770249862249872009-11-05T10:40:00.006Z2009-11-05T10:50:08.229Z

ZZ Top Rocker Takes The TubeOriginally on Londonist here: I ponder the potential for tube-based adventures with Billy Gibbons of ZZ TopIf you're preparing to head home on the tube, be vigilant for the famous grizzled beard of Billy Gibbons, guitarist of the honourable rock band ZZ Top. He favours the tube over a fancy limo as demonstrated when he played Wembley last week, and took the

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Theatre: The Abattoir PagesOriginally on Londonist here: I write about a horror theatre thing that had great atmosphere and effect but an unappealing script and plot.You are invited to a secret party in the old abattoir by horror author Helen Mayer. You are called to the door. You are led into the dark. And you are kept there for the rest of the evening. The Abattoir Pages by Foolish People (

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Theatre: Tips For A Small Town AnywhereOriginally on Londonist here: I write about the amazing time I had at the latest Coney (Rabbit) adventure)So this is the play: A Small Town Anywhere. And this is how it works: A Small Town Anywhere. And that's almost all that we can tell you because this is such an extraordinary and unique theatrical experiment, anything we tell you about our own experience

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A Storm in a Bowl of Shark's Fin SoupOriginally on Londonist here: I write about the shark's fin soup controversy in London's top restaurants and introduce the melon alternative.Shark's fin soup: it's basically boiled cartilage. And this week, it is served with extra controversy, courtesy of a spat at The Dorchester Hotel's China Tang restaurant that serves this contentious concoction.

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The Happy on Hypatia Avenue No. 9: Boning a ChickenYes, that chicken has no bones! Yes, I boned a chicken! I totally boned a chicken and I was so damn proud of myself... it's not a task for the squeamish and should you wish to attempt it, I recommend sharpening your knife to 'scary' in order to get it done neater and with more panache than I managed. I took a quality chicken and started by

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Champagne Picnic On The Deck, National Theatre Originally on Londonist here: I sample an exclusive picnic and matinee deal on The Deck at the National TheatreIf you’re having a staycation and want to indulge this summer, or if you want to make a theatre trip extra special, this is an excellent offer. By 'this', we mean an exclusive champagne picnic on The Deck private function room atop the

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The Happy on Hypatia Avenue No. 8: Being a Girl and Owning Lots of Make-upIt's fun to be a girl, but it does seem to involve owning lots of non-essential stuff. I rarely wear make-up and yet... I have 15 lipsticks. They're all roughly the same colour. I'm not fussy about brands. I don't seem to discriminate between the types of lipstick either - pencils, traditional twist-up tubes, those

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Nature-ist: Featherstone Street Originally published on Londonist here: I share a scrap of urban gardening with the public. Londonist takes a walk on the wilder side... What is it?A bench. Some dusty planting. An attempt at a pergola and what can be kindly described as a Japanese influenced rocky corner. Some perky bright flowers. Not as much rubbish or dog poo as you might expect.Where

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Theatre Review: Pornography by Simon Stephens @ The TricycleOriginally on Londonist here: I share my view on the London premiere of Simon Stephen's play about the London bombings.Simon Stephen's Pornography at the Tricycle Theatre features pervasive and recurring irrational urban fury: sudden urges to stab strangers, hating fat people etc. Sean Holmes directs an extremely focused cast in this

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The Happy on Hypatia Avenue No. 6: Food Nobody Else LikesI've talked a lot about food one way or another in The Happy series and I have now come to what is a deeply personal and potentially highly controversial entry: the food I like that no one else likes.Growing up in a traditional Chinese household with non-English speaking parents and the patriarch coincidentally a chef by trade, I have had

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Operation Cockney Sparrow and the Parakeets of Kenley Originally on Londonist here: I share some overheard dialogue about the bird situation in two completely separate parts of London.Two pigeons, pecking around a copy of The Evening Standard outside Bethnal Green station Gordon: Sparrows. Loads of them. Taking all our bird feed. This is our borough. This is our place. Bloody cheek.Brenda: Says

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The Happy on Hypatia Avenue No. 5: Hitler Cat This cat prowls around our courtyard, along with Black Cat with Blue Collar, Big Angry Tortoiseshell Cat and Big Black Cat (no collar). We also have lots of birds pottering about in the courtyard, all of them enjoying the four sides of back gardens backing onto the space. I first spotted Hitler cat a few months ago and was so delighted with his

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Live Art Review: Plane Food Cafe @ Artsadmin Originally on Londonist here: I review a dinner lecture in a fake plane complete with aeroplane seats, stewardess trolleys and unpleasant super-heated pasta.Doors to manual... ...and the steel door of the shipping container in Toynbee Studios' courtyard rolled back. Ten bemused diners were ushered in to the cramped but admirably authentic aeroplane

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The Happy on Hypatia Avenue No. 4: Eclectic Saturday Morning ReadingFrom left to right, top row: Private Eye, The Big Issue, Grazia, Viz, G2Front row: One Eye Grey, Reader's Digest from January 2009 which I found in the office and was compelled to bring home for some insane, time-wasting reason.

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One and Other: I Stood On The Plinth And I Liked It On Sunday 23 August 2009, I was on the fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square as part of Anthony Gormley's One and Other installation. You can see the video of me enjoying my 8.00am hour-long slot here and read more about my choices for the special occasion in my profile on the page. There are also photos here. It was absolutely magical being up

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Bouncers for Boozy West End TheatresFirst published on www.londonist.comWest End theatres are employing security firms to keep control over rowdy audiences. Overdoing the pre-show and interval drinks, boisterous and obnoxious behaviour and Renaissance-era licentiousness in the stalls are causing great unhappiness to the actors and theatre staff. Getting sexy when the houselights go down,

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Dominoes 2009: Watch them fallDominoes 2009: a Station House Opera project for CREATE09 and we were part of it. This section was in Mile End Park and was the start of the 15km route; the dominoes eventually crossed the road, went into Matt's Gallery and out of a window, knocking the last domino into a waiting barge on the canal which then travelled to Island Gardens to start the next section.

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Theatre Review: A Lament For Medea @ The Arcola Theatre http://londonist.com/2009/07/theatre_review_a_lament_for_medea.phpThe squish of a sodden soft toy underfoot as we are led carefully into six inches of water in a darkened, flooded studio theatre encapsulates the uncomfortable and unnerving atmosphere of A Lament For Medea. This short (under an hour) performance is stiflingly intimate; the

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New Look, Same Stuff, More StuffLook! Look at my Twitter feed! (Simultaneously updated on Facebook!) Look at my Londonist articles! Look at my photos! Look at my videos! Look! Click! Look again!This is all rather exciting but I've had a long morning of html, xml, css and wtf with a small amount of ffs. Enough for now, I'll be back...

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Twittering, Blogging, Facebooking, Londonisting, EverythingAs usual, I'm everywhere at once and yet nowhere long enough to feel like I'm paying my fullest and most useful attention to the thing at hand. Instead of shedding things, I'm looking at ways to bring them all together and so work, think, dream and generally waste my time in a fabulous cross-platform manner. And here it is: my Twitter

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You Can Read The News Or Make The News... You Can't Do BothHello, it's me! I am alive, I am well, I am brimming with tales of adventures and activities that have kept me from adding to my series of The Happy on Hypatia Avenue and generally brain-dumping here. I think I'm spreading myself rather thin as I have recently discovered that Twitter and Facebook can actually be good for new friends and

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The Happy on Hypatia Avenue No. 3: Good Cookery BooksI have a big collection of cookery books and books about food. Each one fills me with joy and while Mr Hypatia Avenue can happily read thick tomes of non-fiction on political, social and economic history or collected essays by big hitters such as George Orwell and Gore Vidal (he's terribly clever), I can read a collection of Catalan cookery

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The Happy on Hypatia Avenue No. 2: The Good LifeNext in my series of The Happy is the beginning of The Good Life which started when I bought a tomato plant in July. I've never grown or kept plants before but had the urge to do so when we had some bright sunny days and our balcony was getting sunshine all afternoon and evening. So the tomato plants came home with me one weekend and then followed

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The Happy on Hypatia Avenue No. 1I don't write here very often any more, having spread myself rather thin with Londonist, resuming critical writing and a handful of other (offline) projects, but what I came to realise when I checked the last post I put here was that I'm not writing as much here because... because... because I'm having such a good time elsewhere. At the theatre, galleries, more

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"I'm currently out of the office. I will respond to your query on my return on 5th August."Meanwhile, here are some photos of what Hypatia did on her holidays. Food photography has been limited to 3 poorly lit pictures of an unusual square pizza as even the internet in its monstrous capacity to contain 99. 5 per cent of the world's inconsequential holiday photos cannot document all the was cooked

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