Summer skills

Summer survival skills No 3 – rules to watch girls by

Summer survival skills No 3 – rules to watch girls by

It’s hot. They’re showing more flesh. You’ve got eyes. It’s going to happen, so don’t feel bad. In fact, why not enjoy it? It’s only a problem if you disobey these rules:

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Food & Drink

The heatwave-friendly cocktail

The heatwave-friendly cocktail

Name: Berryoska Strawberry
Ingredients: 50ml Russian Standard Original, 4 to 6 strawberries, juice of half a lime, 3tsp sugar, crushed ice
Method: In a tumbler, muddle the lime juice, sugar and strawberries to create a paste. Top the glass up with crushed ice. Add Russian Standard Vodka and stir well. Top with extra crushed ice and garnish with a sliced strawberry.

Design,Travel

The W factor

The W factor

The W hotel group makes its first foray in Western Europe this autumn with this seriously ambitious 26-storey sail-shaped skyscraper on the Barcelona coastline. [Read more...]

Top Fives,Women we love

Top five Seventies pin-ups

Top five Seventies pin-ups

The death of Michael Jackson rather overshadowed the loss of another star who had a huge influence on our formative years. So, in tribute to the late, great and stupendously sexy Farrah Fawcett, we present our top five Seventies pin-ups: [Read more...]

Style,Summer skills

Summer survival skills No 2 – how to wear shorts

Summer survival skills No 2 – how to wear shorts

Wearing shorts is easy. Wearing shorts well, however, is a surprisingly hard thing to get right. We think it pays to lay down some ground rules: [Read more...]

DVD

Clint Eastwood’s gran finale?

Clint Eastwood’s gran finale?

If you missed it first time round, Gran Torino is released today on DVD. Billed on its cinema release as Clint’s last ever acting appearance, it’s an appropriate swansong that seems to touch on all facets of his 50 year career in front of the camera – a style that Jonathan Ross described in our April issue as ”seems to be doing very little when he’s actually doing a lot, and that’s just as true of his directing”. Judging by this exclusive clip from the DVD extras though, maybe the man himself might still be open to the right kind of offers. He’s only 79 after all.

Restaurants

A good mess to be in

A good mess to be in

Aside from The Botanist, there’s a dearth of decent lunch places around Chelsea, so we were pleased to find that The Mess – formerly the old Duke of York’s officers’ mess, now the eatery attached to the new Saatchi gallery – is a stylish little spot serving up good British food (pea soup, asparagus, grilled chicken, seafood pasta and the like). [Read more...]

Technology

Drop it like it’s hot

Drop it like it’s hot

Few mobile phones can claim to function after being submerged underwater for half an hour, dropped on to concrete from 2 metres or being exposed to -20ºC. But like the legendary offroader it’s been allied with, the robust Sonim S1 Land Rover phone is built with the outdoors in mind. And if you’re not a full-time explorer, it will eat up most cases of DPD (Drunken Phone-Dropping) and HBS (Hot Beverage Spills). £296