Gaming

Retro Game of the Week | Doom

Retro Game of the Week | Doom

Dust off your BFG 9000 – the 1993 classic shooter, id Software’s Doom, has returned to the Xbox Live Marketplace after two years in limbo (it was removed back in 2009 when id was taken over by ZeniMax). Time to kick Hell’s army and its hordes of demonic monsters from here to kingdom come. You can go classic campaign or opt for online deathmatch or team up with another trigger-happy psycho in co-op. A retro must for first-person shooter fans. Doom is available for download on Xbox Live Marketplace for 400 Microsoft points — about £3.50 in old money (marketplace.xbox.com)

Hotels

Where To Take Her | Saint James Paris

Where To Take Her | Saint James Paris

Part grand château, part private club, Saint James is housed up a candlelit driveway in the sleepy 16th. The recently renovated hotel breathes intimacy: low headcount, high panache.  [Read more...]

Culture

The Book | Naughty Little People Postcards

The Book | Naughty Little People Postcards

As the refined reader you are, it will not have escaped your notice that there’s been a bit of a recent trend for putting little model-railway figurines into still-life shoots. Need a picture of a hiking boot? Why not have little mountaineers ice-axing up the laces? Photographing spicy chicken wings? Simply add miniature firemen dowsing the plate. (Both of these actually exist, by the way, it’s not just our overactive imaginations.) Of course, like all popular ideas, at some point it was going to turn dirty. [Read more...]

Music

Track of the Day | “I Can’t Stay” by Ben Browning

Click to playTrack of the Day | “I Can’t Stay” by Ben Browning

Cut Copy bassist Ben Browning is embarking on a fresh solo project. His punchy debut, “I Can’t Stay” sees an appropriate dose of guitar injected into the Melbourne band’s synth-happy sound. Sure, this clip (which Browning directed) sits somewhere between “mildly eccentric” and “creepy grape fetish”, but sometimes when girls and fresh fruit are involved, you can look the other way. Ben Browning’s Lover Motion EP is out 19 March. (Words by Adam Baidawi)

Culture

Books | The Man With The Golden Arm

Books | The Man With The Golden Arm

Imagine that Apple designer, Jonathan Ive, had also directed the battle sequences in 300 and had built sculptures for the fourth plinth whilst overhauling the corporate identity of Vodaphone. A new monograph suggests that even this couldn’t hope to approximate Saul Bass’ seismic impact on twentieth century film & design.  [Read more...]

Culture

Reintroducing | Band Of Skulls

Reintroducing | Band Of Skulls

You’d think that a homegrown band who consistently deliver earthy, edgy, bluesy, rock ’n’ roll to rival The Dead Weather would be the toast of the nation. [Read more...]

Music,Style

Track of the Day | ‘Nowhere’ by Wild Nothing

Track of the Day | ‘Nowhere’ by Wild Nothing

Dream pop has its time and place: say, a slow Wednesday afternoon. (See where we’re going with this?) Wild Nothing’s homage to 80s haze stole ears and hearts in 2010 with debut Gemini. Latest offering “Nowhere” sees Jack Tatum take his one-man band into bigger, lusher territory. [Read more...]

Culture

Art | How to Confuse Your Friends

Art | How to Confuse Your Friends

Want to confuse your friends (and yourself)? Then take a look at the work of Jan Kriwol. The Polish photographer and digital artist released ‘paper realities’, a series of pictures that we’re still trying to figure out how he did it. Whatever it was, he must have spent a fortune on printer ink. www.kriwol.com [Read more...]