http://www.themonobrow.com/ The Monobrow is a daily web digest for people who want to waste time on the internet without feeling like they are wasting time en-gb Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:16:32 GMT 5 http://www.themonobrow.com/ar.php?id=370 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:16:20 GMT When I first read the news that London's Medicine Bar was about to undergo an expensive refit to emerge as new rebranded London nightspot East Village, I was dubious to say the least. As the name might suggest, the inspiration for London's newest venue is New York's East Village area, which as a concept for a London-based nightspot seems bizarre - and ever so slightly theme pub-esque. Surely you a... (gemma sheppard) http://www.themonobrow.com/ar.php?id=369 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:38:37 GMT After decades teaching the nation how to cook, first lady of Norfolk Delia Smith seemed to be heading into a very comfortable retirement focused far more on football than flour. In the new millenium the modern breed of celebrity chef which has stepped up cuts an altogether more dashing figure next to Delia's rather worthy home economics textbooks for grown-ups. But who could have predicted what a ... (gemma sheppard) http://www.themonobrow.com/ar.php?id=368 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:07:21 GMT The twin stars of electronica and art rock move into alignment this Friday 15th February to mark the onset of An Electric Storm, an unlikely but rather pleasing meeting of the minds at Elephant & Castle's Corsica Studios.The now Chris-less Clark will be back on home turf and turning dragon for the evening: I am expecting a po-faced set of joyless, ugly hard techno aimed squarely at the males i... (gemma sheppard) http://www.themonobrow.com/ar.php?id=367 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:44:58 GMT It is the end of an era: Scala stalwart club night Popstarz is currently gearing up for the big move to new home Sin on Charing Cross Road, where normal service will resume on February 8th. The countdown clock currently shows just three more chances to relive all of your Scala memories before the dawn of a new age of Popstarz in the West End.London's biggest gay alternative night is now over a dec... (gemma sheppard) http://www.themonobrow.com/ar.php?id=366 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:12:43 GMT We all love the smell of free music in the morning. But preferably free music that someone else has already had to pay for somewhere along the way. Like the never-ending sale, music which has always been available for free just doesn't seem worth the bandwidth it is downloaded on... (gemma sheppard) http://www.themonobrow.com/ar.php?id=365 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:18:04 GMT Some valiant attempts have been made by Ebay sellers to flog their own handmade wares (the knitted food search has proved particularly fruitful in this respect). But since the Ebay search model is based around the assumption that you already know what you are looking for, goodness knows how many potential desirables remain undiscovered amongst the deluge.Enter handcrafted haven Etsy, with its mult... (gemma sheppard) http://www.themonobrow.com/ar.php?id=364 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:38:36 GMT Summer is now a distant memory (if indeed this year's effort even counts as a summer), and so too is the annual Cologne Summer Tunes homecoming party thrown by the Karmarouge team. But that doesn't mean that your chance to download the free Ton sur Ton Vol.II mp3 compilation released to commemorate the occasion has also passed - so get downloading from the mini-site while you still can...Following... (gemma sheppard) http://www.themonobrow.com/ar.php?id=363 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:47:20 GMT There was a time when Germany was about as uncool as it was possible to be. A mixture of national stereotypes, sporting rivalries and our own Second World War superiority complex placed the poor old Germans at the sharp end of our jokes throughout the entire second half of the twentieth century, as a 2003 campaign by their own Goethe Institute pointed out. Just one decade ago, my decision to study... (gemma sheppard) http://www.themonobrow.com/ar.php?id=362 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:10:29 GMT The rowdily titled new album Oi oi oi from Boys Noize hits the streets at the beginning of October, but if you think you have seen the cover somewhere before, that may well be because it bears more than a passing resemblance to the OTT blingtastic $100 million diamond encrusted skull unveiled by Damian Hirst earlier this year. But as the old chicken and egg adage goes, which came first, the diamon... (gemma sheppard) http://www.themonobrow.com/ar.php?id=361 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:59:32 GMT Where I grew up, "chav" (or more precisely, "chava") was just another word for man, or guy, used more or less interchangeably with the less well-known "gadgie". So imagine my surprise when the term chav started to creep into the lexicon of the mainstream media: only now it is being used in an altogether less neutral way, to simultaneously denote and denigrate a specific social group.So what does t... (gemma sheppard)