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Art Overdose: Frieze London

Continuing in the vein of what had been an art-filled two weeks, from ArtVerona in Italy, to the Phillips auction in London, to an evening performance art piece at the Freud Museum, my capacity for art finally climaxed with one of the most important art events in the world, along with the Venice Biennale, Art Basel, and […]

Celebrating the Notting Hill Carnival in London

The Notting Hill Carnival is a yearly celebration of Caribbean culture marking the end of summer, held every last Sunday and Monday of August. It was started in the 1960s, back when Notting Hill consisted not of its present stately Victorian townhouses, tree-lined streets, and carefully manicured private parks but of a diverse and colourful […]

The Box in London

It was inevitable – Outside The Box Travel had to venture to The Box at one point or another. But don’t be fooled by the name, The Box is definitely an outside-the-box nightlife venue. When people ask me to describe The Box, I usually sum it up as a nightclub with an erotic burlesque cabaret […]