About Hazel

Who doesn’t love the Antiques Roadshow? All those hopefuls bringing their beloved plates and porcelain figurines to be assessed, hoping that all those years of dusting Great Aunt Maud’s dancing frog doll will pay off when the kindly antique dealer cries out ‘bloody hell, that’s …

We all know the teeth-grinding, hair-pulling inconvenience of needing a ticket to board a bus then finding that the ticket machine has been vandalised and won’t dispense the expensive little slip of paper that the driver doesn’t look at anyway. A good citizen will cross …

Banner week for SFist as the site’s new editor introduced himself — hooray for Brock! While the NY Times weighed in on SF’s mayoral race, only SFist had the (insert tongue firmly into cheek) hard-hitting latest on candidate/activist Josh Wolf. Coverage of a protest vs. …

Imagine the tall pipes of a church organ. Imagine each pipe is made of glass. Imagine those pipes are not connected to a keyboard but freestanding, attached to slim white metal frames, originally intended for film or theatre lighting rigs. Imagine each of those glass …

We love London Lit Plus – it’s the capital’s independent festival as packed as any other London book-based love-in, such as the London Literature Festival. Sadly, all good things must come to an end and London Lit Plus is finishing its two weeks of literary …

It’s the Olympics! However, we are not referring to the vulgar splatter of neon colours and appalling lycra sportswear scheduled for 2012, we are instead referring to the good Olympics, the Olympics for proper gentlemen in proper sporting outfits made of tweed and real silk …

The binding properties of bacon grease have never been better emphasised than in Mem Morrison’s Leftovers. This performance is about cafes, performed in cafes, with cafe food for everybody. It is intimate, cosy; a cooked breakfast at 6pm, sitting elbow to elbow, bound together by …

Concerns about Olympic management require an ‘iron hand‘ Family planning doctor performs exorcism on patient – perhaps she had heard Voodoo Child one too many times? Couple jailed for claiming benefits for their dead son Five Labour councillors defect to the Tories days before by-election …

Westminster City Council is making a stand against free London newspapers London Lite (owned by Associated Newspapers) and The London Paper (owned by Rupert Murdoch) not because the City Council is tired of the two types of non-news offered in the many, many copies distributed …

It’s been a weekend of high sporting drama and noticeably less rain, but for drama of a smaller, more traditional scale, here’s a bit of old-school street theatre to start the week… Punch and Judy is unarguably formulaic and predictable – Punch will beat his …