Fabriano
For centuries Fabriano has been associated with the production of quality paper and artists' materials. Now a whole new range of Fabriano goods is available at this impressive, city-centre outlet. It offers not just sketch pads and stationery, but extremely slick diaries, address books (including a handy version for email addresses), inks of every hue, pens, pencils and linen bags. There are even a few special, multi-coloured paper-based gifts for kids.
Cheetah
12 W 21st St between Fifth and Sixth Aves (212-206-7770)
Subway: F, N, R to 23rd St. Hours vary with event.
While drink prices are outrageous and the crowd can tend toward model-worshippers and Eurotrash, the cheetah-print booths and indoor waterfall are fun. Purr, a hip-hop/R&B/classics party on Monday, is popular for its attractive, racially mixed crowd of trendy downtown heteros on the make. Plenty of models and celebs, too. Other nights, resident DJ Nelson 'That Boy' Diaz is worth checking out for his masterful blending of salsa, merengue, house, disco, hip-hop and more.
Elena Bashkirova & Liszt Chamber Orchestra
Originally trained in the classical Soviet style, world famous piano soloist Elena Bashkirova has gone on to develop a more personal, understated style. Directed by Janos Rolla with the Ferenc Liszt Chamber Orchestra, she will be performing Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony, Op. 110 and his Piano Concerto, Op. 35 and Mozart's Piano Concerto in F Major and symphony in G-Minor.
The Offspring
The Offspring are the latest California punk rockers to visit Lisbon. Offensive to many punks for their very inoffensiveness, the band have been accused of going mainstream since they signed to Columbia in 1996. Fans will hear none of it, but the truth is that if they weren't steering just a wee bit towards the middle of the road, they wouldn't get to play a venue like this huge sports-cum-concert hall.
Rose Theatre
56 Park Street, SE1 (020 7593 0026)
London Bridge or Cannon Street tube/rail. Open 10am-5pm daily (last entry 4.30pm). Admission £3; £2 5s-15s; £2.50 students, OAPs, disabled. Credit MC, V.
Website: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/rose
The remains of the sixteenth-century Rose, the first of four playhouses to be built at Bankside, were rediscovered in 1989 during excavations on a site where new office buildings were due to be erected. The extensive remnants, some two-thirds of the original site, would have been built over were it not for the campaigning of a group of actors, scholars and ordinary theatre-loving punters. Currently there's a sound and light exhibition, with a video narrated by Sir Ian McKellan, aimed at raising awareness of the Rose. In the longer term, the Rose Theatre Trust wants to see the site fully excavated (during which time the public can watch the archaeologists at work) and open to all - this is pending further funding being raised.
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