231-237 Cambridge Heath Road, E2 (020 7739 3122)
Bethnal Green tube. Performances 8.30pm Fri, Sat. Admission ?10; ?7 students, OAPs, ES40s. Credit MC, V.
Comedian Lee Hurst's purpose-built comedy club opened in a former dress
factory in Bethnal Green in September 1998. His industry clout and
avowed intention to treat comics with the respect they don't always
command in other clubs means that consistently excellent bills are the
norm. There's a disco after shows and a restaurant. New acts feature on
the last Thursday of the month.
One of Vienna's few remaining traditional city centre Beisls, the Kern has almost miraculously managed to pack up and transfer its cosy feel to a new premises in the Kleeblattgasse, just off Judenplatz. Beside mainstays such as braised liver and knuckle of pork, the Kern menu has long featured good vegetarian main courses and all the city's heavy-duty desserts. As in the past, a large section is set aside for non-smokers - a rarity in these parts.
Handcrafted furniture by New Mexico artists Larry and Nancy Buechley are featured during March and April. Their base is a woodwork studio in a beautiful hidden valley near Santa Fe. One-of-a-kind sculptural chairs, tables and benches are created with a technique known as bent lamination. It is done by sawing boards into thin strips and gluing them back together against curved forms. The result is graceful curving pieces without angular intersections.
A collaboration between dancer Muna Tseng and choreographer Ping Chong, 'Slut For Art' is a memorial to Tseng's late brother Kwong Chi, the 1980's underground art scene and to all the people claimed by the AIDS virus. A combination of dance and photography the piece is performed by Tseng while images from artists like Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Ann Magnuson flash behind her. The piece's provocative title is taken from a badge Tseng's brother (who worked with Keith Haring) wore in his acclaimed self-portrait series 'East Meets West'.
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