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FACT
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- FACT
Lazy Cat expands in Riyadh with a second outpost
The new branch will be located at 1364 in the Diplomatic Quarter. Riyadh's café culture is having a moment, and one feline-inspired favourite is leading the charge. After winning over the city's foodies with its charming aesthetic and indulgent menu in Laysen Valley, Lazy Cat is expanding with a second Riyadh location opening soon in the Diplomatic Quarter. The new outpost will be situated in the stylish 1364 complex, a destination renowned for its upscale culinary scene and home to renowned chefs such as Akira Back and The Lighthouse. Soon, it will also welcome Cipriani Dolci, and Lazy Cat's arrival adds to the area's growing appeal. Having made its Saudi debut in Laysen Valley, Lazy Cat quickly carved out a niche with its creative menu and cosy ambience. Whether you're in for a leisurely breakfast, a satisfying lunch, or a sweet escape, signature dishes include the Avocado Folded Bread, Burrata Caprese Folded Bread, and the indulgent Truffle and Spicy Honey Calzone. Craving something heartier? Try the Pastrami Sandwich or the fan-favourite Lazy Burger. For the sweet-toothed, the café offers a lineup of desserts that could double as viral content. Think Cinnamon Roll Pancakes, Crème Brûlée Japanese Pancakes, and the cult-favourite Ahmed Al Zamel Cake that's all over your feed. Drinks are equally imaginative, with standout sips like the Tiramisu Latte and Blue Matcha. Founded in Kuwait and now with locations across the Gulf, Lazy Cat has built a loyal following thanks to its playful branding, consistently delicious menu, Instagrammable vibes and generous pricing. Opening details for the new Lazy Cat in Riyadh are still under wraps, but one thing's for sure—Lazy Cat's second home in Riyadh is set to become another hotspot. GO: Follow @eatlazycat on Instagram for more information.
Grazia USA
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Grazia USA
Unforgettable Bites: The Lighthouse Just Became Everyone's Go-To Spot For This Reason
Photo: @thelighthouse_ae Instagram There's an undeniable allure that The Lighthouse brings to the city. Between the laid-back charm and bursts of flavour, its title as the go-to is well-deserved – and for good reason. Since its launch in 2017, The Lighthouse has firmly established itself as a pioneer in Mediterranean cuisine, ushering a true breath of fresh air into the region's culinary landscape. With its signature soul, impeccable aesthetic and devotion to bespoke tastes, The Lighthouse's penchant for detail remains unmatched. And now, it's extending the same fervour and finesse beyond the borders of its kitchen. Naturally, The Lighthouse doesn't merely serve exquisite platters of food, with it comes a curated experience, one that lingers even after the last few bites. The Lighthouse's approach is quite simple: to turn every dish, flavour and bite into an unforgettable memory. Whether it's in intimate private gatherings with your closest circle, with colleagues or a major milestone birthday, every element is catered and designed with utmost detail and care. Photo: @thelighthouse_ae Instagram Always staying true to their values, they offer a one-of-a-kind catering and bar service where every menu is tailored according to your refined taste. From artfully plated hot or cold canapés, buffet-style spreads, or sharing platters to perhaps a full-course meal complete with their signature starters and mains ( the grilled ribeye is divine ). With their full service, you can surely expect nothing less than elegantly plated dishes. They even offer live food stations and bespoke beverage menus made by their master mixologists–a standard far beyond. Above all, what truly sets The Lighthouse apart is its speciality in the art of setting the tone, designing the ambience, and curating a fine celebration where every guest feels considered, and every detail is just absolute..
Harpers Bazaar Arabia
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Harpers Bazaar Arabia
The Lighthouse at Dubai Hills Unveils a Chic New Saturday Brunch
The Lighthouse's new Saturday brunch at Dubai Hills is serving up sun-drenched Mediterranean flavours, chic vibes, and weekend indulgence A breezy new brunch is lighting up weekends in Dubai Hills. The Lighthouse Restaurant & Bar, already a cult favourite for casual-chic dining and cultural flair, is launching a brand-new Saturday brunch that promises to be as stylish as it is satisfying. Nestled in the heart of Dubai Hills Business Park 2, The Lighthouse's latest offering is all about easy afternoons, Mediterranean flavours, and that golden Dubai glow. Guests can spend their Saturdays soaking in the warm ambiance from 12:30 PM to 4:00 PM, with a curated menu that makes lingering over lunch a delicious ritual. The brunch begins with a spread of sharing starters like fresh, bright dishes with a creative twist followed by a choice of mains like the indulgent black angus striploin steak frites with peppercorn sauce or a delicate harissa crusted seabass. There's even a truffle-infused salmon carpaccio for those with a taste for the finer things. Every dish is crafted with finesse, using high-quality ingredients that speak to the venue's culinary philosophy. It's no surprise that this new brunch feels so well-considered. Since its debut in Dubai Design District in 2017, The Lighthouse has built a name as more than just a dining destination. With roots inspired by the artistic legacy of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Set, it's a place where food, design, and thoughtful conversation come together. That same ethos flows through each of its locations from Yas Bay Waterfront in Abu Dhabi to its latest outpost in Dubai Hills. So whether you're gathering your brunch crew, celebrating something special, or just indulging in a weekend ritual, The Lighthouse's new Saturday affair offers a warm, sophisticated escape. Expect good music, even better company, and a menu that makes every bite feel like a little celebration.
The Guardian
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Poker Face, Another Simple Favor and Tina Fey's new show: what's new to streaming in Australia in May
TV, USA, 2025 – out now Sometimes we don't want high concepts and wow factor; we'll settle for a simple, thoughtfully told story with likeable and well-drawn characters. Going by the first two episodes of Four Seasons, that's definitely the case with this enjoyably staged dramedy (remaking Alan Alda's 1981 film of the same name) centred around three well-off married couples: Kate (Tina Fey) and Jack (Will Forte); Nick (Steve Carell) and Anne (Kenney-Silver); and Danny (Colman Domingo) and Claude (Marco Calvani). The primary source of dramatic tension in those early episodes involves Nick planning to divorce Anne, while, at the same time, she's planning a surprise vow renewal ceremony. Awkward. Film, USA, 2022 – out 7 May Robert Eggers has made a career of injecting fusty old narratives – about witches (The Witch), vampires (Nosferatu) and mermaids (The Lighthouse) – with new life and an uncynical appreciation of lore and legend. Taking on the Norse myth that inspired Shakespeare to write Hamlet, The Northman was an attempt, in the writer/director's own words, to make 'the definitive Viking movie'. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning This very trippy and violent revenge story follows Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård), a warrior determined to avenge his father and reclaim his kingdom. It's a stunningly realised work, visceral and lyrical. Film, Australia, 2024 – out 16 May As I wrote last year: 'Horror movies directed by Indigenous Australians are a largely rare category of cinema, immediately making Jon Bell's Stolen Generations-themed spook-fest The Moogai a work of cultural significance.' The film is a bumpy ride, far from the allegorical masterpiece many were hoping for, though it's still worth a watch, with plenty to contemplate afterwards. Shari Sebbens leads the cast as Sarah, an Aboriginal lawyer who gives birth to a second child and is haunted by the eponymous monster. Honourable mentions: Past Lives (film, out now), Cuckoo (film, 8 May), Nonnas (film, 9 May), Bet (TV, 15 May), Love, Death & Robots season 4 (TV, 15 May), Bet season 1 (TV, 15 May), Sirens (TV, 22 May), Fear Street: Prom Queen (film, 23 May), Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders (TV, out 26 May), Aunty Donna's Coffee Café (TV, 30 May). TV, USA, 2025 – out 8 May The 'howdunit' is a rare format (most memorably deployed in Columbo) whereby the audience witnesses a crime being committed, then watches the detective put the pieces together. The second season of Poker Face marks the return of Natasha Lyonne's irresistibly sassy Charlie Cale, a former casino employee pursued by murderous goons, who has a supernatural ability to tell when somebody's lying. The on-the-run premise enables a steady influx of new characters and settings. Season two begins with a fun story centred around sextuplets (all played by Cynthia Erivo), involving impersonations, inheritance and, of course, good ol' fashioned murder. Honourable mentions: Jojo Rabbit (film, 4 May), The Walking Dead: Dead City season two (TV, 5 May), Red Rocket (film, 6 May), Titanic (film, 17 May), Gnomeo & Juliet (film, 17 May), Borat (film, 24 May), Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (film, 24 May), Kevin Costner's The West (TV, 28 May), Behind the Candelabra (film, 29 May), Sing Sing (film, 31 May). TV, USA, 2025 – out 8 May The famous sleuth at 221B Baker Street continues to tossed and turned in the zeitgeist, every generation receiving new variations of Arthur Conan Doyle's iconic character. And it's not just Holmesy who's reinvented but also his colleagues and fam. This year has seen the arrival of the medical drama Watson, following Holmes' longtime assistant, and now a show introducing Amelia (Blu Hunt), a Native American woman who believes that Sherlock (David Thewlis) is her biological father. He's dismissive but, with Watson having disappeared, is in need of an assistant and, well, you know where this is going … Film, Japan, 2017 – out now This fiendishly inventive and super-meta Japanese horror flick begins with an audacious, unbroken 37-minute take, capturing what appears to be the production of a low-budget zombie movie that's interrupted by the arrival of actual zombies. Credits roll – and then we get to see what happened before the shoot and what really happened during it. A funny, shrewd, zany film. Honourable mentions: Gomorrah seasons one to five (TV, out now), Blood Diamond (film, out now), Contact (film, out now), Mars Attacks! (film, out now), Patrick (film, out now), Something's Gotta Give (film, out now), The Black Forest Murders (TV, 8 May), The Eurovision Song Contest 2025 (TV, 14-18 May), The Veil (TV, 27 May). TV, UK, 2025 – out now In my household, the arrival of a new season of this long-running British panel show is a big deal. I've not only exhausted every episode released in recent years but watched many twice. Predicated on guests relaying strange stories that may or may not be true, it's always laugh-out-loud funny, with hilarious, finely honed chemistry between the host, Rob Brydon, and the team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell. Honourable mentions: Bergerac season one (TV, 4 May), Return to Belsen (film, 5 May), The Kimberley (TV, 13 May), Gruen season 17 (TV, 14 May), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (film, 18 May), Picasso season one (TV, 26 May). TV, USA, 2025 – out 22 May Sign up to Saved for Later Catch up on the fun stuff with Guardian Australia's culture and lifestyle rundown of pop culture, trends and tips after newsletter promotion The first season of Nine Perfect Strangers played like Agatha Christie at a wellness resort, following a group of strangers carefully selected by Nicole Kidman's Masha – a mysterious Russian guru with cult leader vibes. Her methods are a mite unconventional, including secretly feeding her guests psychedelic substances. I found the whole thing deliciously entertaining and moreish, so I'm looking forward to the second season, which is based in the Austrian Alps. The official synopsis promises that nine new suckers, er, strangers, will be 'connected in ways they could never imagine' by old mate Masha, who'll 'try anything in the interest of healing everyone involved, including herself'. Film, USA, 2025 – out now Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively shared memorable chemistry as young mums and frenemies in Paul Weig's twisty, spritzy neo-noir A Simple Favor, which centres around the mysterious disappearance of Lively's charismatic and flighty Emily. The plot of the sequel has Kendrick's Stephanie (now a true crime author) and Emily (freshly released from prison) visiting the island of Capri, Italy, where murder and mayhem ensue. It reportedly delivers more absurd twists. While the Guardian's Adrian Horton says it 'does not match the intoxicating magic of the original' she also calls it 'confidently ridiculous' and 'stylishly absurd'. Honourable mentions: Misery (film, out now), Teen Wolf 1 and 2 (film, out now), The Birdcage (film, out now), Mad Max: Fury Road (film, 6 May), Octopus! (film, 8 May), Kraven the Hunter (film, 12 May), Overcompensating (TV, 15 May), Motorheads (TV, 20 May), Edge of Tomorrow (film, 20 May), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (film, 27 May), The Better Sister (TV, 29 May). TV, USA, 2025 – out 16 May Fans of Lost may be pleased to know that Duster reunites its co-creator JJ Abrams and star Josh Holloway. Pegged as 'a throwback to classic 70s crime shows', the series is set in the south-west of the US in 1971 and follows the FBI's first female Black agent (Rachel Hilsin) as she teams up with a getaway driver (Holloway) to combat a crime syndicate. The trailer features funkalicious clothes, skidding wheels and jivey tunes. Honourable mentions: The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (film, 3 May), Jay & Pamela (TV, 6 May), Pee-Wee as Himself (TV, 24 May), Rick and Morty season eight (TV, 26 May), And Just Like That … season three (TV, 30 May). TV, USA, 2025 – out 29 May Remember that period in your life when you were kind of OK with sharing a toothbrush with a friend? Adults, which was formerly titled Snowflakes, is about this time, following a group of twentysomethings in New York who do twentysomething stuff. The show's official synopsis claims it puts 'a slightly heightened twist on the wins, losses and humiliations of starting out in the adult world'. Honourable mentions: Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld (TV, 4 May), FX's Welcome to Wrexham season 4 (TV, 16 May), Tucci in Italy (TV, 19 May). TV, USA, 2025 – out 16 May The protagonist of this twisted sci-fi series based on Martha Wells' books The Murderbot Diaries is a bizarre creation: a robot (Alexander Skarsgård) that hacks its own firmware, enabling it to disobey instructions and do its own thing. Which sounds liberating but, if people realise this hunk of bolts has true autonomy, it'll almost certainly be destroyed. Murderbot must, therefore, hide its independence and suck it up, while protecting a group of hippy-ish scientists working on a planet where there are terrible insect-like monsters the size of cargo ships. I'm only two episodes in but, already, I'm pretty sure I've never encountered a character quite like this. Murderbot's personality is brought to life through excessively whiny voiceover narration, dropping a tonne of misanthropic lines – like 'Stupid fucking humans!' and 'These people, honestly!' Film, USA, 2024 – out 16 May The director of An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim, teams up with deaf actor and activist Nyle DiMarco for this documentary about a week of protests held at Gallaudet University – the world's only deaf university – 1988. They were triggered by four students responding to the university board's decision to select a hearing president, which the school had done for 124 years. The Hollywood Reporter calls it 'a fine entry' in the 'birth of a movement' genre, and Variety a 'propulsive nonfiction story' that 'feels as inspirational as any scripted feature'. Honourable mentions: Long Way Home (TV, 9 May), Fountain of Youth (film, 23 May), Bono: Stories of Surrender (film, 30 May). Film, Australia, 2025 – out 30 May I doubt anybody was champing at the bit for the cinematic return of Johnny 'Spit' Spitieri, the criminal and former heroin addict hilariously played by David Wenham in the 2003 Australian film Gettin' Square. But, gawd luv 'im, it's good to see the dodgy bugger back on screens in his very own spin-off feature. It's not an amazing movie but, as I wrote in my review, it's enjoyably low-key and occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, the plot revolving around Spitieri being arrested after trying to return to Australia. Goons want him gone forever; cops want his assistance; Spit just wants to do his own thing. Honourable mentions: The Trouble With Harry (film, 1 May), Beaches (film, 1 May), Ghost Cat Anzu (film, 5 May), Strife season two (TV, 8 May), Kraven the Hunter (film, 12 May), Saturday Night (film, 29 May).
Glasgow Times
27-04-2025
- Business
- Glasgow Times
Glasgow council issues update on Lighthouse and Kelvinhall
Councillor Susan Aitken advised members of the city administration committee (CAC) on Thursday morning that she was confident that the budget allocated from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) would lead to more investments for projects such as the Lighthouse and Kelvinhall. In January, it was agreed that out of the £2.7 million for Glasgow to invest in capital programmes, £150,000 should be used to support businesses through the Green Business Support Grant. During the meeting on Thursday, members agreed that £2 million of the funding would help repair the Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed Lighthouse sandstone building. The A-listed building, which is owned by the council, was initially constructed in 1895 as a warehouse for the Glasgow Herald. READ MORE: £5 cocktails are coming to Glasgow—here's where to find them It was later transformed into The Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design, and the city, with its launch in 1999 including a permanent Mackintosh exhibition but, in recent years, particularly post-Covid, it has largely fallen out of productive use. In February 2025, the council approved a lease to Sustainable Ventures, an organisation aiming to turn the building into a Net Zero Innovation Hub for start up firms working on climate technology. Meanwhile, the remaining £611,060 will be used to continue improvements on Kelvinhall, which has already benefited from the creation of a 'high-end' television studio. A substantial portion of the empty floorspace remains available at the venue, with the council receiving expressions of interest from commercial operators across multiple sectors to use this space. Councillor Bill Butler said that the Labour group welcomed the two funding options but asked if any others were taken into consideration. READ MORE: Legendary comedy club to move to new venue after 25 years Council leader Susan Aitken said: 'One of the things that is really clear about both of these investments is that they are not investments that will just stop once that money has been spent. 'There are very clear pathways with both of them and I think particularly with the Lighthouse and identified partners whereby the investment that we put in will lead to significantly more investment. 'This will lead towards not just a productive use but a highly valuable and beneficial use of both of these buildings. 'That is something we have been struggling to find with The Lighthouse for a very long time, particularly post-Covid, but really before that. 'The Lighthouse has never quite found the place that it needs to have. This partner has a plan which shows a very clear pathway to multiple benefits following on from this investment from UKSPF. 'In terms of Kelvinhall, we have already seen the impact of the investment and the work that has been undertaken there. It is such a huge building that there are even more opportunities to do more with Kelvinhall.'
