best of 2013 by rachel evans & steve dore

The Fat White Family - Live and on record.

The Temples of Tokyo.

The existence of Lamingtons as a food source.

Flappers - Six Women Of A Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell.

Craft Coffee Shop - 68 Sclater Street, Shoreditch, London.

The Poetry of John Keats and Charles Baudelaire - Sounds poncey, not meant to, POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE.

Eating Vietnamese baguettes outside St Bartholomew the Great, Farringdon.

Sherlock on BBC1.... Cumberbatch fever.

The Lady Vanishes ( original version) at the Brixton Ritzy.

Alpha Papa.

Greenwich Planetarium.

Lew Griffin books by James Sallis.

Lee's Bonfire Night Party in Lewes.

TV - Toast of London.

Japanese Outsider Art at the Wellcome Collection, London.

Mathew Sawyer's barbecues.

Healthy Eaters Shop in Brixton.

Uniqlo boy short knickers.

Bert Bacharach live at the South Bank.

Diana Vreeland  - The eye has to travel documentary.

Finding Vivian Maier documentary.

The Sleaford Mods - Austerity Dogs.

Best of 2011 by Steve Dore

Here are my highlights of the year, in no particular order.
 
Kayaking into Buzzard's Bay and "discovering" and hanging around my own tiny island. Sadly I had no flag on me at the time.
 
Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, Conversations book: The inspired curmudgeon speaks....a lot.
 
The Wallace Collection
 
Alvarius B. Baroque Primitiva LP- This also gets my vote for best record cover of the year.
 
Eric Copeland "U.F.O.'s Over Vampire City"- Heard this on the radio when I was chopping onions. Top tune!
 
Mike Kelley's Exploded Fortress of Solitude exhibition at Gagosian Gallery
 
The Age of Absurdity by Mike Foley. Wise and funny, what more do you want?
 
Seeing my old friend Kevin Noonan in Brooklyn after not seeing each other for 13 years was the highlight of my year.

Best of 2008: by Rachel Evans and Steve Dore

1.West Norwood Library
2. Sphixes of Crystal Palace
3. Leonard Cohen at the O2 (including boatride)
4. Sic Alps - U.S E.Z
5. Bookseller Crow
6. Stylophones
7. Do It - Clinic
8. American Apparel Bras
9. Cold War Modern 1945-1970 Exhibition at the V&A
10. Comet Gain playing at the Blue Last, London
11. The writings of Elaine Dundy
12. Will Bouton's Pagan Wedding
13. Saul Steinburg Exhibition
14. New Leaf, the movie
15. Benito's Hat Restaurant
16. Aspnall cider
17. The writing of Robert Walser
18. The Wire - Season 5
19. Paris Review Interviews - Volume 1
20. Jigsaw - The Movie
21. Amsterdam
22. The End of Capitalism ( hopefully)
23. The brillance of Oyster cards, London Buses and the Underground system.
24. The Angel Pub
25. Obama rama