Author: adminside
As home to some of the most epic tourist attractions in the United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi is the go-to destination for visitors who want to enjoy a more genteel pace than its flashier neighbor, Dubai. That aside, the UAE’s charming capital still packs a travel punch and is abuzz with activity, especially at night. A cultural hub, shoppers’ paradise and home to everything from souks to super clubs, there’s definitely plenty of places to indulge. Floating serenely on its own island, Louvre Abu Dhabi has been quite rightly basking in the limelight since it opened in 2017 to the tune of $1 billion. As one…
On one side was Abu Dhabi’s mainland — home of its famous mosque and Louvre museum. At the other? Al Hudayriat Island, an island that offers 600 meters (1,970 feet) of quiet beach. Al Hudayriat is one of more than 200 islands that dot the coast of the UAE’s capital. On these islands can be found find eco-retreats, high-end safaris, Maldivian escapes, dolphin snorkeling and so much more. “The islands of Abu Dhabi are lovely in the right season,” says UAE journalist Ashleigh Stewart. “They’re almost like a mini-break if you’re feeling city fatigue. “I’d absolutely recommend them to a visitor.…
Under the dazzling blue sky, the glass-walled skyscraper that is Capital Gate twinkles in the sunlight as people bustle in and out of the airy lobby. Above them, just about visible, are the window cleaners — suspended with ropes and harnesses, artfully polishing Capital Gate’s 728 individually made glass panels, which are custom-designed to fit the building’s unusual shape. These so-called “cliffhangers” can be seen cleaning the diamond-shaped windowpanes every day, working their way around the building. A team of 12, they get through two rounds of Capital Gate every month. Calling the 35-story Abu Dhabi building a skyscraper doesn’t quite convey…
When Salam Almazrouei was a boy, he and his friends would play a game out in the desert that most people would find terrifying. In the dead of night, despite being too young to drive in most countries, they would take cars out into the huge sea of sand dunes stretching from Abu Dhabi to Saudi Arabia, then turn the headlights off. With only the moon to light the way, they would then race to see who could make it home in the fastest time. It was clearly a game fraught with peril. Take a wrong turn, break down or…
Emma Chamberlain is no stranger to revealing every aspect of her life through her stream-of-conscious-style videos, set against the backdrop of her home or her travels. But followers of the 21-year-old YouTube star know that her residence has been in flux over the past year, after she sold her home to escape being “in the thick of LA,” as she described in a video last summer. “It’s kind of emotional, weirdly. Is it? I don’t know,” she said about moving. “These are my last few moments in this house; this is the last time you’re going to see me walk down these…
Finding room for green spaces is a challenge in any city, let alone the world’s most densely populated ones. So in downtown Singapore, anyone looking for a new park to stroll in may need to turn toward the sky. A third of the way up the recently completed CapitaSpring tower, the soaring glass and aluminum facade seemingly bursts open to reveal plants and trees growing hundreds of feet above ground. At street level, passersby and office workers can line up for an elevator leading to this so-called “Green Oasis” — a spiral garden path that winds past exercise equipment, benches…
Wakanda is a marvel. The fictional country of the Marvel Universe is the most advanced civilization in the world, years beyond the rest of the world in technological learning. But it’s a little-noticed part of Wakanda that may predict what our real-life cities of the future should look like, according to author Vishaan Chakrabarti, who I talked to for my new podcast “Downside Up.” “One of the things I love about Wakanda, if you notice, if you watch ‘Black Panther’ carefully, there’s the city, the city’s got all this mass transit and all this housing parks and all this stuff,”…
Turns out, Daniel Craig’s final performance as James Bond was nearly set to a completely different soundtrack. Ed Sheeran revealed that he came very close to writing and recording the theme song for the 2021 film No Time To Die but just missed out. “I was within a f—ing gnat’s pube of doing one,” Sheeran said on Tuesday’s episode of That Peter Crouch Podcast. “They changed directors, and then they just changed scripts, and that was it. But we had done all the meetings. I had started writing it.” The opportunity would instead go to Grammy-winning singer and wunderkind Billie Eilish, who released her soulful Bond single, “No Time…
While they might have gone toe-to-toe against one another in some pretty contentious wizard duels throughout the Harry Potter films, there’s nothing but love between Tom Felton and Daniel Radcliffe in real life. Felton, who recently released a memoir titled Beyond the Wand, explained that the pair have a “fantastic” relationship with one another despite playing bitter rivals Draco Malfoy (Felton) and Harry Potter (Radcliffe) for all eight installments of the blockbuster film franchise. “I love the man dearly,” Felton told CBS Mornings. “I don’t see him as much as I’d like to — that’s the same for all of us, really — but I consider him a brother, definitely.…
Entertainment Weekly is headed down to Georgia for the annual SCAD Savannah Film Festival — and we’re bringing a quintet of actors with us. As part of our partnership with the Savannah College of Art and Design, our executive editor Clarissa Cruz will moderate EW’s Breaking Big panel on Friday, Oct. 28. This year’s honorees include Anna Diop (Nanny, Titans), Banks Repeta (Armageddon Time), Madelyn Cline (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, OuterBanks), Ty Simpkins (The Whale), and Vanessa Burghardt (Cha Cha Real Smooth). A key stop on the Academy Awards festival circuit, the annual event is the largest university-run film festival in the U.S., honoring both professional and student…