09 6 / 2012
Another tiger-in-car spotting in Dubai.
Who are these idiots that have tigers as pets?
06 6 / 2012
Future Dubai in the PS3 game Spec Ops: The Line that was released this week. It looks pretty spectacular.
24 1 / 2012
Dubai bonus
Football agent Peter Harrison has decided to go after Harry Redknapp and Fat Sam, including this not-at-all-surprising tweet:
“Here is a teaser for tonight, which ex Bolton manager asked me to get prostitutes up to the room in Dubai”
01 1 / 2012
Fact of the day…
13 12 / 2011
The Movida nightclub from London is opening in Dubai at the end of this month, but hopefully it won’t be anything like the notoriously bad one in London. Aside from the usual complaints about overpriced, tacky West End nightclubs, it seems that the feedback concerns a shockingly disturbing racist policy.
Here are some of the comments:
- AVOID - ESPECIALLY if you’re in a mixed group, i.e. with black and Asian friends (they’re harassed at the door or don’t get in at all, which is profoundly gross).
- They are definitely racist - no matter how much money you bring, and how many tables you are willing to book. Loads of prejudice! I felt really frustrated on my birthday, having nowhere else to go after booking 2 weeks in advance with Movida and being rejected at the door… with half of my guests (all white) inside.
- Maybe it was because we are Indian, because I walked down the road and came back and saw the same lady letting in groups of white males with no questions.
- Racist and rude.
- This club is racist - young black men are denied entry 99% of the time, unless they are a pro footballer or well-known music or TV star…
- Prejudiced, horrible doormen. This club deserves closing down!
- I’d like to second most of the reviews for Movida. It has to be the most pretentious club I’ve ever been to, with the rudest staff I’ve had the misfortune to be served by.
- Movida has to be the WORST club I have been to… and I have been to some bad clubs! If you’re not a ‘VIP’ (caged animal) you are literally treated like crap
- Pretentious hole. Full of gold-digging girls from Romford looking for an Arabian sugar daddy.
Although in the interest of some balance, there were a some people who liked it. Here’s one comment…
- £28 for 2 drinks. Expensive, yes. But it does actually keep out the riff-raff.
11 12 / 2011
This is set of tour dates for Madonna in 2012 that was seemingly leaked from Live Nation. She’s down to play Abu Dhabi on June 6th next year at Yas.
11 12 / 2011
While over in Bahrain…
4 Dec: Bahrain sentence goalkeeper Ali Saeed to a year in prison for taking part in pro-democracy protests. An inquiry found detainees were “systematically abused” with “electric shocks and beatings”.
10 Dec: Bahrain state news agency quotes Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa celebrating International Human Rights Day. “Bahrain has always been – and will remain – resolved to promote human rights culture.”
