You can hardly enter a pharmacy these days without tripping over a mountain of cold and flu capsules. While we’re happy for medicinal progression and all, Time Out finds out if your mother’s home remedies carry any weight in today’s pill popping environs
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Posted inMusic
The cat in the hat
This month, Saul ‘Slash’ Hudson will play in the UAE with the band Velvet Revolver. He’s not only the most recognisable guitarist on earth, but one who’s written some of the best and most memorable riffs since the Rolling Stones stopped being any good. He spoke to Time Out about cheating death, not being let into Guns N’ Roses gigs, becoming a dad and why grunge never overtook hard rock.
Posted inWellbeing
Al Nahyan Maternal and Child Health Care Center
Laura Fulton looks at the city’s best kept medical secret at Central Hospital
Posted inKids Fitness, Sports
On yer bike
Matt Ross swaps the bustle of the city for the sweeping dunes of the desert, taking to quad bikes and letting out his inner kid
Posted inMovies
A close shave
Johnny Depp, has again teamed up with macabre director Tim Burton to make Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street. Time Out spoke to Depp about his sixth collaboration with Burton, life in France and why he’s scared of awards
Posted inMovies
Alternative Oscars
At the end of this month the Oscars will take place in Los Angeles, with worthy films getting awards. But what about the categories the Academy have ignored, including ones to shame cinematic wrongdoers? After all, they have an award for best make-up. Time Out rights that wrong
Posted inMovies
Jake’s progress
Jake Gyllenhaal made his name playing the tortured teen, but now he wants to be a real man. But as his latest film Rendition is released, are people really prepared to believe the nicest man in Hollywood has gone bad?
Posted inMovies
Wild thing
Emile Hirsch better hold on tight – the Into The Wild star is about to take off
Posted inFeatures
Cook who’s talking: Garry Hollihead
The latest addition to Abu Dhabi’s dining scene opens its doors at Emirates Palace this month. London-based Embassy Club has journeyed a few thousand miles to set up a new camp in the capital, and brought its co-owner and executive chef with it.
Posted inMovies
Reborn to run
As the saying goes, what’s old is new again – or at least fresh enough for a quick opening-weekend blitz before sinking into obscurity. The recent dud The Invasion and imminent remakes of Halloween and 3:10 To Yuma have us shaking our heads. But on rare occasions, do-overs eclipse the originals, and the dare actually works. Here are some exceptional revisitations