“Making Flippy Floppy”….or Lemon-Vanilla Crunch! The Indian Cricket Team toured Pakistan in 2004, playing a hard-fought Test and One Day series. Both teams had an evening of feasting on dinner, followed by copious amounts of dessert and Ice Cream. Sachin Tendulkar, who runs a restaurant…
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Sometimes you might want to put your site behind closed doors If you’ve got a publication that you don’t want the world to see yet because it’s not ready to launch, you can hide your Ghost site behind a simple shared pass-phrase.
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Artfest 2002 – Pakistani Cinema Poster Exhibition curated by The Hot Spot. By 2002 The Hot Spot’s first steps into the world wide web had started to make waves. The website was created by Omar Tufail, a Hot Spot customer from Scotland who was a…
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The Hot Spot THING Reaches Karachi! This thing keeps on rolling, a lot like The Blob in the classic 1950s horror flick. We bring our touch of madness and funky tunes to Karachi, along with ice cream made exactly the same way as in Islamabad…
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The Hot Spot’s Hand-Painted Pakistani Movie Posters Exhibition at The Commonwealth Institute, London. This Poster exhibition was a dream come true, but making it happen was quite the opposite. Transporting dozens of heavy canvas posters from Royal Park to The Commonwealth Insitute was easy in…
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Someone With a Sense of Humour at Dawn Ranks The Hot Spot’s Crazy Website as one of Pakistan’s Top 10 The Website was an extension of the Printed Magazine we had started called The Scream. Except it allowed us to express so much more of our…
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The Hot Spot Opens in Lahore After a step here, a sidestep, and a wrong turn or two, we finally arrived at our destination at an unbuilt building and were to become the first “kids on the block” at T Block. We opened quietly, with…
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Going Underground! Having been unceremoniously dumped from our previous location yet honoured to be replaced by the groundbreaking “The Cool Spot”, we found refuge underground. Our “Basement Shop” was featured on Dawn’s front page. Please note, not a cellphone in sight.
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Islamabad is hit by a wave of culture and art like never before as very imaginatively named “The Cool Spot” replaces “The Hot Spot”. Islamabad underwent an overnight Cultural Revolution and transformed itself into a hub of artistic activity like never witnessed before. Artists, Musicians,…
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The Chai Shoppe @ The Hot Spot Over the years, the F7 Gol Market area had gained a reputation as being cursed among Islamabad’s property dealer community. In the 1980s, a prominent, well-connected family started Islamabad’s attempt at “Fine Dining” with an upmarket restaurant designed…