This week’s must-have, must-see, must-do

The Club 

Saipan is located on the 3rd Floor, Dream Plaza, at 7 Bishop Aboyade Cole Street, Victoria Island, Lagos. Saipan’s bar is perhaps the hippest place to be on a Friday or Saturday night. A wide range of cocktails, seductive lighting and comfy seats give you all you need. Phone: 01-4612056

THE GADGET 

iPod Classic is still one of the leading MP3 players in today’s market, especially when it comes to high capacity digital media storage. There are a few players that have more space but then you sacrifice the superior quality of the iPod. The iPod comes with the iTunes Store. The iTunes Store has seemingly endless apps to enjoy along with other media. It gives you apps for games, weather, sports, financial and the list goes on and on. The great thing about iTunes is that it can be used on a Mac or PC unlike the Zune, which is for

The watch 

An auction house says a Patek Philippe gold wristwatch sold for a record price of $5.7 million ($6.31m) at a Swiss auction. Christie’s said on Tuesday it was the highest price ever for a watch from the auction house and a record price for any yellow gold wristwatch ever sold at auction. The 1943 piece was bought by a private Swiss museum. Christie’s declined to identify the museum. The watch features a perpetual calendar chronograph with moon phases.

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THE BOOK 

In The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier points out, is actually falling quite rapidly for about 80 percent of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states, the bottom billion, whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty. In the book, Collier contends that these 50 failed states pose the central challenge of the developing world in the 21th Century.

The book shines a much needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialised West, that are dropping further and further behind the majority of the world’s people, often falling into an absolute decline in living standards. A struggle rages

THE CAR 

The Lexus GS 450h is the fastest mass-produced hybrid car on the planet. It’s the first purely rear-wheel-drive hybrid sedan. And yet it has superlatives that transcend hybrids. This car’s engine and continuously variable transmission (with modes for sport, snow, and normal), covered with Lexus’s typically decadent cockpit of leather and (Mark) Levinson, offers enough performance and prestige to make any upwardly mobile executive consider joining the hybrid club.

The raw numbers – 0-to-60 in 5.2 seconds, 60-to-zero braking in 123 feet, top speed of 131mph, sitting for five, 37.5 decibels at idle – add up to “luxury vehicle to be reckoned with,” as do expected luxury features such as satellite radio, voice-activated navigation system, Bluetooth technology, back-up camera, leather… the list goes on

THE WINE 

Grenache is one of the world’s most-enjoyed but least-known grapes. It’s savoured in countless bottles of Cotes-du-Rhone, Chateauneuf-du-Pape and other Southern Rhone Valley blends, whose labels seldom mention the names of the grapes inside.

Once a year on International Grenache Day, red lovers salute this grape. In Australia, Grenache’s spiritual home is McLaren Vale, where there’s to be a “tweet-up” on the big day,