November, 2011

My Own Pop-up Idaho

By on November 29, 2011 in Culture, Fashion, Film

We don’t really want to publicise this as it’s getting ever-busier and we do require that sofa-for-two at the back, but you know us; we simply can’t help ourselves. And so here’s a quick missive to alert readers to the last two FREE screenings at the Zabludowicz’s ace pop-up cinema. This season it’s all about [...]

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Free Portrait on a Friday?

By on November 25, 2011 in Art

Walking casually down Castlehaven Road the other weekend we chanced upon a photo shoot in progress. It was an otherwise drab afternoon, but the studio lights bathing the pavement drew our attention, as they had done a small gaggle of others. Such inquisitiveness was being rewarded with the opportunity to have a professional portrait taken [...]

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Behind the scenes at Camden Town Brewery

By on November 18, 2011 in Drink

With the media flurry about our enviable local ale drinking options continuing apace, the Kentishtowner couldn’t resist a trip under the railway arches to see the area’s very own brewery in action. Spanning out beneath Kentish Town West station amid sacks of wheat and stacks of kegs, the Camden Brewery team are working flat out [...]

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Fancy buying the Bull & Gate? Here’s some advice.

By on November 16, 2011 in Drink, Music

A year ago, we wrote the following, now rather prescient, entry on the Bull & Gate: “This classic boozer has had a bit of a makeover. For now, it seems the old whore’s lipstick is just about in place. But for how much longer?” And so we were sorry – if not surprised – to [...]

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Guanabananarama!

By on November 11, 2011 in Food

‘Daddio’, whined the eldest daughter (oh go on then, let’s call her Mini Kentishtowner). ‘Why are there so many dirty glasses in here?’ Not necessarily the most diplomatic of comments, but then Mini is, to be fair, only 4 years old. And right there at Guanabana, deep in Kentish Town Road’s nether regions, she had [...]

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Bored Tonight? Watch Weekend

By on November 10, 2011 in Bored Tonight, Film

We’re not sure why this is our first ever cinema-related post – after all, we love nothing more than a night at the movies, mostly at the tres chic Belsize Park Everyman. And let’s not forget that back in the early ’90s, Mrs Kentishtowner was even awarded a First Class Honours in Film Studies (due [...]

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Kentish Town: the best pubs in London?

By on November 4, 2011 in Drink

Kentish Town is spear-heading London’s oh-so-current real ale revival. And it’s not just us saying this – we would, of course – but other London sites are enthusing too, like here and here. So can we cobble together a chronology to all this? First, we think, came the Pineapple, a perfect real pub, ales and [...]

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