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Community Pinboard: E.Mono to launch Patisserie

By on May 18, 2012 in Art, Books, Community, Food

Welcome to a new item on The Kentishtowner – by popular demand. Got a local event coming up? Paste it on our Facebook Page, or email us (info@kentishtowner.co.uk) and we’ll pick our favourites for Community Pinboard every Friday. Scroll down for some exciting E.mono news too. Here are this week’s picks: 1. A Vintage Fair [...]

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Life Tips #5 – Maggie Gee, 63, Author

By on February 21, 2012 in Books, Life Tips

#1. It’s not about the carriage you go round the village in is it? In August 1983 my boyfriend Nick and I, after six months together, decided on a Cambridge registry office. I couldn’t face organizing a wedding – it was about us, after all. I wore a Victorian nightie, Nick wore cheesecloth pajama trousers. [...]

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Best Independent Shop 2011: Owl Bookshop

By on December 16, 2011 in 2011 Best Ofs, Books, Shopping

1. Owl Bookshop 2. Earth 3. B&S DIY Shop With the UK somewhat of a world leader in bland identikit high streets, it’s refreshing to consider the range and calibre of independent shops on offer in the area. Votes came in for a truly diverse range of establishments, from the well-known to the gloriously obscure. [...]

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Fiction on Wednesday: ‘Happiness Is An Option’ (Chapter One)

By on December 7, 2011 in Books, Happiness Is An Option

Your girlfriend’s left you. You find another woman’s diary on a park bench. What to do? Archie Bryant’s decision sets off a chain of events that ends in tragedy. And so begins ‘Happiness Is An Option”, a 12 part serial, set mostly in Kentish Town and Dalston, which was published in 2009 on Time Out, [...]

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The Bible of Kentish Town

By on May 13, 2011 in Books, History

It’s been out a while, but I’m finally devouring the reissue of The Fields Beneath by Gillian Tindall, subtitled a “history of one London village” (Kentish Town – for the uninitiated). Tindall, who has lived in the area for 35 years, traces our manor’s roots and explores how Kentish Town’s identity crisis and social mix [...]

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The Mayor’s Guide to Kentish Town

By on February 9, 2011 in Books, Community, Culture, Food, Kentish Town, Kentishtowner Recommends, Music, Shopping

We can exclusively reveal that loveable ‘Rock ‘n’ roll’ Mayor of Camden, Jonathan Simpson, is about to move to – where else? – the heart of Kentish Town, and to celebrate we tracked him down at his soon-to-be local, The Oxford. In a (natch) music-related chat he told us that his three favourite recent(ish) gigs [...]

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