North London Food & Culture

Why It Matters

Community

Want to be a stallholder on Queen’s Crescent Market?

It’s one of London’s oldest street markets. And if you have a new business idea they’re offering a free course – and free market stall to put it all into action

Q&A

Public Speaking: Harry, fishmonger and butcher

In the first of a new series, the popular long-standing shop-owner on wanting to be a construction engineer, leaving Iran – and why he loves food

Music

Why it matters: musicians getting paid

There’s a prevailing attitude that, as a musician, your job is more enjoyable than the others — meaning you would happily do it for nothing

Community

‘Giles Coren is wrong’

Alongside gentrification, Kentish Town has nurtured its unique charm and warm authenticity, argues born and bred local Laura Murray

Why It Matters

Why It Matters: Sharing grief in the Facebook era

With so much of our daily life shared online, it’s only natural that death features in the feed too. So how do we navigate that in such a public space?

Film

How I coped with losing my soulmate

It was through the Kentishtowner that recently widowed musician David Gledhill started dating again. Here he describes a year of insurmountable grief – and the film that came out of it

Community

Why It Matters: Project 353 – enabling young disabled people

Elfrida Rathbone Camden’s director Alexis Keir on a special exhibition at a Queen’s Crescent gallery that comes to an end this week

Community

Why it matters: Pushing comedy boundaries – by Harry Deansway

He’s been up in Edinburgh all August – but this Thursday the local comedian returns for the autumn season of his seminal Shambles night at Aces & Eights in Tufnell Park

Why It Matters

Why It Matters: Supporting your local football team – with added Gareth Bale

In the first of a month of sport-themed columns, Tim Sowula celebrates local level football and the thriving youth teams here in Kentish Town

Why It Matters

Why It Matters: Guy’s Trust

In October 2011 twenty five year old north Londoner Guy Joseph was tragically killed in a paragliding accident. His sister Lauren explains why their family set up a trust in his memory to create educational opportunities for young people in developing countries

About Kentishtowner

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