Just a quick post to encourage you all to pop down to Zabludowicz’s latest show. Everytime we visit this gallery we can’t believe how lucky we are to have it on our doorstep. Till Dec 11 is the first solo show from Laurel Nakadate, an American artist who works with film, photography and performance. Nakadate [...]
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I say Delicious and you say Hideaway
No, we’re not arguing the toss about handbag house classics from the 1990s (ask yer mum). Instead, today’s mass debate revolves around two of the area’s diminutive pizza parlours. Which serves up the tastiest wood-fired wonders? Is it a) miniscule, low-ceilinged heart-of-Kentish local Delicious by Franco, run by a Venetian family who dish up more [...]
The World According to Sallis
George Sallis as Pierre in Nabokov’s ‘Invitation to a Beheading’, 2009 We don’t make a habit of upsetting folk here at The Kentishtowner, but one local whose nose was put out of joint the other week was George Sallis, artistic director of Giant Olive Theatre Company. Yes, you may remember he was the one who, [...]
Gallery Watch: Leighton Space, Liminal & Guts For Garters
Another week, another gallery or three. But it’s nice to see this one opening outside the West Kentish Town ghetto and in the previously artistically-untapped “Leightons” area just east of the Assembly House pub. Leighton Space , says the blurb, provides the “opportunity for professional artists to show work at all stages and in a [...]
Owl’s About it?
She might not be an obvious beauty, but she sure as hell hides some secrets in her frilly drawers. No, we’re not talking about Mrs Kentishtowner; we are, however, eulogizing the pleasures of Kentish Town Road, a high street so modest its traffic lights are probably glowing red as we speak. Ignore the bump of [...]
Dartmouth Arms
So The Evening Standard is trying to whip up a bit of foam about a supposed Dartmouth Park Posse, which ‘centres on the white-stuccoed home of Ed himself.’ This ill-identified grouping are, it claims, ‘healing a party that has lost its way.’ Well, you’d never guess at such machinations if you stood here, at the [...]
Spring Projects & Studios
We heart the long-established Spring Studios and this custom-built 3000ft commercial gallery, which provides a platform for contemporary art, design and fashion, opened in 2008. Typifying the ongoing cultural regeneration of West Kentish Town, it’s a fabulous white space and, if you’re really polite, they may let you have a peak around one of the [...]
The Pineapple
Step behind new critics’ favourite the Kentish Canteen into Leverton Place and you’re transported into a faded world of Dolly Mixture-coloured cottages and cutesy terraces. Nice, if you can afford it. Yet on the corner of leafy Leverton Street lurks The Pineapple, a real Victorian pub with a mixed crowd and many a nook and [...]
Old Eagle
Old Eagle (251 Royal College St) feels like a secret, although some would argue it belongs in Camden not Kentish really. A proper boozer with a mind-boggling variety of musical instruments dangling from its ceiling, it’s cosy by night, attracts a nice eclectic crowd of locals and hipsters, and its main USP is the £3 [...]
Cafe Bintang
Bintang is a Kentish Town institution, yet is still not as consistent as it should be. Oozing vibes and atmosphere, with its Malaysian shack-like interior, candle-lit tables in close proximity, and BYO wine policy (hooray!) our advice remains to stick with vegetarian and fish dishes and avoid anything meaty (chicken knuckles have been known to [...]
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For the wrecking ball? Historic pub, home to the legendary Flowerpot (and Verge, and Castle)
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Why It Matters: Busting the delayed motherhood myth
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Wednesday Picture: Spies in Kentish Town?
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Pinboard: Amy singsong, art along the PoW – and a letter from Jay Gatsby?
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Big Review: Tufnell Park Tavern – a pub, farmers’ market and gallery rolled into one
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Big Review: Tufnell Park Tavern – a pub, farmers’ market and gallery rolled into one
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Free Weekend? Hike the 16 mile borough boundary
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For the wrecking ball? Historic pub, home to the legendary Flowerpot (and Verge, and Castle)
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Pinboard: Amy singsong, art along the PoW – and a letter from Jay Gatsby?
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The story behind Sian Pattenden’s Kentishtowner Cultural Map prints
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Tom Storr: There is a band on at the bandstand on Hampstead H...
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Alison: Anonanon has a great point - what hope is there if...
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Lara May Jakob: All true, it's a good pub but the farmers market ...
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turbulentsilverfox: What day are people doing it??...