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Pinboard: How to do Fireworks Night 2012, Discuss Food & Dance Like The Dead.

By on November 1, 2012 in Pinboard

1. Watch The Fireworks. Well, how could anything else be #1 this week? Yet sadly there’s very little opportunity for anything professionally organized in the borough of Camden these days. Your only choice is Coram’s Fields Fireworks, aimed at families with young children, which takes place on Friday 2 November from 5pm (admission free but [...]

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Top 5: Best Bars Camden Town

By on October 31, 2012 in Drink, Secret Camden

Last week’s inaugural Top 5 – our NW5 Pizza special, actually a Top 7 – became quite a talking point amongst readers. So this week it’s back as a regular series, which promises to flit across the borough and beyond, highlighting places we think are worth trying out. It’s non-conclusive, non-comprehensive, and should be the [...]

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Best Live Venue 2011

By on January 5, 2012 in Awards, Music

1. Roundhouse 2. Bull & Gate 3= Koko 3= Barfly And so to our final (belated) 2011 awards category. Despite the Xmas rush, it’s fair to say votes came pouring in. And the more we – and some of you – thought about it, the harder, and perhaps more futile, it actually seemed to plump [...]

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Oh and one more thing: Best Live Music venue

By on December 24, 2011 in Awards, Music

Roundhouse or Wheelbarrow? The Forum or Heroes? Proud Galleries or Blues Kitchen? Black Heart or Koko? Bull & Gate or Lock Tavern? Downstairs at The Torriano or upstairs at The Oxford? What about Barfly? God knows why this category slipped through the net. We blame the dog; or maybe the mulled cider. Still, our corner [...]

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Don’t Cry For Me, O Martini

By on May 27, 2011 in Drink

‘Perhaps,’ I wondered, ‘she was an illusion?’ ‘More likely,’ said Mrs Kentishtowner, ‘she was a portent of our impending doom.’ No, we weren’t discussing a Somerfield sighting of Sam Cam in baseball cap and shades; we were, however, pondering the whereabouts of a mixologist who, having served some delicious libations at Blues Kitchen, gave us [...]

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