1. Indulge in an Ice Cream Daydream. Like some kind of crazy-beautiful gelato Willy Wonka fantasy come true, the King’s Cross Ice Cream Festival really does take place at Granary Square all weekend. The best ice cream purveyors from around London will be showing off their chilly creations and the entire manufacturing process will be [...]
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How To Do Notting Hill Carnival Right: 10 Unusual Tips
I love Notting Hill Carnival. With abandon. There’s something about dancing in the streets of this great city that gets me every time. I’ve sought out good parties all over the world, but this annual hometown bash is The One. Our Carnival might have proud Caribbean roots, but it’s the London influences that lend its [...]
Inspirational Olympic Day Out: Triathlon in Hyde Park
As one of the only ticket-free events in the London 2012 schedule, the Men’s Triathlon in Hyde Park yesterday was a chance to get fully involved in the crowd experience without the forward planning, dogged persistence and pot luck required for attending a paid event. Brownlee, Brownlee, Brownlee! The steady chant reaches a crescendo as [...]
How We Converted the Olympic Park to The Kentishtowner
With Olympic ticketing almost as central to the national dialogue as the weather this summer, we thought it only right for the Kentishtowner to pay a much overdue visit – and spread the word about our humble tome to the swathes of high-spirited attendees. In an evening strangely reminiscent of our bizarre sojourn at London [...]
Why It Matters: Creating Your Own Olympics Legacy
How’s your Olympics so far? Surely even the most sceptical of naysayers must have been swept up by the spirit of the Games by now? The startling national medal success! The raw emotion of the athletes (such endless tears)! The Queen and 007! The lack of traffic on the roads! It’s been a whirlwind few [...]
Video: Watch A London Bus Do Press Ups
Sick to the hind teeth of watching lithe athletes showing off in the skimpiest of outerwear? Yup, us too. So we hobbled our way down to Angel with raging post-Opening Ceremony hangovers to catch Czech artist David Cerny’s life-size Routemaster bus doing press-ups. And it was enough to put a smile even on Mrs Kentishtowner’s [...]
Olympic #torchrelay lights up Camden Roundhouse
It was the surrealness of it all that struck us most. As we strolled with hundreds of others across the sun-lit streets of NW1, people smiling and drinking coffee, or eating ice cream, the vibe was a lazy Sunday afternoon – yet it was 6:30am. Like thousands of others, we had hauled ourselves out of [...]
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Wednesday Picture: Let’s make a K-Town cinema or arts space actually happen!
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Pinboard May 16: A date set for Kentish Town Carnival – and other spring fairs & festivals
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Free Weekend? Explore Stoke Newington – and a Top 5 pub guide
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Why It Matters: Saving St Pancras Old Church
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Ich Bin Kentishtowner: Ben Osborne, DJ and Arctic Monkeys biographer
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Newsflash: two cinema chains seeking a K-Town venue
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Free Weekend? Explore Stoke Newington – and a Top 5 pub guide
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Big Review: Colonel Fawcett, Camden Town
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Fan of Kentish Town graffiti legend Mr P? See his new mural on Crown Place
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Who is the new Mayor? Why, Kentishtowner Jonathan Simpson. Here’s his Top 5…
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Wayne El Guiri Parry: Terrible write up for Stokey , I suggest you go an...
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Dean: I also have the echo the surprise at £10k. Good l...
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Mike: Nice boozer list - but not sure the Southampton Ar...
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Dudisimo: So now they start asking for 10k to put it on? ...
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april: The whole article I was waiting for you to mention...