The jungle drums beat loud and fast in the Twitter era, so here are the best titbits of gossip to be spread liberally about this week. Football still dominates the weekend agenda, of course, but we’ve already covered that, of course (and yes, there will be a screen at Streetfeast). 1. Your photography judged by …
Community Pinboard: Rankin Photo Comp, Free Bike Fix, Luxury Flats Read More »
This is, we strongly believe, still one of our best neighbourhood dining options. All it needs are a few tweaks
Tonight (and with no small thanks to Thames Water, who have flooded the Central Line), we’re late and rushing through Chelsea stadium, passing by changing rooms and merchandise shops. Finally, we find what we’re looking for: the entrance to a new club, ‘Under The Bridge’, hidden in a tiny doorway beneath the outer walls. Onstage …
Why did Frankenstein author Mary Shelley call Kentish Town an ‘odious swamp?’ (If it makes you feel any better, local readers, Naples was a ‘paradise inhabited by devils’, her villa on the Italian Riviera a ‘dungeon’). In 1824 Shelley moved to Bartholomew Place, a rather lovely terrace built with ‘unobstructed views over Holloway and Islington’; …
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We admit we’re not the most ardent footy fans, but a good international tournament lends summer a special collective vibe that’s hard to beat. So with England’s first game of Euro 2012 easing us into the right frame of mind last night, here are 5 of the very best places in K-Town to enjoy the …
5 Best Pubs & Bars to watch Euro 2012 Football in Kentish Town Read More »
I first saw The Maccabees in January 2007 when they were supporting one of their south London peers, Jamie T, at the dingy student union at Leeds Met. Who knows where Mr T is now but The Maccabees are exactly where they should be – selling out Ally Pally. The handsome palace has seen a …
Some readers will be all too familiar with the wasteland that is a London high street at 3am on a Sunday morning. And that image is precisely what appealed to us about this pair of dirty desperados, with the living dead hot on their heels. (Let’s just say that no self-professed zombie flick is complete …
This week DEFRA close their consultation on ‘irresponsible dog ownership’ (scroll down for the points in full). So, with it being nearly two months since she was last attacked, we thought we’d ask: how’s Pepper? Fortunately this time she recovered without complication, thanks to plenty of TLC, some effective medication, natural canine resilience – and …
Why It Matters: Dog on dog attacks – how’s Pepper? Read More »
It wasn’t glorious. Not even a bit warm, like the opening day of the Camden Town Brewery’s Bar back in March. Normally a west-facing evening sun-trap, last night there was just a ray here, a ray there, in between the howling winds and dark thunder clouds rolling ominously behind the arches of Kentish Town West. …
Review: First night of StreetFeast, Kentish Town West Read More »
Every time we walk along the canal, we conclude that we simply don’t do it enough. More often we go east, towards the Saturday crowds in Broadway Market, or the calm of Victoria Park; but a route that’s just as varied, and in fact far more verdant, is west. Paddington Basin is somewhere that no-one …
Free Weekend? Walk the oldest stretch of canal to Paddington Basin Read More »
