Typical. Our inaugural ‘Where In The Manor’ feature, back in April, got more views than all our, ahem, in-depth investigations put together. So yes, after the dizzying success of a post called Kenneth, the capital’s defining quiz is BACK – an amuse-bouche, if you like, to your Bank Holiday feasting. So meet this helpful fox. …
The exterior of Karpo looks incredible. Like a bag of Dolly Mixtures. Or box of felt tip pens. Inside, it whispers cafe in Frederichshain, or bar in Vesterbro: wooden benches, candlelit tables, a ‘living wall’ of plants, atrium, open kitchen. There’s a subterranean loungey-bar with books and cocktails, where we sipped a perfect Negroni. ‘In …
This rousing tune from 7-piece London folksters Patch and The Giant combines heartfelt lyrics with an uplifting melody and chorus so catchy it’s unbelievable they’re still unsigned. Even better, Patch are ‘band in residence’ at Highgate’s Boogaloo, where once a month they whip out the bunting for their already-cult ‘Sunday Fete’ night. Despite it being …
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A trip to rapidly morphing King’s Cross is never short of a few surprises. On this occasion it’s not a sweeping new concourse or world class menu that took us aback, but the possessing feeling of being transported to the American Deep South during troubled times. ‘Orpheus Descending’ is a lesser known but powerful Tennessee …
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It doesn’t seem so long ago that the Load of Hay was a boarded up, gravely threatened pub location boasting little more than former glories and occasional squat parties. Yet its successful resurrection as The Hill is actually now near on a decade strong. From those early gastro-boozer beginnings, the latest incarnation of menu and …
1. You’ve got to Speculate to Accumulate in this life. So declared our belated and much admired friend P.G. Wodehouse and I think that I’m inclined to agree! 2. Cross Hatch, Cross Pollinate and never turn down a ‘Cut and Shut.’ Be prepared to be flexible and you will be rewarded! 3. Always be Convivial, …
Custom Practice, the London-based theatre company who aim to create ‘arresting productions of new and classical works’, have come up trumps with this engaging modern dress romp through a work first performed around 1600, and which has always had mixed reactions from critics. Its story is slight, for sure: two cousins, Rosalind and Celia, banished …
The Big Review: As You Like It, Lion & Unicorn Theatre Read More »
We don’t, as a rule, get too involved in politics. After all there are plenty of other media outlets to satisfy that particular vice. We do live, however, in an ‘up and coming’ bit of north London and so are a teeny bit curious about who readers would vote for this Thursday as next London …
Why It Matters special: Who will Kentishtowners vote for as Mayor? Read More »
Eight or nine years ago, Mrs Kentishtowner nearly bought a flat on Huddleston Road. One of those gothicky numbers up the slope, with pretty French doors onto a terrace overlooking the street. Just as she was about to exchange she was cruelly gazumped so, leafy Tufnell Park dream over, the poor woman fled to the …
Anyone for coffee in an industrious space, the opposite of those posy Antipodean places in Soho and Shoreditch?
