North London Food & Culture

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Your chance to sleep with the Camden Lock Ness Monster

‘Nessie’ will take up residence in the canal during next week’s Camden Create festival. Want to win a two night stay in a penthouse suite right next to her? Here’s how…

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The nimby threat to London’s cultural landscape

Serial objectors often carry more weight than supporters of thriving local businesses. But does anyone really have ownership of the area they live in?

Community

So what’s Rufus Cafe all about?

An airy space opened a few weeks back on Highgate Road, specialising in salt beef bagels and pulled pork wraps

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Wednesday Picture: I built the buxom mermaid of King’s Cross

The man behind the infamous busty 90s figurehead tells us exactly how she came to be such a landmark

Community

Cocktail quarter: step inside Knowhere Special

We predict the tiny basement bar is about to be Kentish Town’s biggest subterranean hit since Chicken Shop. Just don’t all go there at once

Community

Exposed! 1920s shop sign on Queen’s Crescent

This morning, the most incredible vintage store front was uncovered on one of London’s oldest market streets

Family

Is this Camden’s most truly inspirational event?

Every two years, Camden Music Trust somehow manages to coordinate 2000 of the borough’s schoolchildren to perform at the Royal Albert Hall in a life-affirming event. Were you there on Monday night?

Music

Why Camden Crawl is back as CC14

The legendary inner city arts and music festival returns this year – with a new name. Organiser Lisa Paulon explains why

Property

Wednesday Picture: ‘Stop Selling Council Houses’

Last week’s article by Tim Sowula, ‘Are we all being priced out?’ kicked off a reader debate about council versus private housing. And then we saw this banner yesterday

Art

A very different bird’s eye view of Kentish Town Road

Last month’s aerial shot was shared thousands of times by readers. Here’s one of a slightly more surreal kind

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