North London Food & Culture

Culture

Sex & Dating

Meet two women talking frankly about sex: Project Pleasure

And don’t miss their live special at Camden’s Roundhouse for International Women’s Day this week

Music

KOKO to close for a year for £40million reboot

The Camden venue to reopen with six performance areas, three new restaurants and retail outlets

Fashion

Inside Flamin’ Eight Tattoos, Kentish Town

We talk tats – and A-list celebs – with the iconic studio’s owner Naresh Bhana

Theatre

Last chance: Osric Omand & The Story of Hope, Etcetera Theatre

Don’t miss this hilariously surreal slice of slapstick by N19-based group 21st Century Cox

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Coffee

Let it Roll Records: now with in-store coffee and garden

We meet the owner of the Kentish Town Road vinyl haven’s new caffeine-fuelled hangout

Art

Freelands Foundation: a new art gallery in NW1

Just over Primrose Hill Bridge in the former Chalk Farm Garage is an airy new art space

Books

RJ Bailey: meet the local couple who write thrillers together

We head to Dartmouth Park to meet Robert and Deb Ryan, the duo behind a riveting series of thrillers

LGBT

Coming Clean review – a genuine snapshot of gay life from 1982

Kevin Elyot’s seminal play set in Kentish Town has an authenticity that lingers in the memory

Music

Jazz at The Oxford: it’s 100% back

The legendary weekly sessions on Monday nights are back in earnest this month. Woop!

Books

The London Literary Salon is back in Kentish Town

We like the idea of taking a course that’s a ‘spa for the mind’

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