North London Food & Culture

Culture

Music

Dingwall’s Camden to be renamed The PowerHaus

Music impresario Vince Power confirms Camden music venue has undergone a name change

Eating & Drinking

Six Things We Learnt This Week

From the latest pop-ups to podcasts to streateries to catch before the autumn hits

Art

Two Metres: a photo book documenting the pandemic in Camden

Kenwood Ladies Pond photographer Ruth Corney on her thought-provoking portrait of how Covid affected the local community

Eating & Drinking

Six places we miss in Tufnell Park

From Del Parc to Soho Hip, Shoe Shop to Ceremony, how many of these did you frequent?

Books

Take a literary tour of these inspiring local blue plaques

Freelance reporter Jennifer Rigby plots a self-guided north London city hike with a purpose

Drink

‘A previous landlady would parade naked’: the tale of the Junction Tavern

Ex-owner Jacky Kitching on how she turned around the Fortess Road institution back in 2002

History

The secret history of Kentish Town’s piano factories

Did you know that between 1870 and 1914 Camden was the centre of the world’s manufacture of pianos?

Culture

Camden’s statues, monuments and place names to be examined

As part of the Black Lives Matter protests, cross-party group to review existing naming of buildings, streets, public spaces and memorials

Books

Why Little Green Street features in Joanna Briscoe’s The Seduction

The acclaimed NW5-based author of Sleep With Me on how the locations in her new novel don’t stray far from home

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