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Pinboard: New Shows at Beardsmore and Cob Galleries + Dandy Lion Market

1. Pick Up Your Limited Edition Kentishtowner in Print – at The Grafton, 6pm Tonight Yup, we’ve been in the newsprint laboratory these last couple …

Coffee

The story of the Camden Coffee Shop on Delancey Street

Stepping through the door is a rare moment of authenticity in a world of the salvaged, restyled and re-purposed

History

The story of South Kentish Town, NW5’s ghost tube station

It was closed a mere 17 years after it opened. Why? And find out how it became an escape room

Art

Pinboard: Art Gallery Special. And a Hunting Cabin in Camden, No Less

1. Local ‘Broken’ Artwork. Flaxon Ptootch, the infamous gallery-salon crossover, is currently exhibiting these intriguing works by North London-based musician and artist Lupen Crook. Crook …

Art

Video: ATG’s Mr P updating the Kentish Town graffiti

Brilliant short film directed by Billy Boyd Cape captures the moment in all its glory

Art

Ich Bin Kentishtowner: Mr P, Street Artist

Jack ‘Mr P’ Murray is part of ATG or ‘Ahead’a The Game’, a crew of graffiti writers, visual artists, and musicians formed in Northwest London …

Art

Pinboard: The Latest on Boris Bikes (And Say Hello, Wave Goodbye to Your Resolutions?)

Back in September our writer Tim Sowula launched his petition to get the Barclays Bike scheme extended through Kentish Town to the Heath. He has …

Wednesday Picture

Wednesday Picture: Carreras Art Deco Cigarette Factory, Mornington Crescent

The chequered history of the huge Egyptian-themed building that wiped out much-loved communal gardens

Wednesday Picture

Wednesday Picture(s): New Year’s Day 2013

What did you do after that rainy New Year’s Eve (and how was that, by the way?) We, inevitably, were up at the crack of …

Art

Review: DRAF Gallery, Camden

Top new creative space opens down near Mornington Crescent

About Kentishtowner

The award-winning print and online title Kentishtowner was founded in 2010 and is part of London Belongs To Me, a citywide network of travel guides for locals. For more info on what we write about and why, see our About section.