North London Food & Culture

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Art

Review: DRAF Gallery, Camden

Top new creative space opens down near Mornington Crescent

Community

Pinboard: New Year’s Eve Top 7

1. Feast. Then Walk Home. Why trek to the West End when you can eat and booze at the Junction Tavern and then roll home? …

Wednesday Picture

Wednesday Picture: Flaxon Ptootch Murals Old and New – Which do you prefer?

How was your Christmas? Ours was fine, thanks, although the skies were steely, the rain incessant. We thought you might be turkeyed out by this …

Music

Kentishtuner: Top 10 Songs of 2012

Firstly, massive thanks to everyone who read my first Kentishtuner column, and for all the subsequent tweets and follows and likes. And since it’s Christmas …

Art

Kentishtowner Awards: Best Live Venue or Gallery 2012

‘Does karaoke at the Boston count?’ So said one of you, and of course, if it pulled in enough votes it surely would do. But …

Wednesday Picture

In Pictures: Christmas Day Swimming on Hampstead Heath

It takes a certain type of person to want to participate in this bracing ritual. Go on, dive in

Community

Pinboard: Celebrate 40 Years Of Kentish Town City Farm – plus Seasonal Offers & Markets Galore

1. A Must-See 40th Birthday Exhibition at Kentish Town City Farm. The original urban farm is 40 years old this year – still a firm …

Books

Heard about the novel set in 1940s Kentish Town?

And what’s more it’s packed with near-incest, murder, home abortions and prostitutes (on Leverton Street, if you please!)

Community

Pinboard: Tolli Finally Opens Up, Doing Something Good for Christmas – and Banquets & Booze.

1. Let the Crimbo Banqueting Begin. Grub London has taken up residence at Open Kitchen Camden, in the former Meribel Brasserie under the arches of …

Music

Kentishtuner: A New Music Column for North London

It’s a relative shock moving from leafy Surrey to the heart of Kentish Town, with a year-long stop off in Bloomsbury (student halls, not bijou …

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