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Community Pinboard: Boats, Books and Bank Holiday Japes

1.Browse A Floating Market. Head up along the manor’s prettiest canalways to Little Venice where you’ll catch an array of shops all housed in cute …

Theatre

Review: Camden Fringe – Arabian Nights, Camden People’s Theatre

This Fringe production by Jennifer Lee is far from the lavish setting typically associated with these tales of the Orient. The scenario is, of course, …

Community

Community Pinboard: Entertain your kids. Visit the Theatre. Eat Chicken (no, not there!)

1. Own A Pony (for a day). Our own dinky pocket of country living (that’s Kentish Town City Farm to you) offers a chance this …

Theatre

Review: Camden Fringe – Shelter, Tristan Bates Theatre

We’re now in the second week of the Camden Fringe festival, the theatre and comedy extravaganza enjoying its 7th year. And running until Saturday is …

Theatre

The Big Review: Wasted, Roundhouse

I’ve been following poet and rapper Kate Tempest since first catching her a few years ago at NW5 writer Salena Godden’s legendary Book Club Boutique …

Theatre

The Big Review: ‘Orpheus Descending’ at The Poor School

A trip to rapidly morphing King’s Cross is never short of a few surprises. On this occasion it’s not a sweeping new concourse or world …

Theatre

The Big Review: As You Like It, Lion & Unicorn Theatre

Custom Practice, the London-based theatre company who aim to create ‘arresting productions of new and classical works’, have come up trumps with this engaging modern …

Theatre

Why It Matters: Giant Olive at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre

Tucked away in leafy Gaisford Street above the Lion and Unicorn pub is a vital organ, kept alive by a passion for storytelling, and a …

Theatre

The World According to Sallis

George Sallis as Pierre in Nabokov’s ‘Invitation to a Beheading’, 2009 We don’t make a habit of upsetting folk here at The Kentishtowner, but one …

Bench Tales

Local Hero?

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V8VeuvlTlw] Gospel Oak boy Benjamin Garfield dropped us a line the other day about ‘Benches’, a three minute flick he’s entered into this year’s Reed …

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