North London Food & Culture

People

Q&A

Ich Bin: Mychael Barratt, printmaker

We speak to a local Printmaker in Residence showing at the Affordable Art Fair on the Heath this weekend

Culture

MUST DO: local free festival spesh

It’s that time of year again. So here are two for this weekend – and a couple for the diary

People

Why you should read Commute Blog

Do you ever wonder about the lives of people you’re pressed up against on the tube? Reader Amy Dicketts did – and decided to do something about it

Eating & Drinking

The fascinating tale of the Lemongrass restaurant

Thomas Tan evaded the Khmer Rouge invasion in 1975. He talks to Kat Hopps about how he built a new life on Royal College Street

People

A love letter to the 24 bus

Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton on the only relationship she needs in this city

Design & Style

Ich Bin: Ian Drummond, interior landscape designer

To coincide with this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, which kicks off today, meet the acclaimed local garden designer with a penchant for Chicken Shop

Culture

‘He’s in the clink for being a fence, ain’t he?’

Clyde Lyndon Selby, a former local teacher who now lives in Tasmania, reflects on a life teaching in Kentish Town back in the 1970s

Family

Must Do: May Day festival at Kentish Town City Farm

Be warned: some gratuitous pictures of cute animals. And all the news on this weekend’s family bash

Q&A

Ich Bin: Charles Cave, White Lies songwriter

“I try to take my time and make something above average, there’s really no rush”

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