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Why It Matters: The Parlour Gallery, Kentish Town
Other local galleries may be better known, sexier, or more on-trend but Queen’s Crescent’s Parlour Gallery is one that makes consistent effort to engage with …
Life Tips #4: Zak, Working Mum
1. ‘Make every impression count. I once struck up conversation with a customer at my first job in London, waitressing, then saw him again two …
Why It Matters: Kentish Town City Farm
2012 is not just about the Olympics; it’s the year that Kentish Town City Farm – the UK’s first ever City Farm – celebrates its …
Life Tips #3: Rose Hacker, world’s oldest newspaper columnist (1906-2008)
‘Life might be about nothing, but it might be about something’
Why It Matters: Bikram Yoga in Queen’s Crescent
Upside down, sweat streaming into both eyes, is not a usual position for inspiration to strike. But it was at precisely that degree of akimbo …
Life Tips #2. John, 60, Market Stallholder
1. ‘If you’re a jewellery seller, don’t ask for a stall nearest the entrance. It’s the first one customers see so they’ll walk straight by, …
Why Flapjacks Cafe matters
‘I’m heartened that it exists, that there are patient, caring, supportive people who want to work there and help their colleagues’
Weekend film review: ‘its ending will make you cry’
On the surface it’s a slight tale of boy-meets-boy over a grey weekend in Nottingham. But there’s so much more than that
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