Capital Odyssey: A Flâneur’s Bloomsbury Wanderings Editor Eddie Saint-Jean turns the clock back a century to trace the flâneur footsteps of novelist Virginia Woolf. The article’s diary style pays homage to her diaries and works written as streams of consciousness. In our busy, buzzing capital city, destination and purpose lie at the heart of every […]
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From pop-up galleries in Peckham to podcast studios in Hackney, freelancing in London offers endless creative opportunities, and just as many challenges. Whether you’re a graphic designer working from a café in Camden or a self-taught filmmaker balancing shoots and edits, life as a freelancer in the capital is full of movement, freedom, and unpredictability. […]
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Five Fun Things to Do in Battersea Battersea Power Station’s iconic brick tower still proudly stands as a totemic landmark to its industrial past, but the smoke-spewing heart of this south London district has long since been gutted, to make way for the shopping, dining and leisure attractions that make this lively and whimsical cultural […]
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NOW IN ITS 3rd YEAR, the London Bengali Film Festival has succeeded in bringing the stories of Bengal and the Bengali diaspora to the capital with, as ever, a rich and educational cultural variety. Founder and CEO Mansur Ali has brought his experience as the founder of the Limelight Awards, the UK’s largest short film […]
One caffeine-fix enlightening trip to the London Coffee Festival 2018 at the Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane and you’ll soon know your Cafe Bombons from your Cafe Lattes. This four-day event, April 12-15, is a step beyond your regular morning coffee serving, with coffee tasting, workshops, talks and demonstrations attracting potential consumers and industry types […]
LONDON BOOK AND SCREEN WEEK might seem a tenuous creative mix but not when you consider it is celebrating one thing – storytelling, regardless of its form. So whether you’re a book lover, aspiring author, bestseller, film buff, independent film-maker or Hollywood bigwig, then London Book and Screen Week 9- 15th April offers opportunities for […]
Believe it or not today is National Chicken Wing Day. Who says so? What are the prerequisites for National Day status? That remains a mystery but what remains crystal clear is there are some award-winning chicken wing outlets out there who will give Colonel Sanders a run for the money. We’ve pitted one in the […]
The government defeated in the courts by Client Earth as their clean air plan falls short. With four members of environmental activists Stop Killing Londoners jailed a few months back for spray-painting Cut Air Pollution on City Hall, it’s been a busy year for environmental activists and the government tussling over London’s high pollution levels. […]
The White Cube Gallery recently launched two exhibitions by different artists but both on the same day to stamp their intent on a competitive February art calendar. Catch Andreas Gursky’s large-scale photograph Ruckblick and also Eddie Peake’s Concrete Pitch which brings together intestinal-like sculpture, gallery wall glory holes and brightly coloured neon-lit paintings.
WHAT’S HOT LONDON? magazine has introduced it’s first priced edition! The magazine sets out to give value by providing curated high quality editorial content in the form of news, features, reviews and articles reflecting London city and society which is deserving of a pricing which marks out that value. Impressive readership stats have also convinced […]
SELFRIDGES has teamed up with BXR London, which describes itself as the world’s first high end boxing gym, to organise an in-store boxing residency throughout February. BXR is the gym where Anthony Joshua trains and he’s also on the membership committee responsible for rubber-stamping this boxing pop up. This Lamyland residency is the brainchild of […]
THE RISE ART PRIZE at House of Vans, Waterloo yesterday evening drew together an impressive line up of judges, Gavin Turk and Fiona Banner among them, to do justice to the equally impressive 26 shortlisted artists competing for the £10,000 prize. This international crop of painters, photographers and sculptors survived the cull of the 2,300 […]
WHAT’S HOT LONDON? magazine is out and about capturing the craziness that makes our capital city great! We catch an open air barber at work. His salon is the whole of Trafalgar Square! Not bad business space if you can get it. Remember what they say – Location, Location, Location!
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
