What’s Hot Marylebone? From Sherlock Holmes’ Baker Street to boujee French cuisine, we track the cultural and foodie delights of Marylebone. We discovered a streetful of antique shops as well as high-end boutiques, indie bookshops and backstreet art galleries. But which are our chosen hotspots? So, What’s Hot Marylebone? Madame Tussauds It doesn’t take […]
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London’s combat sports scene is a chance to experience the excitement and challenge of physical and strategic games in the beating heart of the UK. Whether you are a seasoned enthusiast or a newcomer eager to learn, the capital’s diverse offerings cater to all skill levels and interests. From traditional martial arts to modern […]
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Frieze Week: Man in underpants found wandering around Regents Park! If you are visiting Regents Park to catch Frieze Sculpture 2023, it’s likely you’ll also catch sight of a half-naked man wandering around the sculpture site in a dazed state. Indeed, last week from afar it looked as if park security had finally cornered […]
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Fresh from her successful role as Laureline in recent movie Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets comes Cara Delevingne’s latest creative venture – her 368-page novel Mirror Mirror, co-written with Rowan Coleman and published by Trapeze. Judging by her performance in Luc Besson’s sci-fi flick, she has undoubted talent but English fiction writing […]
The Africa Centre Summer Festival 2017 in Southwark over the weekend featured three live stages with bands and DJs as well as street food stalls – and even the art, craft and fashion pop-ups had an African flavour.
THE POETRY OF PLACE exhibition, 17 August – 16 September brings together UK and Japanese artists working in print. Curated by the Wyllie O Hagan team and Rebecca Marcus-Monks at the Koppel Project, Baker Street, it focuses on the theme of place and presents different approaches to capturing the essence of environment. The curators felt […]
Author Mike McCormack is the odds-on favourite to win the Booker Prize with a 244 page novel made up of just one sentence – and it doesn’t have any full stops. He was born in London in 1965 but moved back to his parents’ homeland of Ireland where his fifth book Solar Bones is based. […]
BRITAIN’S most famous clock tower is to fall silent until 2021 while urgent repairs are completed but here are a few interesting facts about this popular Westminster tourist attraction that looms over the Houses of Parliament. The bell was cast in Stockton-on-Tees 161 years ago this same month, weighing in at a formidable 16 tons. […]
44 YEARS AGO today a new sound called hip hop was born when legendary New York DJ Kool Herc held one of his block parties, mixed a couple of tracks together and kick-started a musical revolution. The exact address was 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, Bronx, New York, the date August 11 1973 and back then the […]
It was a musical weekend with a choice of Blues and Country music at two major music festivals across town. The drizzling rain certainly didn’t deter Londoners from thronging in thousands. 1. The Ealing Blues Festival The Ealing Blues Festival at Walpole Park is part of the Ealing Summer Festival, a carnival of sorts with […]
Whether you’re losing weight for your summer hols, just after general fitness or a potential Mo Farah there are many run clubs you can commit to for jogging stints around the capital. The distances vary from 1 mile to 10k and with no cap on experience. So beginners get out those running shoes because regardless […]
The South London-based Tea House Theatre has recently come under fire for a condescending job advert for an Office Administrator, which asked whether Millennials understood the real world and pointing out the commitments required of them now they had left full-time education. The company had advertised the same position three times and was unimpressed with […]
FOR ALL those who believe modern art is rubbish just what will you make of a new London art gallery set up in a yellow building site skip? Not an enlarged building-sized version but an actual one. They’ll struggle to fit in the art works let alone the gallery attendants, but London-based artists Catherine Borokowski […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
