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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With Monday’s Supreme Court meeting to rule whether the government must consult Parliament before implementing Brexit, hopefully this may spark your interest in visiting the UK’s seat of power. European tourists must be chomping at the bit to have first hand experience of the corridors of power which may have a say on their relations […]
Britain’s greatest architect Sir Christopher Wren conceived of St Paul’s Cathedral in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1666 which ravaged the capital. He drew up plans to resurrect a city which had only just recovered from the Plague, intending the cathedral as its centrepiece. Few people know that his skills were self taught […]
Jewellery-makers, photographers, artists, sculptors, printers, and earthenware craftsmen were among the variety of stall-holders showcasing their work at The Islington Contemporary Art & Design Fair which runs this weekend Nov 26-27 at The Candid Arts Trust in Angel.
Taste of London 2016 hailing itself as The World’s Greatest Restaurant Festival certainly brought together world-renowned chefs and the best of London restaurants offering samples of their latest exquisite food and drink products. Caviar champagne, wine and other gourmet delights from as far afield as Honduras ad the Far East. Not to be missed! November […]
If you didn’t catch the exhilarating South Korean horror movie Train to Busan at the cinemas recently you can always experience films from that part of the world at their indie roots – and on a more cerebral level. This film festival’s Mise-en-Scene 2 series of films was screened at the Korean Cultural Centre at […]
London has transformed throughout the centuries, at a pace that picked up dramatically during industrialisation as it became one of the world’s leading commercial centres. Throughout this period many notable painters, poets and writers tried to capture its essence in stunning works of tribute. However, the Great Artists often showed it as a barely distinguishable […]
All you amateur stargazers out there will no doubt know that today is the birthdate of Edmund Halley, the English astronomer who discovered the Halley’s Comet which is named after him. Born in 1656 in good old Haggerston, East London (Big up Hackney!) this genius of a man was also a geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist and […]
Television Comes to London was the title of a documentary aired on the world’s first television service introduced by the pioneering British Broadcasting Company (BBC) on this day Nov 2nd in 1936. A more apt title might have been BBC Brings a Television Service to the World but no matter how ground-breaking this all was its […]
You may have noticed Hollywood sci- fi film Arrival has been gaining considerable press weeks before its global release. Along with its original take on alien contact it’s also been garnering attention from the bookish crowd as well as cinema lovers because it started out as a short story (not even a novel!) by respected […]
One of the most common criticisms of horror films is they have all the gory detail and special effects down to a tee but little novelty or meaningful plot development. At first glance, South Korean horror movie Train to Busan is, when all is said and done, another zombie flick. But from the off you […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
