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What’s Hot Battersea?
Posted in: Bars & Clubs, Concerts & Gigs, Drama & Theatre, Food & Dining, Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Reviews, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Battersea, Battersea Park, Battersea Pier, Battersea Power Station, London Peace Pagoda, The Pump Gallery, Tunman Thai Restaurant
Westminster, Parliament & Politics
Posted in: Highlights Tags: Andy Burnham, Brexit, electorate, History, Keir Starmer, Labour party, London, Makerfield by-election, May local elections, Nigel Farage, Parliament, politics, Reform, UK Prime Minister, voting
Little Venice
Posted in: Bars & Clubs, Concerts & Gigs, Drama & Theatre, Events & Festivals, Food & Dining, Highlights Tags: Browning's Pool, Canal Cafe Theatre, Canals, IWA Canal Cavalcade, Little Venice, Lord Byron, Paddington Basin, Rembrandt Gardens, Robert Browning, Truman Capote, Waterside Cafe, West London
Bethnal Green
Posted in: Drama & Theatre, Food & Dining, Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Bethnal Green, cafe, Colombia Road Flower Market, E Pellicci, East End, East London, foodie, Gallery Cafe, Museums, Tower Hamlets, Victoria and Albert Museum, Young V&A
AI and Robotics
Posted in: Editorial, Highlights, Technology Tags: AI, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Super Intelligence, Elon Musk, employment, Generative AI, job loss, quantum computing, robotics, robots, the economy
London’s Music Venues
Posted in: Bars & Clubs, Concerts & Gigs, Highlights Tags: business rates, Cart & Horses, dublin castle, fiddlers elbow, hope and anchor, Iron Maiden, live music, London music venues, London pubs, music venue association, night time industries association, Pubs, water rats pub
New Year, New You!
Posted in: Food & Dining, Galleries & Museums, Highlights, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Fortnum & Mason, Museums, New Year, Olympic Park Waterglades, Piccadilly, Restaurants, Tate Modern, V&A
Sur-REEL & Uncanny Film Fest
Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights, Movies & TV Shows Tags: experimental film, film festival, filmmaking, independent film, indie film, short films, Sur-REEL& Uncanny Film Fest, Surrealism, The Uncanny

Freelancing in London? Here’s What You Need to Know

Posted in: Features, People

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. […]

Gauguin in London
Posted in: Features, Galleries & Museums, Shows & Exhibitions Tags: Art, British Museum, Camille Pissaro, Courtauld Gallery, Kew Gardens, National Gallery, Paul Gauguin, Post-Impressionism, South Seas, Synthetism, Tahiti
London Place Names
Posted in: Features, Places Tags: Barbican, Londinium, london history, London place names, River Fleet, Roman fort, Roman history, Roman London
Exploring London’s Thriving Combat Sports Scene: From Paintball to Historical Reenactments
Posted in: Events & Festivals, Features
London’s Most Successful Football Clubs Revealed
Posted in: Features, Sports & Fitness

Fitz Fest
Posted in: Concerts & Gigs, Events & Festivals, Highlights

The Fitzrovia area of Central London, encompassing the City of Westminster and much of Camden, celebrated its annual Fitz Fest music festival using venues not typically associated with classical music. World renowned musicians performed Mozart’s Wind Serenade in C Minor in the Darren Baker Gallery on Charlotte Street. A pretty off-kilter venue, you’ll agree. It’s […]
Hackney Downs Open Studios After Party
Posted in: Highlights, Photos, Places

Hackney Downs Studios, a renowned creative hub for artists, illustrators, record labels, prop-makers and designers, held its Open Studios After Party with DJs, installations and projections as well as food and drink. Cocktail flavoured ice lollies anyone?
A Duel of the Museums: Jack the Ripper Museum vs East End Women’s Museum
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Highlights

An East End duel between The Jack the Ripper Museum in Whitechapel and the recently opened pop-up museum East End Women: The Real Story near Shadwell played out in the national press only when there was a hint of confrontation. Not the type of publicity either would have sought but emotions run high where the […]
Soulful Omar
Posted in: Concerts & Gigs, Highlights

BRITISH SOUL STAR Omar widely known for his stand out 1992 rare-groove fusion hit There’s Nothing Like This took the stage at The Den, 100 Wardour Street with the crowd anxiously anticipating his appearance even while the musicians went through their tuning rituals. For many of his faithful fans memories of his 90s heyday signed […]
The Orwell Prize 2016
Posted in: Books, Events & Festivals, Highlights, Photos

Novelist George Orwell’s work left a lasting impact on post-1950s Britain and the prize in his name attended by his son Richard Blair (in photo) and grandchildren honoured that legacy of outstanding political writing. Arkady Ostrovsky won the biggest award on the night for his book The Invention of Russia, an investigation into media manipulation […]
Voices of Africa: A Selection of African Short Films
Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights, Movies & TV Shows

This series of Shorts On Tap’s programme of international short films screened at the BFI, Southbank on May 25th focused on the African continent. BFI Future Film and the inShort Film Festival were also involved in making the event happen and the audience were treated to a screening of five short films, also Q & […]
The London Photo Festival 2016
Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights

Running from 19 to 21st May The London Photo Festival brings together a diverse collection of work ranging from filtered and reworked pieces that look more like oils and water colours to more traditional photography. Although a London-based festival it attracted work from all over the world, sometimes capturing significant social and political events as […]
Third Tuesdays’ Jazz Blow Live Nights
Posted in: Bars & Clubs, Concerts & Gigs, Highlights

Given half a chance every wannabe musician would probably charm you with stories about how they hung around the instrument shops on Denmark Street off Charing Cross Road trying out all the latest kit and annoying the sales assistants by jamming loudly in-store like they were the next Miles Davis or Jimi Hendrix in waiting. […]
Derek Bates’ Shadows In The Wall
Posted in: Books, Highlights, People, Photos

Derek Bates held a reading of his second novel Shadows in the Wall at Daunt Books, Hampstead with a Q & A and open discussion about whether capitalist democracy is truly representational. His book touches upon this theme with lead character journalist Jake Dearsey picking up on the ghostly murmurs of political and religious intrigue […]
Britain’s Youngest Gallery Owner’s Launch Party
Posted in: Galleries & Museums, Highlights, People, Photos

Britain’s youngest gallery owner Morgane Wagner launched her Square Gallery with much wine and fanfare on May 12th. It must surely have been the Art Party of the Year. It was so packed you couldn’t even see the paintings with people standing outside. Named after Battersea Square where it is located, it showcased the best […]

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