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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

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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. […]

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
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London’s Most Successful Football Clubs Revealed
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Of Suicide & A Tragic Love Life: Poet Percy Shelley’s Death Anniversary
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Born in Horsham, Sussex and educated at Eton, poet Percy Shelley’s links with London inevitably involved his tangled love life. And if you ever go boating on The Serpentine Lake, Hyde Park you’ll notice no heritage signs warning you of a tragic death in those watery depths. It happened two hundred years ago and is […]
Elizabeth Young on Age Defying Clubbing
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Club promoter Elizabeth Young recently enjoyed success in attracting US soul singer Jocelyn Brown to her 80s night at the Edge Nightclub, Norbury where she performed crowd’s favourite Somebody Else’s Guy during her half hour set. She now shares her views on the changing and ailing nightclub scene and how she believes it can be […]
Zinovy Zinik’s Book Launch
Posted in: Books, Highlights, People, Photos

Distinguished broadcaster Zinovy Zinik combined a sound installation, graphic art exhibition and lengthy audience chat at his book launch for ‘Sounds Familiar or the Beast of Artek’ at The Horse Hospital, Russell Square. His offbeat horror novel draws its inspiration from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Notably, Mary Shelley also wrote Frankenstein on this day in 1816 […]
An Interview with Sculptor Michael Sandle: Now and Then
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Describing himself as a radical traditionalist, (a label pinned on him by art historian Marco Livingstone) world renowned British sculptor Michael Sandle pulls no punches in this interview with What’s Hot London?’s Eddie Saint-Jean. He doesn’t hide his distaste for contemporary art and claims that many of today’s artists cannot draw and show no interest […]
Body Architecture:Hormazd Narielwalla (Art Exhibition)
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Saatchi Art-backed artist Hormazd Narielwalla’s Chelsea exhibition had a touch of the ‘Golden Child’ about it. With the art organisation’s chief curator Rebecca Wilson in attendance and champagne glasses being filled from a seemingly limitless supply you immediately got the sense you were in the presence of an unwrapped gem there in the Foundry Gallery. […]
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 […]
Ballerina Dai Ailian: Centenary Celebration
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Dai Ailian is widely recognised as the godmother of Chinese ballet and her birth 100 years ago was celebrated with a Centenary Exhibition Launch at the Royal Academy of Dance, Battersea on May 10th. Archives & Records Manager Eleanor Fitzpatrick who curated the exhibition and author Richard Glasstone who has written a book about her […]
The Silent Children
Posted in: Books, Highlights, People

Author Amna K. Boheim shared many intriguing anecdotes about her debut novel The Silent Children during its May 5th launch at Alef Bookstores, Baker Street. Anyone who attended her ‘first chapter reading’ at Novel London back in February would have been familiar with her experiences of switching from investment banking to creative writing. Novel London are […]
Painting the Unseen
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Swedish abstract artist Hilma af Klint’s emergence as a pioneering painter mirrors the career progression of many of her predecessors who were fated to remain undiscovered till after death. However, she may have had a hand in this. She died in 1944 but asked that her work not be shown publicly till twenty years after […]

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