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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

Sept 22: A Duel in Hoxton, East London! Westminster Playwright Kills Actor! (in 1598)
Posted in: Features, People Tags: Elizabethan duel

The Kray Twins ruled the Hoxton area with a rod of iron in the 1960s but none so notorious as the Elizabethan dueling thespians Ben Jonson (playwright) and Gabriel Spenser (actor) who dished out their own brand of violence on that fateful day on Sept 22nd 1598. Jonson was a distinguished playwright, poet and literary […]
London at Night: Shaftesbury Avenue
Posted in: Features, People, Photos, Places Tags: artist, Shaftesbury Avenue

A STREET ARTIST on Shaftesbury Avenue in the West End chats to a passer by while trying to pull in customers. His painting of Bob Marley in the foreground a prominent sign of his talent and acting as a portrait sized calling card. Photo (above) by Eddie Saint-Jean, title photo by Pedro Szekely via Flickr […]
Fashion Focus
Posted in: Events & Festivals, Highlights, People, Photos

Fashion Snap of the Week An attorney from the Cayman Islands, who prefers to keep his identity undisclosed, attends London Ethnic’s Big Fashionista Party and Fashion Showcase at the Roof Gardens, Kensington in a very regal looking outfit including white silk tie and paisley jacket. The gold tipped leather shoes complete the eye-catching outfit. Party-goers […]
Mirror Mirror – Cara Delevingne’s New Novel for Teenagers
Posted in: Books, Highlights, Movies & TV Shows, People Tags: Cara Delevingne, novel

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 […]
Aug 16 1743: Jack Broughton Introduces 1st Official Boxing Rules
Posted in: Features, People, Sports & Fitness Tags: Boxing, History

ON THIS DAY in 1743 English bare-knuckle fighter Jack Broughton began staging boxing exhibitions in an ampitheatre on Hanway Rd, near Oxford Street. It eventually became the largest of its kind, making him the foremost name in the sport. He cemented this status by drawing up seven rules, which became universally applied before the Marquis […]
Buskers in London
Posted in: Features, People

Summer time is always a trigger for London buskers of all backgrounds and degrees of talent trying their hands before the crowds. One-man bands, magicians, jugglers, break dancers, shamrock yodas dressed in green garb on St Patrick’s Day, you name it the London crowds have probably seen it. Covent Garden is the unofficial busking centre […]
From Studio to Salon Centrepiece
Posted in: Features, People, Photos, Shows & Exhibitions

Painting Dustman from Mile End Stanislav Geissler has just celebrated having his sculpture/painting Alexander McQueen v David Bowie-The Last Dress Up as the centrepiece at the recent Salon des Refuses exhibition organised by Happenstance Framing at the Candid Arts Trust, Islington. What’s Hot London? readers can take a peek in his studios to see his […]
JHUS: Common Sense. Rising East End Star Releases Debut Album
Posted in: Highlights, People Tags: JHUS, London, rap

With 20 year-old Stratford rapper JHUS’ new album plastered all over the largest and most prominent advertising boards at Stratford Westfields, the East End faithful have been informed. The rest of London is about to catch on. He is, arguably, the most exciting and unique talent to emerge in British hip hop in recent years […]
The Independent Filmmakers Ball
Posted in: Bars & Clubs, Highlights, Movies & TV Shows, People

Cafe De Paris, Leicester Square was the place to be for the Raindance Film Festival Independent Filmmakers Ball. It was gathering of film directors, producers, screenwriters actors and the like, suited and booted and in celebratory mood. A 30s style jazz and swing band kept them entertained.
April 20th 1812: Bram Stoker Dies in London
Posted in: Books, Features, People

He’s the novelist who created the most widely known literary horror character outside of Frankenstein. Blood-sucking Count Dracula was responsible for many-a-troubled sleep with 1000 Dracula-themed books and 200 movies now available at the last count. Bram Stoker died in London on this date April 20th in 1912 aged 64 and was cremated in Golders […]

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