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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Football is comfortably the most popular sport in the English capital. London boasts a string of leading professional football clubs – 17 to be precise. In the 2023/24 Premier League, seven of the 20 top-flight clubs are situated within Greater London. Which London clubs have been the most successful in their respective histories? Below, we’ll […]
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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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Audio technology dominates at the second annual Indulgence Show in Hammersmith but expect classic cars on show as well as products as diverse as rockstar portraits and Surrey honey. There are three floors and much of it devoted to speaker systems and sound/music products for the refined ear and lots of helpful assistants providing demonstrations […]
Arts organisation Poet in the City celebrated National Poetry Day, September 28th with a programme of events which closed with spoken word and music performances in front of the Sir John Betjeman statue at St Pancras International Station. The theme this year was Freedom with particular reference to the freedom to travel and the plight […]
TODAY, Sept 26, is the opening day of the HighTide Festival 2017, the first of its kind in London with Walthamstow the preferred location in the capital. There will be 12 days of live performance ranging from cabaret to theatre. A temporary theatre called The Mix has been set up in Festival Square, Walthamstow Town […]
The Sept 8-11 TVL in London Festival celebrating Tel Aviv culture was met with protests over the weekend. Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions activists gathered at the Roundhouse venue in Camden where most of the events were based and verbally clashed with pro-Israel individuals. Festival director Marc Worth is a British philanthropist and also one of […]
THE LONDON BRIDGE CITY SUMMER FESTIVAL 2017 bring open air theatre to the capital by way of Ancient Greece, with the staging of The Odyssey at The Scoop. Production company Gods and Monsters stage Homer’s epic for a month at this sunken ampitheatre along the River Thames, the proximity to the river a perfect setting […]
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 […]
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.
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. […]
THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE celebrates outstanding works of fiction written in the English language and published in the UK. The recently published longlist of 13 books emerged from 144 hopefuls who submitted from 1 October 2016 to 30 September 2017. The eventual winner of the £50,000 prize will join the 52 other notable authors who […]
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 […]
Hillary Clinton Graffiti/Painting Shoreditch By Street Artist Pegasus
