Starting tomorrow at 4pm, and running until 19 May Brixton’s Brick Box, home to the market’s great crêperie, is hopping along a borough to co-host the Wandsworth Arts Festival Hub 2013. And it sounds well worth a little excursion. The hub is part of this year’s bigger Wandsworth Arts Festival, and it takes the form of a giant …
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How are you spending your bank holiday weekend? If you’re below the river – though it’s barely a hop from the north either – do swing by the Southbank. All weekend there will be music, live graffiti and sporting entertainment in the form of wheel-based tricks. For you’ll be in the company of the campaigning …
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So many amazing people have lived, and amazing things happened in our city that aren’t commemorated by blue plaques or monumental architecture. And one south London building that never fails to give me a warm glow, is this unremarkable grocery shop on Cavendish Road, by Clapham Common, pictured above. This is going to take a …
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Duncan Pearce, 24, is the force behind the impressive Save Southbank Skatepark campaign that has been garnering much media attention since the space was recently threatened with relocation. In less than a month, Pearce and a network of fellow skaters and supporters of The Undercroft, as the famous skate-park, pictured above, is also known, have …
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Journalist, Nikki Spencer, explains why she started a south London club night in her 40s One day it struck me that everyone was out having fun except for me. Twenty and thirty-somethings had the pick of the capital’s clubs, under-18s had events like Underage and even little ones and their parents got to groove the …
Shane Meadows does the Stone Roses – in Brixton (and Clapham and Greenwich) “It takes time for people to fall in love with ya,” says Stone Roses frontman, Ian Brown in an interview at the height of his band’s fame. “But,” he goes on, with a flicker of a smile, “it’s inevitable.” It’s a legendary …
Worse thing anyone’s ever said to us? ‘I don’t go south of the river, luv’ Sarah Counsell and Emma Broughton have lived in and around Brixton for over 20 years. They’ve lived together in this flat for 15 years and have shared it with a variety of cats and rats. “Yes,” they say, “we know it’s …
We loved Travis Elborough’s brilliantly bizarre Wednesday Picture story yesterday about the sale, in the 1960s, of London Bridge to an Arizona oilman. Yep. Our 1831 John Rennie-built SE1 river crossing now stands in a desert resort. What we hadn’t heard, yesterday, was Cilla Black’s 1969 B-side recording of London Bridge. A lament about lost love – …
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1. Our first print advert! Oh look. That’s us, that is. Starring in our first ever print advert. Woo! The ad features in the hot-off-the-press print edition of our award-winning, BBC1 News bothering sister title, Kentishtowner, which our north London pals can get their mitts on today. And big cheer to anyone who recognises the south …
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Travis Elborough on the unlikely story of the 1960s sale of SE1’s most famous monument
