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Wednesday Picture: 59 Lyndhurst Grove – and its Britpop fame

It may look like any other end of terrace in south London but it has played a modest part in pop music history. The address, …

Film & Theatre

Film review: Last Passenger

Any commuter will sympathise with single dad Lewis (Dougray Scott) and newly single Sarah (Kara Tointon) as they endure a rowdy journey home from a …

Community

Nunhead Art Trail – meet the Skip Sisters

Artists of south east London are transforming their houses into gallery spaces for the first ever Nunhead Art Trail this weekend. The two day art …

architecture

Wednesday Picture: Open House 2013

This weekend is Open House where the public are unleashed on 830 of London’s coolest buildings and private houses. Sarah Fox picks some south London …

Community

Did you see this week’s terrifying TV drama, Blackout? It starred one of our writers, Anthony Shuster…

I think I got the job because I knew what a digital generator was. They’re more fuel-efficient – important if law and order has collapsed …

Culture

FILM Review: Hawking: a journey through his world – and south London gala screening with live Q&A

From a partying coxswain at Oxford to tabloid headlines and divorce. In true reality style, it seems nothing is off limits Say the name Stephen …

Culture

Review: City Love at the Bussey Building, Peckham ****

Lucy has developed better coping mechanisms: a five-year career plan and a paragraph of The Secret every night before bed Newcomers to the city imagine …

Community

Pinboard: Scalarama at the Cool Cat Cafe screens 60s classic Alice’s Restaurant

Cinema is having quite a moment in London this month, with lots of excellent free screenings south of the river. Not only has the 10-day Peckham …

Community

Pinboard: Ida Barr Comes to Kennington

She’s performed on Radio 4, at the Southbank Centre and at the Barbican – now the legendary rapping pensioner, Ida Barr (aka Christopher Green) is …

Community

Pinboard 5 September: free films, a garden fresh dinner and some old-school technology

Larkhall Park: The Stockwell Festival Unless you live next to Larkhall Park, you may not know that it is about to play host to Stockwell festival …