Culture
Wednesday Picture: John Hinde’s South London Postcards
As a new exhibition opens, featuring the photography behind Britain’s most recognisable postcards from the 1960s and 70s, Kate Burt looks at the appeal of …
Review: Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down at the White Bear Theatre
For a play with a cast of just three women, Richard Cameron’s award-winning Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down is full of men. Adored fathers, lost childhood …
Pinboard 25 July: Theatrical goings-on in Nunhead Cemetery, SE1 sing-alongs, SE5 knees-ups and the return of the Brixton Bolt
Nunhead: Immersive drama in the cemetery If you like your theatre immersive, and have the nerve to spend the evening in a cemetery – then …
A wander through Camberwell’s theatrical history
SE5 once thronged with music halls and attracted big-name celebrities to live locally, says Michael Armstrong
Review: The American Plan, St James Theatre
A sharp right hook to the mores and morals of America’s gilded mid-century It’s a hot summer in the Catskill Mountains, some time in the …
Pinboard 18 July: a tour of south London’s vanishing prefabs, Italian afternoon cocktails in the market and – ta-da! – our very own art exhibition (well… kinda)
Brixton (and Catford): Palaces for the People – last chance to see and guided estate tour There are still two or so weeks to see …
Free Weekend: Have a French holiday (without leaving south London)
With more French people living in here than in Bordeaux, Nantes and Strasbourg, London is technically France’s sixth biggest city. No surprise, then, that south …
Pinboard 9 July: shopping in the sunshine, affordable fine dining and a free show featuring rubbish as art
1. Lambeth North: Artists celebrate innovative recycling Did you know we were shoddy recyclers? Nope, we thought we were pretty good too but apparently* Lambeth …
Pinboard 4 July 2013: Bad boys do good, the Royal Court’s return to Peckham and an exciting addition to SW9
Camberwell: Sheep’s Brains and Fried Cucumbers Strange name for an art exhibition? Not when you know that the artwork, by southeast Londoner Gabriela Szulman, was inspired …
Wednesday Picture: The Fat Cat of Southwark
As you may know, we love a good street cat story (you may remember the one about the Banksy-esque stencil of Brixton’s Hitler cat, a …
