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 the rest of the London population in two ways. They see the faceless angry commuters who hate each other and everything, or they see the smug couples who seem to …
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My guilty guilty pleasure? Pie, mash and liquor from Manzes, under my flat. A “Danish Croydoner” is how Sarah Maria Klitgaard describes herself. She has lived on Tower Bridge Road for the past three years – which is handy right now as, on the side from her day job as a PR, she’s busy helping …
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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 and Nunhead Free Film Festival just kicked off, but all September long there is also Scalarama, formerly Scala Forever and Scala Beyond (after the King’s Cross venue where the event …
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The produce might look unfamiliar but you’ll help keep these tropical grocers going – and come away with authentic ingredients to create a true taste of sub-Saharan Africa After a long-awaited trip to her father’s homeland this year, Sierra Leone, chef Colette Bardell returned not only with a fuller family tree, but a curiosity for …
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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 on Saturday. Slightly in the shadow of south London’s louder Brixton Splash and Lambeth Country Show, this fun little festival has tonnes to make it a day full of fun …
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Drifting in and out of my reverie came the police sirens woo-wooing down Landor Road, the gospel music rehearsals of the nearby Pentecostal church, and above all, the cricket Grant Gordon is a musician, BBC radio broadcaster and writer. He played drums and bass in The Divine Comedy, and his first book Cobras in the Rough, about playing golf …
I call south-east London, round the bend of the river, ‘Costa del Thames’ Former music PR and devoted Deptfordite, Caffy St Luce, has been a Love Pirate for the last ten years. A what? “It broadly covers managing events and artists, creative promotion and development – and waging ‘funshine’,” explains Caffy. “I moved to Deptford …
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Peckham: Rye Lane inspires a fashion range Walworth: a farewell party for re:store Stockwell: Canton Arms chef does good over the river Bermondsey: Wherehouse art show Nunhead: The Corner Pop-Up Gallery Words: Kate Burt & Sarah Fox
Bookings opened yesterday for the much-hyped Union Street Cafe, the new joint venture between Gordon Ramsay and the chef’s new bessie pal, David Beckham. Becks has already been spotted visiting the SE1 site, pictured below – so perhaps we’ll be seeing more of him locally. But when the nation’s favourite footballer isn’t hanging out in …
Top 5: Hangouts for David Beckham in and around Union Street Read More »
Imagine south London got all the stations? And what do our tube stops ‘taste’ of? Read on…
