Fed up of hearing Brixton reduced to “a single story of gangs, riots and crime”, long-time resident Stephanie Busari was inspired to highlight the many other sides to the area. The result was the very first TEDxBrixton, which took place on Saturday 13 July at Evelyn Grace Academy. The TEDx movement grew out of the TED …
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 London’s annual celebration of Bastille Day is in its sixth year. And where better to hold an event dedicated to a country with such a gastronomic heritage than in one …
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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 and Southwark are way behind both the capital and the whole country. Lambeth recycles just 27 per cent of its waste, limping along in 28th place among the boroughs, and Southwark, …
My guilty south London pleasure? The dodgy bowling alley at Elephant & Castle… don’t ask me why. I just end up there sometimes! Art school graduate Emy Gray had intended to open a cheese shop in Brixton Market. Instead “due to financial/logistical restraits” it evolved into Brixi, “a shop selling largely unnecessary but beautiful things”. …
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Brixton was going through some bad press, so I thought – let’s have an art fair and do everyone some good Even if you’ve never been to the annual Urban Art Fair, we bet Brixtonites will know about the weekend, each July, when SW2’s Josephine Avenue becomes an open-air art gallery. Ever wonder how the …
Seb Emina, aka Malcolm Eggs, is author of The Breakfast Bible and editor-at-large of The London Review of Breakfasts. He’s also a born and bred southeast Londoner. Who better to offer a guide?
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 by one of her favourite books: the 1932 edition of the New Home Encyclopaedia. “I often draw inspiration from it as it’s full of ridiculous things that make me smile,” Gabriela explains. …
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 while back). Following our feature last week on the dramatic changes afoot in London Bridge (and your chance, until 8 July, to help shape what happens there) a reader got …
My earliest south London memory? Not wanting to come here Rachel de Thample is the food editor for Abel & Cole, writing their weekly veg box recipes. She has also worked in the kitchens of Marco Pierre White and Heston Blumenthal, edited at Waitrose Food Illustrated, contributed to two Borough Market Cookbooks and written Less …
Jo Brand called Streatham ‘a shithole’, yet many of those who live here feel that the area is on the up Streatham Festival is in its 12th year and in the words of Streatham MP, Chuka Umunna, “this year is going to be the biggest and best ever.” But why does it matter? Firstly, in …
