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Photograph: Wikimedia Commons The Queens in Crouch End is one of the grandest pubs north of the river. Built as a companion piece to Green Lanes’ iconic The Salisbury between 1899 and 1902, CAMRA describes the Grade II-list venue as a ‘superb […]
Photograph: Euan Cherry/BBCUpdate: we now know a lot more about the stage play of The Traitors. Called The Traitors – Acts of Betrayal, it will run at the enormous Gillian Lynne Theatre from May 11 next year. Its big USP […]
Photograph: Shutterstock/Robert WilsonThe good thing about the West End’s large stock of relatively blandly named theatres is that there’s always something to rename after our greatest stage legends. Following in the recent footsteps of the Harold Pinter Theatre (née the Comedy […]
Image: James PotterLondon’s tube map is a design classic because its interwar creator, Harry Beck, took the then-radical step of taking the messy, wibbly-wobbly intricacies of real-life train routes and turning them into something streamlined and neat. And since he […]
Photograph: KidWe’ve been waiting for this news for a while and frankly, we’re thrilled to announce that former Mangal II chef Sertaç Dirik is opening a brand new restaurant in Soho. Dirik is joining forces with restaurateur David Carter of Oma, […]
Photograph: Kevin LakeWhen the artist Frida Kahlo was a teenager in 1920s Mexico, she was inspired by the huge, colourful new murals that were lighting up the streets. They were the post-revolutionary government’s strategy to bring the country together, by […]
Image: Rockhunter LtdThe biggest thing to hit the borough since the invention of the joss stick, the new Camden Film Quarter has just been given the go-ahead by the council. Planning permission for the massive new movie hub has been […]