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Southwark Playhouse is the biggest and most populist of London’s fringe theatres, and also in many ways one of the hardest to keep up with. Deep breath: the ‘original’ venue has already moved twice in its lifetime: once in 2006, and […]
South London is reclaiming its roadsides. In an exciting move, Lambeth Council has just launched a new ‘kerbside strategy’ to reclaim kerbsides as public spaces and ‘de-clutter’ its roadsides, Brixton Buzz has reported. Currently, 94 percent of the borough’s kerbsides (the bit of the […]
After a beautiful return to its home in Victoria Park last year, Time Out fave Field day is back in 2023. It’s just announced the first wave of acts for this year’s festival, and it’s looking to be a stonker. […]
The world has been gripped by Yayoi Kusama fever for years now. The 93-year-old Japanese artist is everywhere, and everyone’s cashing in: fans queue day and night for her exhibitions; the Tate’s ‘Infinity Rooms’ are sold out months in advance, […]
East Londoners are cracking up at a graphic that has renamed East End tube stations in cockney, ‘as they should be’. Non-cockneys have been given schooling in the correct pronunciation of stops on the tube (‘Oxo cube’ in cockney rhyming […]
London’s full of places that, at one time or another, have been home to someone famous. And sometimes those places go up for sale – just like this one, which was once the home of none other than Margaret Thatcher. […]
West End performers are the latest Londoners to threaten a strike unless they get a pay rise, as the actors’ union Equity seeks to negotiate a rise of 17 percent this year and 10 percent next year, plus an increase in annual […]