While you were watching events in North Korea and waiting for snow, what news did you miss in West Hampstead? Open and shut caseThe biggest local news even became a UK trending topic on Twitter for a while. The Luminaire, … Continue reading →
Between royal wedding plans and Irish bailouts, what has been happening in the ‘hood Big news first: The big local tweet-up/hyperlocal get together is on December 2nd at The Lion on West End Lane. We have an area reserved at the … Continue reading →
Kilburn High Road gets into the festive spirit on December 3rd. With Glenda, and everything
Continue reading →The redoubtable Annie Mole, whose Going Underground blog is one of London’s finest, today posted a photo of yet another tube map mashup. We’ve had lots of these of late – puns on film titles, anagrams, movies shot in the … Continue reading →
While you were rioting on Millbank and watching landmark events in Burma, what was the news closer to home? Politics The Guardian ran a gloomy piece on the impact of cuts based on an unnamed inner London borough. Could it … Continue reading →
Rings Pizza & Kebab shop has finally reopened as Wood Grill House (in what must have been one of the slowest ever refits of a kebab shop to a kebab shop). Local kebab fans Blake and Jess popped in last … Continue reading →
Barraco will never be somewhere that picks up much passing trade. From whichever way you approach it, it takes a leap of faith to believe that there’s going to be any commercial businesses at all, let alone a half-decent restaurant … Continue reading →
If Martin Scorsese collaborated with Tennessee Williams, you might end up with something like Gary Lennon’s superb .45. Set in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen in 1977, this play bristles with sexual tension, moral ambiguity hangs thickly in the air, and … Continue reading →
As soon as you walk into Waitrose’s gleaming new cookery school, it’s clear they’ve splashed the cash. I went along to the Finchley Road branch, above which the school is located, to find out whether aspiring home cooks should do … Continue reading →
So we had tube strikes, media strikes and fireworks, but what’s got you excited this week (apart from the fully functioning Jubilee Line this weekend of course)? OoooooohThere was a bank robbery in Willesden Green. A Kilburn councillor discussed how … Continue reading →
