Archive for January, 2010

The Evening Standard notes a potential harbinger of commercial conformity on Portobello Road, as chain retailer AllSaints opens a new store on that most ramshackle of markets. The ‘street where the riches of ages are sold’ is a place of barrows and stalls, of small …

Just five games after he took the job, Queens Park Rangers boss Paul Hart has left the club “by mutual consent”, in the cliched nomenclature of football management, and will be temporarily replaced by assistant Mick Harford. Relations between the manager and certain of the …

Two-sevenths of poetry group Aisle 16 (and the founder members, no less) started their run of shows at The Old Red Lion in Angel this week. Both Luke Wright and Ross Sutherland investigate themes of ambition and identity in two back to back shows: Wright …

Three people have been arrested in connection with the murder of the Handbag Thief Hero. A Bow teenager was seriously injured in a gang fight last night. We haven’t heard the last of Gary McKinnon, as a judicial review is granted. The Blackwall Tunnel is …

By yuki Danceworks are doing another open day to cash in on all those new year’s resolutions and get you trying out dance styles you never thought of before. Turn up on Sunday 24th January and give a whole range of dance and fitness classes …

production photo by Tristram Kenton The producers of Legally Blonde The Musical played a long game with five weeks of previews to build a popular word-of-mouth and social media following – and a £2 million review-proof advance – before press night. Broadsheet critics today retaliated …

Still from Meet the Head of Juan Pérez The leading lights of what critics lazily dubbed the Mexican ‘Buena Onda’, or New Wave — names like Alejandro González Iñárritu (Babel), Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men), and Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy) — have migrated to the …

Do your New Year’s Resolutions include seeing more of London’s fantastic cultural events? Then you should catch Every Good Boy Deserves Favour: a play for actors and orchestra at the National Theatre, and kill two birds with one stone. Strapped for time and cash? Well, …

Stalking The Kings Speech film crew in Walworth by cloudy images Tonight: South East London Folklore Society meets for the first time this year and take a tour of the City, starting at the Royal Exchange at 7.30pm. Wrap up warm for an on-the-hoof introduction …

Image / ova ham We mentioned this briefly yesterday, but it’s such a beautiful image we had to draw your attention to it again. The Olympic site has been undergoing work to make its infrastructure more secure – power lines are now underground, and cyber …