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The rescheduled Meeting of Styles graffiti block party is this Saturday

Preview: Meeting of Styles Graffiti Festival Returns

Free, family friendly graffiti festival just behind Holloway Road station.

Map of exhibiting venues. Click to go to the interactive version.

Islington Exhibits: Over 100 Artists At 70 Venues

In which Archway becomes the centre of the art universe.

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Islington Lifts Barbecue Ban

In a move almost certain to herald the start of a long, soggy summer in North London, Islington Council has revoked a ban on barbecues in public places.

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Opera Review: The Coronation of Poppea @ The King’s Head

Ferocious lust, ruthless ambition and violent murder is the order of the day in Mark Ravenhill’s production

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Help Save Highbury Roundhouse

OK, it’s not actually round but this Victorian building in N5 has been a thriving community centre for 40 years.

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Live Music Preview: Josh T. Pearson at the Union Chapel

The country/folk singer re-emerges with his first studio work in a decade and a special show at the Union Chapel.

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Extra Extra

Banned cricket, unfaithful swans, Lebanese loops: it’s all happening around town today. Click through to catch up.

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Book Review: The Canal by Lee Rourke

A novel about boredom involving an intensive study of the stretch of canal linking Hackney and Islington.

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Lost Musicals Return for 2011

The excellent Lost Musicals seasons returns to Sadler’s Wells this summer with The Band Wagon, Coco and Mexican Hayride.

The London Art Fair at the Islington Business Centre

Review: London Art Fair 2011

Last night, the preview evening of the 23rd annual London Art Fair opened the doors of the Islington Business Design Centre to several hundred well-heeled art lovers who were able to enjoy a vast selection of modern and contemporary, mostly British art.

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A Plaque Commemorating A Father Ted Character?

Is this the inspiration behind the foul-mouthed priest, Father Jack Hackett, from Father Ted?