Bank Holiday by Sheila Girling Ending this weekend is The Seamless Garment, a showcase of collages from well-known artists including Prunella Clough, John Fraser, Robert Motherwell and John McLean. Differing from the norm, these artists and others are constructing images from a wealth of materials …
We don’t like arguing with literary giants, but we have to take issue with Robert McCrum‘s prediction of an all-out fight between Notting Hill bookshops when agents Sarah Lutyens and Felicity Rubinstein open their first shop in October. The new store will specialise in fiction, …
One of the most talked-about rappers of the year, and a member of hip hop mag XXL’s Class of 2009, swaggers into Notting Hill’s Tabernacle this week. Asher Roth’s appearance in the year of Eminem’s return may be a coincidence, but the reemergence of the …
Image by araqnid Strange sightings in Ladbroke Grove: it seems that Sebastian Faulks has been out spotting “ghost buses”. The author and budding NIMBY is the focal point of local protests about bus routes serving the Westfield complex rumbling through their little burb. The cheek …
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops… Completing a trilogy of bookshops not just in Notting Hill, but on Blenheim Crescent, is the locally named Blenheim Books. You might expect a certain amount of crossover and competition between shops that are next door to one …
Londonist Film Club looks at films with one thing in common: London. Our only rule is that the films must have either the word London or a London place name in the title. Other than that, any film is fair game. Notting Hill (1999) Director: …
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops Just across the road from Books for Cooks on W11′s Blenheim Crescent is The Travel Bookshop, a place to buy guidebooks, maps, fiction, history, biography about travel and… what’s that now? The elephant over there, in the corner …
Continuing our amble round London’s independent bookshops Track off to one side of Portobello Road Market and you’ll find Blenheim Crescent, home to a trio of bookshops. The first is Books for Cooks where you’ll find a book on any type of cookery you can …
96. The Ghost Bus The belief that vehicles can appear as apparitions has long been confirmed by sightings across the capital, and the rest of the country of ghostly carriages. But to consider phantoms of modern day modes of transport seems absurd, and yet one …
Tipped by every music critic going for success this year, La Roux plays the 3rd of 4 consecutive Thursday at Notting Hill Arts Club’s Yo Yo tonight. Don’t let the French moniker confuse you, Roux is actually simple old Elly Jackson from Brixton, complete with …
Regular readers may recall our three previous appeals concerning the welfare of London’s teddy bear population. Homelessness among ursine simulacra is a growing problem, towards which the mainstream press remain studiously myopic. Sure, they’ve devoted tens of column inches to Pudsey the posterbear over the …
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