Upper Street

Chen Hongzhu and Liu Guanguang are but two representatives of a young and ambitious camp of contemporary Chinese artists. Both in their mid-twenties, Chen and Liu’s China is one exposed to choices and influences that earlier generations couldn’t have imagined. Products of the state’s one-child …

Lifting the curtain on London’s small, local theatres. The King’s Head Theatre situated on Upper Street in Islington was the first pub theatre to be opened in England since the days of Shakespeare. Founded in 1970 by the late Dan Crawford, when the area was …

Image by quadriman Long considered the red-headed stepchild of the borough by wealthier Islingtonites, residents of Finsbury Park have had that prejudice confirmed by a new pocket guide that virtually disowns the area. The 32-page guide, distributed free in this week’s edition of Time Out …

The industry may be collapsing around him, but newspaper seller Harendra Bhatt won’t go gently into that good night. Despite being evicted from his pitch outside Highbury & Islington station, where he’s operated for 20 years, due to Network Rail’s “cosmetic surgery” for the area, …

Any menu that includes a course called “pre dessert” is the sort of menu Londonist can appreciate. And if that menu happens to be a seven course seasonal chocolate menu dreamed up over six months of tasting and experimenting by Almeida head chef, Alan Jones, …

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Welcome to Versus, where Londonist takes like for like and decides which one is more likeable. This, our first, VERSUS post pits two Upper Street bean slingers against each other in a no holds barred Lucha Libre fight to the death. In one corner, we …

Langdon Park DLR station opened yesterday, to initially no fanfare, until Ken turned up with some free Oyster cards. Diamond Geezer has blogged in heartfelt detail about the “shiny alien mothership” lighting up a neglected, marginalised area. Langdon Park now easily links up with Canary …

Had TfL existed in his time, the great Samuel Johnson may well have amended his famous aphorism to read “a man who is bored of London needs to hop on the number 19 bus”. In its perambulation from Battersea to Finsbury Park, the 19 cuts …

Anybody who’s spent an afternoon walking around Upper Street, iBook in hand, trying to log on to Islington council’s “Technology Mile” service may smirk, but a new report says Londoners are the most wifi-happy people on the planet. According to the Wi-Fi Hotspot Index, networks …