Review: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, at Young Vic Theatre
Kathryn Hunter in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo [Ellie Kurttz] IN September 2003, while guarding Baghdad Zoo,…
City of London kick out independent Heath cafes – and hand them to Daisy Green chain
Thousands of Heath users signed a petition calling for the long-standing operators to keep their businessses HAMPSTEAD Heath…
Bring back the CS11 Superhighway? Calls for fresh ‘gyratory’ plan in Swiss Cottage
The plans for Swiss Cottage which were cancelled in 2019 CYCLE safety measures that were axed after a…
Michael White’s classical news: London Guitar Festival; Shostakovich; Peregrine Voices; Errolyn Wallen
Helen Charlston [Benjamin Ealovega] THE world of the guitar always feels like a self-contained department of classical music,…
‘People remember the moquette – even if they don’t know they do’
Andrew Martin, author of The Moquette Mystery MAY Mitton lives in a small bedsit near England’s Lane, Belsize…
‘They go from woman to woman and you wonder, wouldn’t it be easier for them to just get a job?’
Lisa Jewell POPULAR Swiss Cottage crime writer Lisa Jewell’s tense psychological thriller about a serial con artist has…
‘Stella did not achieve the recognition or success in her lifetime her work deserves’
A self-portrait by Stella Magarshack THE craft that goes into the works by Stella Magarshack shows a lifetime…
Shopkeeper Abdul – one of the biggest hearts in London
like this and boil water and a bit of honey. “They come back and say ‘wow that was…
Review: Every Brilliant Thing, at @Soho Place
Lenny Henry in Every Brilliant Thing [Helen Murray] FIRST presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014, this…
‘I’m not popular in Japan, so I’m surprised to be in a bookshop in London’
Asako Yusuki, centre, signing copies of Butter in Piccadilly Waterstones last week HERS has been the name on…