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Elizabeth Garrett
Published: 20 September, 2012
by MARTIN SHEPPARD
IN the 100 years before Virginia Woolf moved to 46 Gordon Square, in January 1905...
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Published: 13 September, 2012
Sick Unto Death” – the headline that appeared on the front page of the Ham & High the week Ruth Ellis...
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La Periodista, a one-woman play about an imprisoned journalist
Published: 13 September, 2012
by LEO GARIB
OFFICIALLY there are 160,000 Latin...
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Henry Wrong: a man with a bee in his bonnet
Published: 13 September, 2012
by ANDREW JOHNSON
The terrace of the Barbican Arts Centre is usually...
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Joshua Radin’s new album, Underwater, features musicians who have worked with some of the industry’s legends
Published: 13 September,...
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Philip Norman (left) has written a life story of Mick Jagger (right)
Published: 13 September, 2012
by PIERS PLOWRIGHT
Philip Norman had wanted to...
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Published: 6 September, 2012
You can hop on a plane or go to sea to see the world or vicariously watch the box and delve into the internet. But it...
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Two Cows at Caen Wood Hampstead’ 1797 by Julius Caesarpicture © English Heritage Archives
Published: 6 September, 2012
by DAN...
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Robin Norton-Hale
Published: 6 September, 2012
by AMY SMITH
FLOURISH
King's Head Theatre
THE King’s Head Theatre has begun the search for...
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Kano (right) Africa Express musicians prepare to leave King’s Cross (left) Picture: Simon Phipps
Published: 6 September, 2012
by ROISIN...
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Published: 6 September, 2012
Alom Shaha’s take on religion is not polemical. Yes, he is a science teacher who describes himself as a secularist...
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Noel Lynch
Published: 30 August, 2012
Dinosaur turds, ‘Devil’s Toenails’, Thatcherabilia – The Green Room has it all, as...
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George Orwell, described by John Humphreys as ‘the patron saint of the BBC’
Published: 30 August, 2012
Despite the ‘too left-wing...
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King’s Cross station pictured between 1878 and 1883 IMAGE: the national archive
Published: 30 August, 2012
A birthplace of multiculturalism,...
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Teaching dominatrices the ropes: Mistress Josephine
Published: 30 August, 2012
Before Fifty Shades of Grey, most people thought BDSM was a driving...
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Colin Farrell as Quaid in Total Recall
Published: 30 August, 2012
by DAN CARRIER
TOTAL RECALL
Directed by Len Wiseman
Certificate 12a
Rating: 3...
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Michael Palin, an instinctive traveller, went to India to witness the plight of the Dongria Khondh villagers before penning his new novel
Published:...
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Sir Roger Casement
Published: 16 August, 2012
The remarkable odyssey of a heroic revolutionary who fought to protect Africa from exploitation ended...
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Finsbury Park dance and sports coach Everett Jervis with Tommie Smith at the Camden Centre
Published: 16 August, 2012
by JOHN GULLIVER
I ROSE from...
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Top: Noel Gallagher performing at Dingwalls
Bottom: The Oasis star being interviewed for Xfm
Published: 16 August, 2012
by RICHARD OSLEY
FOR a...
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Published: 16 August, 2012
by DAN CARRIER
The Expendables II
Directed by Simon West
Certificate 12a
Rating: 3 Out Of 5 Stars
THIS film is so...
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ET Laing
Published: 9 August, 2012
by SIMON WROE
As travel writers go, Edward Temperley Laing (or Ted, as he prefers) is unusual.
He does not...
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Henry V at Old Red Lion Theatre
Published: 9 August, 2012
by MICHAEL STEWART
HENRY V
Old Red Lion Theatre
Tony Blair as Henry V?
The invasion of...
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Julien Temple
Published: 9 August, 2012
by DAN CARRIER
He calls it “the first truly global metropolis in history” – a sprawling,...
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Deliliah
Published: 9 August, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB
At 12, Delilah was pushed onstage at the Jazz Cafe in Camden Town by a family friend, where...
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Rosalind Franklin at work in the laboratory
Published: 9 August, 2012
by LEWIS WOLPERT
Rosalind Franklin became a famous scientist – mainly...
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Published: 2 August, 2012
If you have a hat, take it off and salute Christopher Doran of Indiana University, and Pluto Press of Archway Road, for...
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Published: 2 August, 2012
This September will be the 50th anniversary of Arnold Wesker’s arts project, Centre 42, which was financed by the TUC...
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Published: 2 August, 2012
If you’ve ever found yourself lost in the middle-class citadel of the Barbican and wondered how Europe’s...
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Big Kids – Mr Hudson and Rosie Oddie – are set to play at the Standon Calling festival this weekend
Published: 2 August, 2012
by ROISIN...
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Published: 2 August, 2012
by DAN CARRIER
Directed by Julien Temple
Certificate 15
Rating: 4 Out Of 5 Stars
The Olympic Games opening ceremony is a...
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Published: 26 July, 2012
by DAN CARRIER
Is it a global advert for London, a cheap way of doing up the East End, a moneymaker for a stagnant economy...
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Cornelius McCarthy in 1936
Published: 26 July, 2012
by JOHN O'COURTNEY O'CONNOR
“I could have been a contender,” said Terry...
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Published: 26 July, 2012
Stories of budget over-runs, transport restrictions and massive security arrangements inevitably stir unreliable...
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Kelly Smith in action at the Euro 2009 final against Germany
Published: 26 July, 2012
by CATHERINE ETOE
When Kelly Smith was a teenager she would...
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Ashley Bashy Thomas and soap actress Michelle Ryan in The Man Inside
Directed by Dan Turner
Certificate 18
Rating: 2 Out Of 5 Stars
Published: 26...
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Published: 19 July, 2012
by GERALD ISAAMAN
Distilling The Frenzy – it’s a fabulous title for our tough and upsetting times that are...
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Published: 19 July, 2012
by ANGELA COBBINAH
It stands like an outpost amid a sea of change, a small wooden shack serving teas for 45p in a street...
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Published: 19 July, 2012
Art Galleries and Museums
Whitechapel Gallery
The gallery is running a series of events for young people over the summer...
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Bruce ‘The Boss’ Springsteen performing at Hard Rock Calling
Published: 19 July, 2012
by ROISIN GADELRAB and TRISTAN HARPER
WHAT Hard...