Archive for category: Culture

• London Green Fair in words and pictures

  This weekend’s London Green Fair (nee Camden Green Fare) saw the usual blend of activist stalls, practical help, music, fun and all topped off with not very summery weather. Taking place over both days of the weekend the fare mixes talks on “eco” topics, stuff to by, stuff to do […]

   

• Review: Be Good Revoltionaries, Ovalhouse

  My main thought leaving Be Good Revolutionaries at the Ovalhouse was that I’d  rather enjoy a play than understand it – and I certainly enjoyed this performance. Deep in the jungle a revolutionary leader’s family await his return. Reciting his sayings by rote they hope to make him happy by […]

   

• Desperate art wives

  Down at the Vibe Gallery in Southwark they are showing Desperate Art Wives who are “a group of women and artists who have been putting our “artistic needs” on hold to attend to our family and work duties, but who have also never forgotten who we really are at heart.” Apart […]

   

• What is the sex capital of London?

  The sex toy industry is bucking the recession, both glorious dips of it, with increased sales across the UK to a priapic £250 million a year. One company decided to put these sales to the service of social science and has revealed which parts of the country spent the most and […]

   

• Free Books at Tufnell Park

  Just down the road from Tufnell Park tube on Fortess Road you’ll find two “free books” shops. The concept is simple, revolutionary and not a single customer who was there while I was around actually believed it. Every year thousands of good books are pulped simply because there is no […]

   

• Number crunching: How did the left do in London?

  While we know that Labour polled very strongly in the Assembly seats (detail) and the Greens made their move forwards to third place above the Lib Dems look far easier than it was in reality (detail) these are the simply the two highest profile parties who attract left of center […]

   

• Number crunching: What about the right?

  While understandably most of the news focuses on the big winners and losers of the election here at Big Smoke we try to give you something that you’d be hard pressed to find anywhere else. So let’s take a look at the tiddlers that were swimming in the big electoral […]

   

• Urban diary: Man and Beast in Camden

  There follows a grisly tale not for the faint-hearted, be warned. Walking home from the election night celebrations I approached what looked a little like a stuffed toy lying on the pavement. Sadly, as I got closer I realised it was a very stationary cat. I was about to say […]

   

• Go green and take part in the Great British Walking Challenge

  Damien Clarkson encourages us to take part in the Great British Walking Challenge which starts today.   The Great British Walking Challenge takes place this May as part of Living Streets’ National Walking Month. We’re urging people across the country to take to their feet and see how many times […]

   

• Elections 2012: Will the negative campaigning never end?

  Well, it will end on Thursday I suppose, but it feels never ending. However, it’s not that long ago that Ken Livingstone was making an appeal to keep the election out of the gutter. As it becomes clearer that no one is particularly enthusiastic about Labour’s candidate the campaign is […]