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...James Brown is the co-founder of Blue Mountain School, a multidisciplinary art, retail and restaurant space in Shoreditch, east London Tell us about your perfect London Saturday in the comments below....
...But James Ford isn’t a typical producer....
...A four-volume edition of John James Audubon’s celebrated Birds of America (1827-38) will be a notable rarity at this year’s Tefaf Maastricht fair, priced at $12.5mn, available through London-based rare books...
...Meg Hillier, Labour MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch, said some of her constituents were “living in the dark ages” and unable to work from home because of their broadband....
...After letting a two-bedroom flat near St James Street station bought 11 years ago for £290,000, Jonathan Stevenson is selling it with an asking price of £400,000....
...“The designers Hannah and James went for a walk around Dover and came up with the idea of something inspired by Victorian bathing tents,” he says....
...66-year-old artist, who studied at the Slade School of Art in London, was nominated for her solo exhibition “Along a Spectrum” at Spike Island, a Bristol art gallery, and the Windrush art commission in Hackney...
...A Tame Impala gig I missed in Hackney last summer. Gore Vidal drawling his way through Venice for 90 minutes. A guide to the five tones in spoken Thai. Carl Sagan’s Cosmos....
...The latter is the involvement of Jon Rotheram, Tom Harris and John Ogier of The Marksman pub on Hackney Road....
...For a long time he took pictures of Hackney Wick in east London using a plastic box camera that he bought for 50p....
...a major study on representations of the Black figure in contemporary art — and the western canon — featuring artists from across the African diaspora including Michael Armitage, Lubaina Himid and Kerry James...
...At Michelin-starred Wild Honey St James, Anthony Demetre serves a wild garlic aioli with his barbecued line-caught mackerel....
...Essentially, you know, there are 8,000 Conservative voters in my home constituency of Hackney and indeed 8,000 in my hometown Bow where I was born....
...Much of the platform’s success has been built on collaborations with designers, organisations and influencers, and most recently Somers has worked with the environmental filmmaker James Levelle....
...The triumphant heritage circus, involving all the UK’s national icons — from James Bond and dancing nurses to royalty, both blood and pop — divided the mass of the population from the rump of local miserablists...
...The Sea, The Sea (Hackney) Evelyn’s Table (West End) Kitchen Table (Fitzrovia) Aulis (Soho) Endo at the Rotunda (White City) The Sea, The Sea (Hackney) 337 Acton Mews, London E8 4EA Good for: A brilliant...
...ETO offers a simple but stylish show, directed by James Conway, which makes a plausible stab at some magic....
...In my spare time, I volunteer as a custodian of the foundation’s archive, which tells the story of the generations of Vietnamese families who passed through Hackney....
...The market for prime property in the capital extends from prime central London — Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster — to top properties in more distant districts such as Chiswick, Wimbledon, Hackney, Clapham...
...But the credentials of his team are impeccable: chef Seb Myers (P Franco, Chiltern Firehouse) will be running the kitchen, sommelier James Lewis (Lyle’s) will be overseeing the wine, and another sommelier...
...Losey was an American leftist, blacklisted in Hollywood, Pinter the intellectual Hackney bruiser. “Fabulous mix,” Fox says. “I loved it....
...While the lives of the teenage heroine and her friendship group unfold in Hackney, the towers of the City glint in plain sight from the rooftop of the block where they spend their evenings....
...Which entrepreneur became a life peer in 2009, taking the barony of “Clapton in the London Borough of Hackney”? Which town was the French state’s seat of government between 1940 and 1944?...
...The first exhibitors in the space are James Cohan gallery from New York, Commonwealth and Council from Los Angeles and Proyectos Ultravioleta from Guatemala City. All show at No 9 until October 23....
...The collection was unveiled at Colour Factory in London’s Hackney Wick in a show of support for a local music venue....
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