Carnival parties!

August 18, 2010

Notting Hill Carnival – the world-famous West London street party – is back in the ‘hood Sunday 29 August and Bank Holiday Monday 30 August.
Here are the hottest after-parties on our doorstep here in Kensal Green…
TO WIN a pair of tickets for the Masons on the Sunday and for the Paradise on the [...]

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Caryn Franklin – fashion hero and gardener

August 13, 2010

If you don’t know who fashion guru and TV personality Caryn Franklin is, you clearly lived on a desert island in the 80s. And you wore an old sack. Presenter of telly classic, The Clothes Show, she’s now behind style advice service How to Look Good. Most importantly she’s a local – and a very [...]

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Fine Things to be Seen

August 11, 2010

‘Fine Things to be Seen’ is at the Intervention Gallery – West London’s most interesting new public art space – until 5 September.
At the Anglican Chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery; open Saturday and Sunday 10am–4pm
Taking its title from the Chesteron poem ‘The Rolling English Road*’, the just-opened month-long show features [...]

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Watch this space

August 8, 2010

Introducing the Intervention Gallery. An English Heritage chapel in Kensal Green Cemetery that’s been given a new art-enhanced lease of life…
Here’s the TV show pitch: with the help of their friends and families culture-refuseniks are taken to the Anglican Chapel in Kensal Green Cemetery, dragged past history-steeped tombs and then locked into a [...]

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Sustainable dreams

August 6, 2010

Did you know that the Lexi Cinema sends all its profits to support the Sustainability Institute in South Africa? We have a word with Sally Wilton, founder of the unique boutique cinema…

First things first – we’re a cinema. With a pretty interesting and varied programme. We sell really nice [...]

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The Roaming Vintage Store

August 2, 2010

Saturday 7 August, Rag&Bow’s monthly women’s vintage sale at the Paradise By Way of Kensal Green is back (free entry; 12pm–5pm)
Visually engaging merchandising, continually on-trend stock and affordable prices have made this monthly vintage sale a welcome fixture on West London’s fashion calendar, with folks flocking from miles away to frock-hunt here.
Stylish, eco [...]

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Cocktails and Dreams (within dreams)

July 30, 2010

‘Inception’ at the Lexi from tonight. On Wednesday 4 August Carin hosts a special edition of the Lexi Film Club* entitled ‘Who-and-the-what-now?’ after our 7.30pm show.
Get tickets online or on 0871 704 206.

So before I went to see the much-vaunted Christopher ‘Chris’ Nolan mind-bender on Sunday night, I poured myself a stiff one and [...]

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Trading places

July 28, 2010

House swap, anyone?

Whether you’re planning a family holiday or perhaps you’re a have-laptop-can-travel freelancer who fancies a spell in a new destination, exchanging your home for someone else’s could prove the adventure of a lifetime. Or allow you to stay somewhere special with barely any pricetag. A couple of years ago I shared my tale [...]

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That’s your Lott

July 27, 2010

We chat to author Tim Lott, who lives in Kensal Green with his wife Rachael (pictured here with daughters Lydia and Esme)
What do you love about your neighbourhood?
The extraordinarily nice people who live there.
Any pet peeves?
Just silly stuff – shootings, stabbings – that kind of thing.

Describe your perfect weekend…
Breakfast at Gracelands, lunch [...]

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Cornershop Cuisine… In Tokyo

July 23, 2010

Jon tries – and fails – to inspire us with ingredients picked up from a far-flung foray…
Hello! It’s been ages, hasn’t it? Where have I been? Funny you should ask; mainly losing my mind on prescription medicine in Tokyo hotel rooms. Seriously. For days on end. I think I might have developed a split personality. [...]

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