Review: Princess Essex – The Globe

Review: Princess Essex – The Globe

Michael HollandSep 20, 2024

A good play that allows Odeke to promote the working-class and womanhood Anne Odeke’s Princess Essex opens with the staff of well-to-do Mrs Bugle…

Shaparak Khorsandi takes Scatterbrain on tour to Blackheath Halls this October

Shaparak Khorsandi takes Scatterbrain on tour to Blackheath Halls this October

Eliza FrostSep 19, 2024

The comic talks to Eliza Frost about how ‘serious’ can be funny, changing culture and why this is her ‘most authentic’ show yet “Scatterbrain is the most…

Exploding Heads Present: Colin From Portsmouth

Exploding Heads Present: Colin From Portsmouth

Michael HollandSep 19, 2024

2024 will see the first live outing for two cult heroes with their fingers on the nation’s pulse: angry-about-everything Colin from Portsmouth and former-professional-footballer-turned-current-pundit…

From Borough Market to Hollywood

From Borough Market to Hollywood

Michael HollandSep 19, 2024

Can Jeff Goldblum Make Dreams Come True? Bebe Barry was born in Guy’s Hospital and grew up in Borough Market – The Wheatsheaf pub,…

Review: The Truth About Harry Beck – London Transport Museum

Review: The Truth About Harry Beck – London Transport Museum

Michael HollandSep 19, 2024

Harry Beck was a draughtsman in the Signalling Department at London Transport whose job it was to create diagrams that simplified electrical circuits, but…

Slippage at 198

Slippage at 198

Michael HollandSep 19, 2024

198 Contemporary Arts and Learning is staging a new exhibition ‘Slippage: the Caribbean in Flux’ with new bodies of work by four of the…

Dare to Cross the Devil’s Dancefloor

Dare to Cross the Devil’s Dancefloor

Michael HollandSep 18, 2024

“We do not take the journey; the journey takes us.”  This month sees the world premiere of The Ice at the End of the…

‘Elderly targeted on Eltham High Street with one woman having close to £2K in cash taken’

‘Elderly targeted on Eltham High Street with one woman having close to £2K in cash taken’

South London shoppers are ‘wary’ of using their high street because pickpockets are snatching phones and purses from locals on a regular basis. Residents…

New Labour MP refuses to give up his council seat

New Labour MP refuses to give up his council seat

Ben LynchSep 17, 2024

A new London MP will not be giving up his seat on a local council and will juggle both roles, though he’s said he…

Have you been wrongly issued with Ulez charges due to vandalised cameras?

Have you been wrongly issued with Ulez charges due to vandalised cameras?

Drivers who have been wrongly issued with Ulez charges due to vandalised enforcement cameras will have their penalties cancelled, Transport for London (TfL) has…

New Stories From Local Author

New Stories From Local Author

Michael HollandSep 17, 2024

The flaws and greed of humanity are exposed  Clare Colvin has a collection of her short stories out: Stone Children and Other Stories.  The…

Cabinet Minister in Theatrical Debt

Cabinet Minister in Theatrical Debt

Michael HollandSep 16, 2024

Pinero’s breathless farce is given a new life Sir Julian Twombley is in trouble: his wife and son have run up massive debts and…