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Regeneration Review Committee: LIVE

Reporter Rhiannon Edwards will be covering the Regeneration Review Committee meeting at Islington Town Hall: LIVE from 7:30pm tonight

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Blogs, Lunchbox, Top story

LUNCHBOX: The Breakfast Club

At least 30 hungry North Londoners jostle for a coveted spot inside the 1980s-themed interior of The Breakfast Club as I arrive dead on 12 o’clock for a lazy Saturday afternoon brunch. The queue spills out onto the trendy streets of Camden Passage; I grumpily join the end as I feel my stomach rumbling.

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Arts, Review

Review: The Power of Yes

Posted on 09 March 2010

“This is not a play, it’s a story,” claims the character David Hare, as he strides onto the stage for the opening scene. As the “story” unfolds, the reason for this becomes clear: in tracing the story of the financial crisis, the playwright has created a documentary-like account of the “collapse of capitalism”, rather than dramatising [...] Continue Reading

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Arts, Review

Review: We Love 77

Posted on 09 March 2010

Step behind the gold velvet curtain of the vintage shop at 46 Essex Road, and into Islington’s latest pop-up gallery. The exhibition is artistic duo Sardine and Tobleroni’s homage to the punk-rock movement. “The artists are interested in bad taste”, says the curator Debra Williams. “They like to paint badly, and describe their practice as conceptual [...] Continue Reading

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Arts, News features

Reading into Islington

Posted on 09 March 2010

Are you a Dickens reader or a Dahl? More of a Hemmingway than a Hornby? What does your bookcase say about you? Local photographer Kathryn Faulkner answers these questions – and more – at Bibliology, her most recent exhibition as resident artist at the Golden Lane Estate Gallery. Continue Reading

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Blogs, IN Agony

INagony - My boyfriend is sending Facebook messages to other women…

Posted on 09 March 2010

Dear INagony, My long-term boyfriend has been sending Facebook messages to other women – and one woman in particular. Continue Reading

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