A MINI-earthquake was rumbling at the Town Hall last night (Wednesday) after a Labour councillor told the party he was quitting to join the Tories. Shiva Tiwari, who has represented West Hampstead for ...

IN Yiddish, “faygele” is a derogatory name for a gay or effeminate male, akin to “faggot”. Shimmy Braun’s debut play explores the marginalisation of a teenager Ari Freed (Ilan Galkoff) in an Orthodox ...

NEW episodes of the hit Apple TV series Slow Horses were being shot in Bloomsbury this week. And it was impossible for passers-by not to see the clue pointing to a fresh character who may feature in ...

THE council’s chief executive Jenny Rowlands has told staff that she will leave Camden after eight years at the Town Hall – six of them in the top role. She said today (Monday): “It has been the ...

IT’S an inspired choice to use the Hofesh Shechter Dance company as a Greek chorus in the latest London production of Oedipus. Their writhing, frenetic movement, set to choreographer Shechter’s ...

TO one of the critics, it was to be a “fairground toy” blighting the historic view over Camden Lock. To LabTech, the owner of Camden Market, it was an exciting draw which would attract more visitors ...

AN Awami League politician used the ceremonial parlour at the Town Hall to film a political video while his wife was serving as the borough’s mayor, writes Richard Osley. The council said this week ...

TO regulars, it is more than a cafe – it’s a cultural hub of music and fashion and a picture of everything that’s cool about Kentish Town. But now Map, a cafe, music studio and perfor­mance space ...

KATIA Haddad’s two-hander builds in intensity and leaves you wanting more. Taking place over three decades, the play tracks back and forth between Moscow and Mariupol as we follow the fates of two ...

THERE has been some priceless Spurs banter since we last convened: historic, framable portraits of desperation as their fans got stuck on the muggy theme that “winning European semi-finals is not for ...

Maids Chika (chinchilla) and Purin (pudding) prepare for the official opening of the new restaurant A NEW restaurant has opened in Holborn where customers are the “master” of the café, and are served ...

Opposition have been known to berate Camden over its bin collections but Lib Dem Judy Dixey first decided to spend a morning on the rounds – where she learnt of the abuse refuse workers get while ...