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I was…born in London, and lived all over the city, from Hackney, Highgate, Tottenham to Richmond. The area in London I call home is… anywhere that there are like-minded individuals. At the moment I’m living in Streatham, but I call the whole city home. Each borough is like a different member…
One for the Road is a powerful study of the horror of individual lives at the mercy of a dictatorship. It recounts the interrogation of Victor, his wife and their seven year old son, at the hands of a brutal government. Pinter was inspired to write the play in 1984 after…
The @ symbol (or to give it its proper name, the ‘at symbol’) has had a number of uses in its 111-year lifetime. Originally conceived as accounting shorthand for ‘at the rate of’, with the arrival of email in the 1990s the humble @ came into worldwide(web) usage as an…
Many contemporary French filmmakers seem to be unaware that a fleeting smile or a gentle touch conveys an emotion far more effectively than having the characters talk endlessly about their feelings. What a delightful surprise it is then, to find that the most romantic country in the world can still…
It might be a tad bit tricky to pronounce, but Bioluminescence, a showcase by Mila Nesterova, will be bringing a fluorescent spectacle to Shoreditch this month, featuring light-boxes, large-scale fashion photography and still life prints. Calling herself the ‘explorer of light’, the Moscow-born photographer’s work looks at contemporary life, and includes…
I am…a multi-platform kind of girl who doesn’t like being labelled, so let’s just say I do a mix of fashiony things that includes writing, styling, creative consultancy, teaching and running my blog disneyrollergirl.net which is my own mini multi-media empire. My attachment to London is mostly about the memories…