This summer I published London Walks, my alternative city walking guide, with The Tate. One of my walking gurus (yes I do have them), Walter Benjamin, once wrote: “Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance, nothing more. But to lose…
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The very nature of “pop-up” suggests something of the unusual, but as with most things that the populous gets its hands on – its become a little, well, predictable. Thankfully the creatives of East London won’t take this lying down and have twisted and themed their own version in homage…
I have…just finished my masters degree after being a copywriter for three years in advertising, and now I’m a wannabe planner in integrated advertising. The area in London I call home is…Brixton. It’s got its own O2, okay? I lived on Lambeth Palace Road for the longest time and apart…
The Cultural Exposé loves to discover what’s happening the Londontown – but who better to recommend things to do in the capital than the people living in the city? So starting monthly from this week, you’ll have a chance to win a cool prize by simply suggesting something to do and…
The London Lifestyle Awards celebrates the bars, services, shops and attractions that have made great contributions to the capital – and have helped hip and arty urban adventurers like ourselves enjoy lovely and wonderful things to do and places to go in London. Held this year on October 6th at…
In just two short years, The Book Club in Shoreditch has become one of the best-known alternative nightspots in East London. With a colourful and creative calendar of events incorporating arts and craft, talks, film screenings, DJs and dance classes, its quirky manifesto of ‘drinking and thinking’ has proved a…