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James Brown, illustrator & printmaker
This fascinating linocut by James Brown caught my eye at the Mangle Sale on Saturday, so on Monday I walked over from Spitalfields to Hackney Wick, where James has his studio, to find out more. It is … more →
Spitalfields Life
James Brown, illustrator & printmaker
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the gentle author wrote 21 hours ago: This fascinating linocut by James Brown caught my eye at the Mangle Sale on Saturday, so on Monday I … more →
The romance of old Whitechapel
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the gentle author wrote 2 days ago: During summer, I like to walk down from Spitalfields through Whitechapel to the river each week and … more →
Mr Sammy's beigel shop
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the gentle author wrote 5 days ago: The man in the blue v-neck sweater is Sammy Minzly, known affectionately in the neighbourhood as Mr … more →
Jenufa
jasr wrote 1 week ago: Leos Janacek turned the inhabitants of his home region, Moravia, into the protagonists of this popul … more →
Women Sing East
the gentle author wrote 1 week ago: On an especially rainy night last week, I stumbled upon what appeared to be a wild party happening a … more →
Dracula
jasr wrote 1 week ago: Based on the popular novel by Bram Stoker, the director Ignacio García May presents his own vision o … more →
Spitalfields' magnificent organ
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the gentle author wrote 2 weeks ago: For over a century, we were proud to say we had the biggest organ in the country here in Spitalfield … more →
Ashley Jordan Gordon, photographer
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the gentle author wrote 2 weeks ago: The gaze of this girl on Kingsland Rd is inescapable, she is the still point at the centre of Ashley … more →
Feriarte 2009
jasr wrote 3 weeks ago: Source: ifema.es The Art and Antiques Fair, which celebrates this year its 33rd edition, is turning … more →
The Marquise of O
jasr wrote 3 weeks ago: In a city of northern Italy, a widow from an excellent family causes a great social upheaval when sh … more →
Madrid Autumn Festival 2009
jasr wrote 4 weeks ago: Theatre, dance, music, circus… All the performing arts are the protagonists in this new editio … more →
Tyrone's cinema
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the gentle author wrote 1 month ago: It was only after Tyrone Walker-Hebborn actually bought the Genesis Cinema in the Mile End Rd that h … more →
Chris Dyson, architect
the gentle author wrote 1 month ago: Here are two pictures of 11 Princelet St, on the left is 2006 and on the right is 2007, before and a … more →
Madrid International Jazz Festival 2009
jasr wrote 1 month ago: From November 4th to 28th, Madrid is becoming once again the capital of music thanks to a new editio … more →
When Roy Kinnear got his ladder stuck
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the gentle author wrote 1 month ago: This is what happens when you try to carry a ladder the wrong way down a narrow alley, as Roy Kinnea … more →
Rodchenko & Popova
jasr wrote 1 month ago: The exhibition, at Reina Sofía Museum, shows over 350 works by these two Russian artists made betwee … more →
The bookshop on the corner
the gentle author wrote 1 month ago: I was in the bookshop on the corner of Charles Sq and Pitfield St when an author came in, all of a f … more →
Darwin's Evolution
jasr wrote 1 month ago: Source: mncn.es 2009 commemorates two events related to Charles Darwin: the bicentenary of his birth … more →
Shoreditch types
the gentle author wrote 1 month ago: Anyone who has been walking round the neighbourhood will recognise the work of street artist Ben Ein … more →
