In recent years, the cult of the cupcake has become synonymous with yummy mummies, twee tea parties and a mark of middle-classness. So when Ms Cupcake, London’s first 100% vegan [...]
BY TIM DICKENS & ZOE JEWELL, EDITORS A judge today refused to hear a bid by Lambeth Council to bring an immediate injunction against an historic B ...
By Kathy Page Carlton Mansions, on Coldharbour Lane in Brixton: I lived there between circa 1980 and 1987, and I enjoyed telling people my address. ...
By Zoe Jewell, editor On one side of Coldharbour Lane, outside Granville Arcade, a couple are standing and taking a photo. The building they are inter ...
BY ZOE JEWELL, EDITOR Residents of 16 flats in a long-term housing co-operative in central Brixton are to be forced from their homes following a surprise fire inspection. Members of [...]
US-born, Brixton-based, sign-painter Bella Pace writes in praise of Brixton’s appreciation of the hand-painted sign and explores some historic and more recent varieties (photo gallery below). Look at a really [...]
Our Features Editor Luke Massey gushes unrestrained about just why Bookmongers on Coldharbour Lane is so totally awesome (opinions may be Luke’s)… Bookmongers has everything a second-hand bookshop should have: [...]
By Luke Massey With its iconic hand-painted sign, its labyrinthine abundance of books and the ubiquitous greeting by much-loved shop mascot Rosa the dog: Bookmongers is a Brixton landmark. It [...]
By Tim Dickens, editor One of Brixton’s longest-running night clubs, Club 414, had its license handed back by Lambeth council last night. The license had been suspended earlier this month [...]
Homes set aside for social housing at the Brixton Square development will cost 20 per cent more after Labour Lambeth councillors passed a controversial application from developers. The planning committee [...]
