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Alice Anokhina

Alice Anokhina has written 30 posts for The London Word
Exported from Eastern Europe and dropped in the middle of London. At first drinking fancy tea with the mice infesting the walls of a tiny Fulham flat. Then on to the eye-gougingly vapid masses of imitation toffs populating Clapham. Finally settled in a northern postcode where nobody sneers at black lipstick and pretentious metal spikes. What you are witnessing here is the cursory escapism from an ongoing pursuit of a career in academia, designed to avoid the life of an impoverished writer.

The Museum of Childhood

Some of the dolls dating back to the late 19th century really make you question the psychological adjustment of our great-grandparents

Westfield. What Credit Crunch?

The marble floors are so unfathomably shiny and clean that it feels like visiting a very rich school friend’s house

Alison Tang’s Littleclouds

Littleclouds, as she’s known around the web, is a fascinating product of formal education in graphic art and illustration

‘Alex’ at Leicester Square Theatre

It is, perhaps, an unusual springboard for a theatrical production as it suffers from a Buzz-Killington-variety sense of humour

A Wind of Revolution Blows

Here you’ll find carefully printed and framed excerpts from French texts, embroidered aprons and doctored postcards

Les Années Folles: The Art of Paris in W1

The curator must be given a well-deserved nod of approval for selecting a geographical, instead of stylistic theme

Erró’s Superheros at the Mayor Gallery

Erró’s style is a variation on postmodern pop-art: a clutter of neon characters, speech bubbles, strong outlines and false perspective

Shoreditch’s Good Catch

Tucked away in the alt-cool scene of Shoreditch, Catch gives off an eerie green glow at 22 Kingsland Road

Hyde Park’s Winter Wonderland

Is it worth braving the cold for? Is the glitz and glamour promised by the posters and magazine featurettes really all that?

South Bank’s Cologne Christmas Market

Strolling down Belvedere Road, people look cold and in a hurry, but happy and smiling. It could just be the mulled wine though

Journeys of a City Girl

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