10Jun2009 Finley Quaye’s Secret Notting Hill Gig /Gemma Hughes/Arts & Culture10 Jun 2009 For an un-advertised gig, word certainly got around; the sell-out queue ran out of the door and halfway down The Tabernacle's pretty courtyard
9Jun2009 Rodriguez Big Chill Warm Up at the Barbican /Nicholas Fix/Arts & Culture09 Jun 2009 Rodriguez appeared a frail old man, helped onto the stage, and walked gingerly to the microphone
8Jun2009 Belgo’s Summer LobsterFest /Tallman Smith/Food & Booze08 Jun 2009 The monks are out in force at Belgo Centraal this summer at the return of the Belgian restaurant’s legendary LobsterFest
5Jun2009 Pasta Making at Jamie Oliver’s Recipease /Henry Little/Food & Booze05 Jun 2009 I was here to delve deeper, to learn the dark art of pasta. Many a foolhardy novice has come a cropper with pasta machines
5Jun2009 Indian Chefs Offer Food for Thought /Douglas Blyde/Food & Booze05 Jun 2009 Food for Thought, an initiative born by charity Find Your Feet, aims to help stave off hunger and malnutrition in rural Northern India
4Jun2009 Sebastian Horsley at Soho’s Union Club /Nick Purves/Arts & Culture04 Jun 2009 This is no meek character but Sebastian Horsley, the writer, artist and in his own words, 'a failed suicide'
3Jun2009 Tennis Coats at Dalston’s Café Oto /Kerstin Rodgers/Arts & Culture03 Jun 2009 Café Oto, a loft-style space, is situated down a back street in Dalston, an area in the process of being overhauled, possibly for the Olympics
2Jun2009 Ajax at Riverside Studios /Jo Caird/Arts & Culture02 Jun 2009 'Ajax' sets Sophocles’ 450BC drama at the time of the First World War, shifting the focus from the horrors of war to the psychological consequences it has for those who take part
1Jun2009 London to Mongolia – Rally Stylee /Sarah Penny/Living Well01 Jun 2009 Thomas Donhou and Dominic Yard are Team Radio Silence and are going on the mother of all road trips
30May2009 Cockney Angel in a London Bus /Sophie Monks Kaufman/Speakers' Corner30 May 2009 It was a grey day in London town and I found myself sliding into a slough of despond