“BUT is it jazz?” It’s a question that drummer/percussionist/producer Chiminyo (aka Tim Doyle) is either asked or muses himself from the stage at every gig he does at Ronnie Scott’s. Tim is the ...

AN artist wrongly convicted of helping make IRA bombs – who was jailed in an adult prison aged 13 more than 50 years ago – is backing a campaign for urgent reform to protect the next generation of ...

Maids Chika (chinchilla) and Purin (pudding) prepare for the official opening of the new restaurant A NEW restaurant has opened in Holborn where customers are the “master” of the café, and are served ...

TERRIFIC performances breathe fire into Ava Pickett’s compelling debut play, winner of the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. It’s 1536, the year of Anne Boleyn’s death. Across England, people are ...

NEARLY 100 years of film history is to come to an end with the closure of Odeon in Camden Town, the New Journal can reveal. The picture house in Parkway, which first opened in 1937, is set to be ...

TO regulars, it is more than a cafe – it’s a cultural hub of music and fashion and a picture of everything that’s cool about Kentish Town. But now Map, a cafe, music studio and perfor­mance space ...

A DECISION to disband a crime-fighting unit of police in the Royal Par [Rajob ks has been branded “reckless” and “absurd” by campaigners. For more than 130 years specialist officers have worked in ...

IN the middle of San Marnies Square, Bilbao, there was a sea of white Spurs shirts as far as the fans’ beer-bleared eye could see. Their conductor found a cafe table is enough for a stage, and with ...

A FIRST novel by popular Highgate actor Larry Lamb, famous for his role in TV’s Gavin and Stacey, spotlights not the stars of a film but the people who work behind the scenes. In the entertaining All ...

FOLLOWING an acclaimed Broadway run, the Tony Award-winning musical comedy Shucked arrives in Regent’s Park. Robert Horn’s bonkers take on a small midwestern American community resisting change is a ...

IN Paris, journalist Louis-Sebastien Mercier wrote: “They imagine a Frenchman could not cross the street in London without being insulted, that every Englishman is fierce and devours raw flesh. In ...

A DISAPPOINTING season ends at Southampton this Sunday, but the good news is that Arsenal are already planning for a busy summer as Mikel Arteta sets about rebuilding his squad. A number of players ...