Certain experiences can severely taint a place for me (negative association) like suffering that claustrophobic pang when watching a film that sickens you but is hard to walk out of, in this case “The heart is deceitful above all things” an utterly depressing film directed by and starring Asia Argento about a junky degenerate mother [...]

It’s an ongoing dilemma for me where to sit in the cinema. I’m forever up against the tricky decision as to whether or not to sacrifice a good view of the screen for mental comfort by taking an aisle seat as, soon as I’m boxed in with a row of tightly packed viewers to either [...]

I think I’ve mentioned before that Clapham is an area of London generally to be avoided with one of a few exceptions, The Clapham Picture House. Tucked away down a back street this busy little cinema has a bar, comfortable seating area serving food, hosts a film night every Tuesday where those who know the [...]

I could not be more enthusiastic about this cinema. I consider myself an expect as I have pointedly been to every independent cinema in London and the Everyman Hampstead comes at the top of the list. For not much more than you would spend at a regular multiplex cinema you get your own chair, you [...]

Once you manage to negotiate your way from Brixton station through the tramps and junkies scrounging to pick up cigarette butts from under your feet, you’ll find yourself in a little haven in an otherwise 3rd world ghetto know as Brixton. The Ritzy has a lovely cafe and bar and is the kind of cinema [...]

My secret spot for finding one-off pieces super cheap. Apple Tree may not stock the highest quality clothes but it’s a small compromise for handmade clothes at a snip. It has a collection of local designers who have stalls along Ladbroke Grove but at least here you don’t have to try on clothes in front [...]

Hoxton Boutique is great despite the odds stacked against it, that being located in Hoxton square (you’d presume all the price tags were sky-high) and having ‘Hoxton’ in the title. It’s not overly expensive and the staff are approachable and like to chat about the weather or anything for that matter as I don’t think [...]

I hate sales. The whole shop looks ugly, everything is rammed together, basically aesthetics go to hell, I’d rather pay full price than have to deal with that shit. When I shop I like the whole experience to be pleasurable. Korean owned Hurwundeki makes this so. They never over cram the rails, having only one [...]

If they gave out ‘Buyer’ awards then Che (the buyer here) would win it. God they have so much great, great stuff, it’s expensive but so worth it. They were the first stockists in London of Cheap Monday jeans, or so I hear from The Captain. Now The Captain is NOT one of the beautiful [...]

I can’t afford any of the clothes or actually anything here for that matter but I always end up buying something to fill a silence with the beautiful boy (but doesn’t he know it – oh bore!) that works here. When we run out of things to say and I can’t think of another compliment [...]

I think it’s accurate to say that Ray’s is the central meeting point for anyone coming to Soho. Situated in Foyle’s bookshop it serves all kinds of healthy food and cakes, coffee, tea and other drinks. Its pouring with rain outside and it’s a handy place to find myself as I have the whole book [...]

This is probably my favourite café in London (and like many others I use as an office) due to the fact that it’s black and white and it’s rare that you see anyone in there who is not either consciously or subconsciously dressed in black or white. They don’t care if you stay there for [...]

The interior of cinema one, which is the original theatre, is decorated in a Louis XVI manner and the auditorium still has the two original elliptically curved balconies. The ghost of a female cashier reputedly haunts the cinema. Legend has it that when she was caught fiddling the box office receipts and confronted by the [...]