The bohemian area is a green oasis tucked away from the bustle of Central London, where sprawling mansions mingle with leafy parks and charming pubs. Home to some of the most expensive streets in London, the lure of East Finchley has brought in a crowd ranging from property magnates to theatre legends.
It is a rare thing to see a show where the performers have been through the very hardships they are performing on stage, but that is exactly what the aptly titled The Realness is offering.
When you think of the description “girl band”, the latest batch of simpering, over-sexualised X Factor rejects springs to mind. Add choir into that mix and you have a bunch of operatic 16-year-olds of the young Charlotte Church variety. However, all-singing, all-dancing, all-girl band Gaggle have a new kind of look and sound that manages to defy any kind of label that is thrown at them.
Theatre buffs will be reaching for the Prosecco and picnic blankets as open-air theatre comes to Highgate this summer. For a child-friendly dose of Shakespeare, Theatre on the Tea Lawn returns to Lauderdale House, in Highgate Hill, with a modern interpretation of Romeo and Juliet.
A group of men crossing England from coast to coast doesn’t exactly sound like a barrel of laughs, but a new British film manages to be both big-hearted and very funny.
A Hampstead schoolgirl has become one of the youngest master scuba divers in the world – aged just 12.
Picture walking into your local Waterstones, perusing the rows of paperbacks until the walls start to close in and picking out a decidedly underwhelming thriller in a “buy one, get one half-price” deal. Now picture A Night of Nearly event in Crouch End with readings from a book in progress, live music and suggestions from the audience for the next instalment.
Cancer Research UK is calling on the women of north London in an urgent appeal to sign up for the Hampstead Race for Life.
Staff, relatives and residents gathered for a bustling barbecue to celebrate the first anniversary of a care home.
Whether they pray in a gurdwara, mosque, synagogue or church, volunteers and organisers of different faiths have been gathering in Finchley Road to cook up a storm and help the underprivileged.
