Poem of the week: Windrush Square, Brixton by Peter Lindley
WINDRUSH SQUARE, BRIXTON
It’s seven-thirty on a Sunday morning. Clubbers clusteraround the...
Album of the week: Funky Kingston by Toots and...
Each week our music editor Dave Randall picks an album (with a local connection) you need to hear …
Funky...
Album of the week: Old Wow by Sam Lee
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Album of the week: Dread Beat an’ Blood by...
Each week our music editor Dave Randall picks an album (with a local connection) you need to hear …
We...
Book of the week: The Lambeth Cholera Outbreak of 1848-1849...
Alan Slingsby reads the shocking story of another epidemic in Lambeth
Boris Johnson, fighting his personal battle with Covid-19 in St Thomas’ hospital in Lambeth,...
Artwork of the week: Joseph Receiving Pharoah’s Ring by...
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was an Italian painter born in 1696 and known principally for his many decorative frescoes adorning buildings in northern Italy. Thought...
Album of the week: Treasures Untold by Tom Brosseau
Each week our music editor Dave Randall picks an album (with a local connection) you need to hear …
Film of the week: Day One Komonopromo by Keith...
It’s the 10th anniversary of Day One Komonopromo which won Brixton director Keith Musaman Morton an award at the NYC international Independent Film Festival....
Album of the week: Sistahs by Big Joanie
Each week our music editor Dave Randall picks an album (with a local connection) you need to hear …
https://youtu.be/iE6Ji3dGHO4
Big Joanie describe themselves as Black...
Album of the week: A Work Of Heart by...
Each week our music editor Dave Randall picks an album (with a local connection) you need to hear …
https://youtu.be/DvH6SGAxhF8
I, like so many others, was...
Artwork of the week
This rather disturbing linocut is from a series of 21 by Bill Woodrow, each one of which is based upon a chapter from Primo...
Book of the week: The Colour of Memory by...
Alan Slingsby on a book set in 1980s Brixton that dazzles with its photography-like descriptions
At one point in Geoff Dyer’s The Colour of Memory,...
Album of the week: Live At The Windmill by...
Each week our music editor Dave Randall picks an album (with a local connection) you need to hear …
https://youtu.be/5CE5VrILnTg
If you make your way over...
Book of the week: Windrush, A Ship Through Time ...
Alan Slingsby discovers in an unusual and compelling history book that there is a great deal more to the Windrush than its Brixton connection
We’ve...
Album of the week: Percussion Bitter Sweet by Max...
Each week our music editor Dave Randall picks an album (with a local connection) you need to hear…
https://youtu.be/is56IsR4_vc
Last week I briefly mentioned Max Roach...
Picture of the week: A View of Walton Bridge by...
Arts editor Leslie Manasseh's pick for picture of the week
As we learn to cope with the lockdown in our various ways, we thought it...