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The Pearly Kings & Queens of London
While out for my customary constitutional down Brick Lane yesterday, I happened upon some of the Pearly Kings & Queens of London. I’d heard about, and seen pictures of these characters, but out in force they are definitely holding it down!
The ‘Pearlies’ have been part of London life since 1875; young Henry Croft, uh, came [...] -
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This is not a shop. It’s a pop sub culture
Snapped by Cory Doctorow somewhere round Brick Lane. Quelle surprise.
Image here released under Creative Commons.
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clubs, london, nightlife, shoreditch, society
R&R: East London’s answer to the Boat Race
Slack-jawed, Jack Wills-wearing raars, whilst increasingly spotted around Spitalfields, are normally not found too far from their South West London habitats. There is nothing they love more than the Boat Race; with jumpers tied around shoulders, Tarquin cracking open the Veuve and Penelope, who happens to be hopeless sloshed on the Pimms that mummy made, [...]
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london, nightlife, shoreditch
Conran crosses the boundary
The Shoreditch naysayers won’t be happy and will proclaim the opening of Terence Conran’s Boundary restaurant (just off Shoreditch High Street) as another gentrified brick in the wall. You can read the review in the Indie here. Boundary will join Shoreditch House and Trois Garcons at the wankier end of the ‘ditch’s social scale not [...]
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lulz, shoreditch
Who’s Jack?
01.09.09 | Permalink | 2 CommentsIs a wanky free magazine, one which has given me big lulz with this insight after a short diatribe about NY resolutions and shit companies/brands going bust;
“We would also like to call an end to just plain stupid fashion pages”.
Click here and skip to page 2 & 3 (which precede said statement)…we agree wholeheartedly [...]
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