Dan Carrier

1 week ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Dan Carrier

Work for the Roundhouse exhibition by Myah Asha JeffersTHE camera is everywhere. Millions of photographs are taken each minute around the world and the upshot is humans today are more aware than at any time in history of their image of self. Photographer Myah Asha Jeffer’s latest exhibition Acts of Communion – part of the Roundhouse’s Three Sixty Festival – has been shot in black and white and on film, the antithesis of the instant image world we live in now.

1 week ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Dan Carrier

Camden Market could be set to get a new museum, according to planning documentsA NEW attraction boasting two mini live music venues and a stage for hologram performances of global super groups is being planned for Camden Lock. The project, called Live Odyssey, has been created by market owners Lab Tech with long-standing Camden Town music promoter Gary Prosser. They say they aim to bring in fresh custom by celebrating Camden Town’s musical history.

2 weeks ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Dan Carrier

Tim LordNEW powers allowing the Greater London Authority the final say on late-night drinks licences after the city council has turned them down will create a Wild West End, leading residents’ groups warn. A pilot scheme announced this week will give the GLA the opportunity to “call in” decisions and overturn them, taking the final say away from Westminster councillors on licensing committees.

2 weeks ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Dan Carrier

The volunteer gardeners who spruced up a section of Highgate Road FREE, SIMPLE-TO CANCEL  30-DAY TRIAL OF AUDIBLEA CRACK team of green-fingered citizens have spent a sunny Saturday helping improve a shopping parade in Highgate Road – and were treated to a slap-up Italian feast for their efforts. At the weekend, volunteers from the Carroll and Sanderson Close tenants’ and residents’ association, the Dartmouth Park Neighbourhood Forum and charity Growing Green descended on the stretch.

2 weeks ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Dan Carrier

Pints of view: Professor Phil HowellAROUND 25 per cent of pubs across the UK have shut since 2000 – a worrying trend for an institution that holds a special place in our national psyche. Why this has happened, and why it might matter is the topic of a new book by Cambridge professor, Phil Howell. Prof Howell’s field is historical geography – and his book, simply entitled Pub, takes the reader through the story of the pub as an object: a place whose history is obscured by myth and nostalgia.