CamdenNewJournal

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

Travis Elborough, author of Artists’ Journeys that Shaped Our WorldIT was hardly the most romantic of surroundings – but for the artist Oskar Kokoschka and his bride Olda Palkovska, the bomb shelter at Hampstead Town Hall was at least safe from German bombers hitting the capital. The date was May 15 1941, and while the happy couple might have imagined a different setting, Hampstead had offered them a safe haven as they built a life together.

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

Tim Roth as Sugarman, centre, and his brigand of robbers in Tornado [Norman Wilcox-Geissen]TORNADODirected by John MacleanCertificate: 15☆☆☆☆THIS lo-fi action flick is a wonderfully original tale that provides a platform for us to be reminded, yet again, what a great actor Tim Roth really is. He plays bandit leader Sugarman, an 18th-century desperado who has his hands on a life-changing bag of booty, a sack of gold that brings with it murderous greed.

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

The Perch is a very good and very bold biting fish. He is one of the fishes of prey that like the Pike and Trout carries his teeth in his mouth, and he dare venture to kill and devour several kinds of fish; And you may observe that they are not like the solitary Pike, but love to accompany one another and march together in troopsIT had been a hard few years for Izaak Walton.The draper had watched the conflict between King and Parliament grow more pronounced from his shop in Fleet Street.

2 weeks ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Steve Barnett

Arsenal are thought to be progressing well in their bid to sign Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga [David Horton/SPP]ASKED recently what superpower would he have, Mikel Arteta picked two: one being the ability to “freeze moments and pause”. It’s a fitting choice really; one that a number of Arsenal supporters might just feel they can relate to. They have been stuck in their very own strikerless moment – frozen in time, waiting for their club to sign a forward that will end all their suffering.

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

Dick French and one of his paintings of Soho lifeA DAMNING report into the death of a celebrated artist has found the council’s social services team missed numerous opportunities to help save his life. Dick French, an award-winning painter who was famous for his images of Soho street life and whose works are owned by the Museum of London, was found dead in his Gospel Oak flat last Christmas.