Posted in Around Dulwich, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Family Activities, Film, Theatre & Music, LATES, Reviews, South London, tagged Crown and Greyhound, Dulwich Park, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Cafe, Gallery Film, Grease, Kennington Kids, Lordship Lane, North Dulwich train station, Tate Modern, West Dulwich train station on July 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Dulwich OnView rattles on about how much we love Dulwich Picture Gallery, but what’s so special about a small collection of old paintings in the depths of south London? Steve Slack explains.
I asked someone recently ‘What comes to mind when you think of Dulwich Picture Gallery?’. She said she hadn’t been for years, but remembered [...]
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Posted in Art, Exhibitions, New work - Exclusives, Reviews, tagged BP Portrait Award, Emily Faludy, John Moores Prize, Julie Bennett, Lee Maelzer, Matthew Stradling, portraits, portraiture, Saatchi new stars, South London Women Artists on July 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Reviewed by local artist Emily Rose Faludy as part of DPG Friends’ Celebration of South London Women Artists. View local artists’ work or add your own at www.southlondonwomenartists.co.uk
The new show at Sartorial Contemporary art in Notting Hill shows work by three stylistically very different painters. What they have in common is the rawness, the directness of [...]
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Posted in Around Dulwich, Food & Drink, Reviews, tagged Dulwich, pub quiz, top tips, British Prime Ministers, US Presidents, Oscar winners, sporting champions, Lloyd-George, Fatima Whitbread, William Pitt, Google on June 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
After working their way through the finest local pubs Steve Slack, and his brave team of knowledge-smiths, ponder their quizzing top tips.
We won some and we lost some. (In fact we only won one). But we had a great time. Here are our collective pointers for an fun night out at the pub quiz.
Who’s in [...]
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Posted in Around Dulwich, Food & Drink, Reviews, tagged Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, pub quiz, The Magdala, 176, hung over, sausage and chips, Play Your Cards Right on June 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Steve Slack’s diary of a week in the life of the pub quiz continues. His team are eager for a win.
FRIDAY
It turns out that Thursday evening isn’t the new Friday. Friday is still Friday. And for me that means drinking a bottle of Pinot Grigio on an empty stomach with my colleagues after work and [...]
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Posted in Around Dulwich, Food & Drink, Reviews, tagged Lordship Lane, The Plough, pub quiz, dulwich library, who want's to be a millionaire?, gallimaufry, anacardiaceae, pistachio, top gear on June 3, 2008 | No Comments »
You’d think that after three nights out quizzing we wouldn’t want to answer another question or listen to another music round. But were getting into our stride and can almost smell victory.
THURSDAY
So we head to The Plough, opposite Dulwich Library.
This used to be a horrid pub. I’ve previously ordered a pint, looked around, realised [...]
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Posted in Around Dulwich, Food & Drink, Reviews, Uncategorized, tagged Dulwich Picture Gallery, film, pub quiz, Camberwell, Sun and Doves, beer garden, Gallery Film, Coldharbour Lane, Crystal Palace Tavern, The Rye Hotel, Canadian drag queen, Mark Dodds on May 27, 2008 | No Comments »
With tails between legs, having left yesterday’s answer sheet only half-completed, Steve Slack and team head to Camberwell in search of pub quiz victory.
WEDNESDAY
The Sun and Doves is much more than just a public house. It’s a lively and friendly pub, yes, but it also boasts a tempting menu, fine cocktail list, a well-used gig [...]
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Posted in Food & Drink, Reviews, tagged Bookers, Camel Valley Vineyards, Chapel Down, Eglantine Vineyard, English wine, English Wine Week, pinot noir, sparkling wine, Three Choirs vineyard on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
by Greville Havenhand, who is a member of the Dulwich Wine Society
The last week in May is English Wine Week organised by “English Wine Producers.” Here he goes again, you may say. Having praised English sparkling wine in my notes on springtime drinking it may seem that I am over keen on what [...]
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Posted in Art, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Reviews, tagged Jackson Pollock, Edward Hopper, British Museum, John Sloan, George Bellows, Blanche Lazzell, New York on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Anna Sayburn reviews American prints at the British Museum
If the Coming of Age exhibition at Dulwich has whetted your appetite for American art, don’t miss a fascinating complementary exhibition on until September at the British Museum.
The American Scene – Prints from Hopper to Pollock not only namechecks many of the same artists on display in [...]
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Posted in Around Dulwich, Events, Local History, Reviews, What's On, tagged Adelaide Hall, Black Londoners, Cuming Museum, Dr Harold Moody, E.I. Ekpenyon, Esther Bruce, Home Front, Keep Smiling Through, Ken Johnson, south london exhibitions on April 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
by Angie Macdonald
History is full of untold stories and one such story is that of of black Londoners on the home front during the Second World War.
I don’t know about you, but in my school history lessons and programmes I’ve watched on TV, the stories and images from World War Two were always of [...]
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Angela Corrias spoke to local Dulwich author Peter Chapman about his book Jungle Capitalists, an in-depth look at globalisation and the banana trade.
Every era has its own buzzword, and in the contemporary world this is globalisation. The controversial relations between a globalised economy and domestic politics is explained in Peter Chapman’s last book, “Jungle Capitalists”, [...]
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