Category: London Life
Get a special discount for the Hula Boogie beginners jive/rock’n'roll dance course!
Get a special Vintage Guide discount for Hula Boogie’s next five week beginners jive/rock’n’roll dance course at Kennington. Starting on Wednesday 7 March, you can get a discount of £5 off the regular price for the course (normally £45). There’s no experience necessary and you don’t have to worry about bringing your own partner either. [...]
Win a free place at the Lipstick & Curls vintage hair & beauty workshop
One lucky reader will be in with a chance to get a free place at the next Lipstick and Curls vintage hair & beauty workshop on Sunday, 5 February. The workshop will concentrate on ‘Lipstick & Curls’: how to get the perfect curl and pick the right lipstick for your lip shape and skin tone. [...]
Win: Book of Kool – a photo journal of the UK kustom scene
8 inches tall and 5 inches wide, with 80 pages of black and white photos, Book of Kool is a photo journal of the UK Kustom and Vintage scene. Published by photographer Nick Grant, the book showcases the cars, the models, the people and the objects that make up the subculture in a volume of [...]
Win a pair of tickets to La Soiree!
Following a hugely successful, rafter-bursting season at the Roundhouse in 2009 and the sensational premiere at the South Bank Big Top in 2010, LA SOIRÉE is returning to the legendary Roundhouse in Camden for another awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping and downright unmissable season from November 2011. A theatrical phenomenon, a unique and inspirational night of live entertainment, [...]
Famous Londoners: Tallulah Bankhead
Alex Mustapha explores the life of silver screen star Tallulah Bankhead during her stay in London in the mid to late Twenties. For her spectacular offstage antics alone, Tallulah Bankhead happens to be my most revered of golden-era starlets. She is the archetypal Thirties actress, representing an era when the seeds of legends were sewn [...]
Things to do around London: tracing Sherlock Holmes
The famous sleuth might only be a fictional character yet London without Sherlock seems unimaginable. Rebecca McWattie explores all things Sherlock in the capital. Since Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet in 1887 he quickly became one of the most well loved fictional characters in English literature. Arthur Conan Doyle [...]
