London Spy: News & Links From The Week Gone By

Five Stories. Five Headlines. Five Minutes. In the London News This Week…

FARMING: Crop Growing London-Style – BBC
LITERARY: Sometime Londoner Burroughs Gets New Biog – The Independent

FOOD: New Events Website for Foodie London – London 24
DRINKING: London Coffee Shops – Time Out
ART: Keep Off The Sculpture! – ABC
Best of the London Blogs This Week
Theatre takes center stage this month on The Daily Constitutional, so here are our favorite London Theatre blogs…
Easily the finest of all theater blogs has to be actor Nick Day’s Royal Shakespeare Company blog.
Not least because he’s our fine London Walks colleague and he promised to give us £4.50 for cutting and pasting the above line from an email written by his own fair hand. (No, Nick, we won’t take a cheque.)

Joking apart, what lifts Nick’s blog is his clear passion for writing it. No different, then, from his walking tours.  His blog offers insights into the process of theater that are revelatory to we civilians. You can read it here: www.rsc.org.uk/explore/blogs
(And here’s Nick in full-spate leading the Greenwich Walk: www.youtube.com)

Theatre critic Mark Shenton keeps us up-to-date on a daily basis with his blog for The Stage, the newspaper of the theatre profession. His beat ranges from first nights (he pretty much gets to them all) to news and debate. Great piece the other day on what happens when first night disaster strikes. He also blogged most vividly about his own ludicrous firing from the Sunday Express! Shenton’s View can be read here: www.thestage.co.uk
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