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Featured local business - Clubtek

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I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

Lewisham legends legitimate?

Jan

2018

Subterranean shopping centres in Lewisham and Ladywell Village skyscrapers? Judy's heard some rumours and wants to know if anyone else can corroborate. I can't - can you? Please, help a sister out in the comments below: "I’ve heard from two reasonably sensible people about two bits of info which seem to have no evidence anywhere ...

Save New Cross Gate Post Office picket on Saturday

Jan

2018

The Post Office's Valentine's gift to New Cross is its plan to close the Post Office at 199 New Cross Road on 14 February 2018. Some Post Office services will be available instead as franchise at the back of local convenience store One Stop, but the loss of a busy dedicated Post Office has been widely ...

Finite & Infinite Sound.Intuition

Jan

2018

Take Courage Gallery, 388 New Cross RoadMonday 29th of January 2018, 7pmHarpist +TATYANA+ brings her unique program to an acoustic setting at the Take Courage Gallery with a selection of original songs.The evening will culminate with a Sound Bath which is a simultaneously inclusive, interactive, and subversive music-led meditation exploring the therapeutic vibrations of the harp, ...

Mark Fisher remembered at Goldsmiths

Jan

2018

It is a year now since the sad death of Mark Fisher, writer, critical thoughtist and lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths in New Cross. I remenber seeing him talk there around the time his best known work, Capitalist Realism, was published. Personally I was most fond of his work on K-punk blog (and then Dissensus forum) in the early/mid noughties when ...

Noak reopening with new team

Jan

2018

After a period of closure, westside diner Noak is reopening soon with a new team. New manager Gian Luca writes:Initially, Noak will be open only during the day from 8am till 5pm and during those times I am aiming to keep our offering similar to Noak's old menu. We will offer a cosy and friendly ...

Masala Wala moped muppets

Jan

2018

Masala Wala is the second Brockley Cross business to suffer a smashed front window in recent weeks after The Brockley Deli was on the receiving end of a similarly gratuitous act of vandalism before Christmas.One of those weekends, a kid on a moped smashed into the railings outside our place on Sat, we got taped ...

Sanxia Renjia, 36 Deptford Broadway

Jan

2018

Given the fairly abject state of Chinese food options locally, I thought this review of Deptford's Sichuan and Hubei cuisine specialist, Sanxia Renjia, worth sharing with you, just as Monkeyboy shared it with me.The Observer's Jay Rayner describes it as "an arse-kicking, cheek-slapping, thigh-spanking, gloriously ring-burning Sichuan restaurant." He continues:Sanxia is on a different mission. Yes, ...

Campaign opposes cuts to children’s mental health services in Lewisham

Jan

2018

A petition has been launched to protect Lewisham's mental health services from Council cuts. The campaigners say:Lewisham Council is planning to cut children’s mental health (CAMHS) funding by £150,000 over the next 2 years. This follows a £94,000 cut last year and is on top of NHS efficiency savings demanded by the government.The proposed cut ...

The Big Bird Watch…

Jan

2018

East London Line closure due to safety fears

Jan

2018

The lack of ELL service this morning is due to problems with the trains. The BBC reports:"Services on the London Overground network have been disrupted after engineers were forced to take trains off the tracks amid "safety" fears."Part of the braking system is understood to have fallen off from one of its trains "within the ...