by Olivia Blackman | May 17, 2026 | Culture, News
After eight long years in the dark, the Curzon is coming back to the King’s Road – with grand plans to be a 21st century creative venue, as well as a state of the art cinema. The new venue – to be known simply as Curzon Chelsea – will be inside the...
by John Cookson | Jan 27, 2026 | Culture, News
Less than 24 hours after flames tore through the legendary Kensington Roof Gardens, the club’s bosses have vowed it will reopen this week. A dramatic late-night inferno sparked a major emergency response as 80 firefighters in 12 engines raced to Kensington High...
by Citizen Reporter | Jan 19, 2026 | Culture
The Last Bantam is a one-hour, one-man play that reveals the incredible and forgotten story of the ‘Bantam’ soldiers – 30,000 men between 5ft-5ft 3” who signed up to fight in the Great War. It is told through the eyes of Patrick Michael Wolfe, a Dubliner who...
by Rob McGibbon | Jan 13, 2026 | Culture, Reviewz
‘A quiet, multi-layered play with wit, warmth and melancholy that draws you in and leaves its mark. It has “rasa’ in abundance’ FOUR STARZ 1930, India. Flora Crewe, a noted Bloomsbury Group poet, undertakes a journey through India for her...
by Citizen Reporter | Nov 24, 2025 | Culture, News
Belgravia’s five-star hotspot The Hari was the place to be last week as the art glitterati packed into the luxury hotel for the 2025 Hari Art Prize — with three rising stars walking away with a share of a £14,000 prize pot. Now in only its fourth year, the competition...
by Rob McGibbon | Oct 9, 2025 | Culture, News
Veteran news broadcaster John Simpson has spoken for the first time of the moment he sought solace from a Chelsea vicar as he struggled with the psychology fallout from a devastating bomb attack in Iraq. Simpson was covering the Iraq war in 2003 when he and his TV...
