by Rob McGibbon | Jul 19, 2025 | Culture, News
McDonald’s on the King’s Road suddenly closed on 6th July. The restaurant – at the junction with Royal Avenue – is now boarded up and will not be re-opening. The Citizen approached McDonald’s with a series of questions asking for an...
by Rob McGibbon | Jul 17, 2025 | Culture, News, Property
It has been three years in the making, but a stunning new public artwork has finally been unveiled across the façade The Gaumont building on the King’s Road. Entitled Cascade, the ceramic abstract diptych fills two 609 x 288 cm panels on either side of the 1930s...
by Rob McGibbon | Jun 13, 2025 | Culture
The Chelsea Theatre is staging an operatic play based on the Anglo-Armenian children who inspired Arthur Ransom’e much-loved children’s novel Swallows and Amazons. ‘Swallows and Armenians’, by Iran-born playwright Dr Karen Babayan, will have...
by Rob McGibbon | Apr 24, 2025 | Culture, News, Reviewz
‘A dazzling exhibition of bling for billionaires, but it’s little more than a glorified department store concession with a heart of stone’ Two Starz Cartier, The Sainsbury Gallery, V&A Until 16th November. Tickets from £27. To book,...
by Rob McGibbon | Apr 19, 2025 | Culture, Reviewz
‘An ambitious and wildly imaginative production that suffers under the weight of debris from the breaking of the fourth wall’ THREE STARZ The Play: The Inseparables by Grace Joy Howarth – based on the novel by Simone de Beauvoir,...
by Rob McGibbon | Apr 14, 2025 | Culture, News
One of Chelsea’s most famous lost nightspots has finally shaken off its hangover and re-emerged on the King’s Road with an exuberant flourish. 151 – the small basement venue, so-called simply because of its street number – has reopened as The...
