Eating outside the box – Ginza, Northampton, restaurant review
Penda has been keen to go to Ginza in Northampton for some months. And no, it’s definitely not just raw fish. A Japanese restaurant on Wellingborough Road ticks lots of [...]
Culture
What’s Croatia like?
I sunbathed in the dusty Croatian hell of Heatwave Lucifer this summer. I saw lizards, hornets, a circling bird of a prey in an empty blue sky and a bear sized dog panting in [...]
The world shaping effect of music
Reviewing the situation with Lena Davis Lena has been a music producer, writer and Personal Manager; a photographer and journalist and, over thirty years ago, got together [...]
Games grew up alongside me
Joe Turvey looks how computer games developed as he did… Why do people play video games? To me, it is an old question. I remember being asked by my parents, not [...]
Guerilla film making will put you in the big picture
Julie Teckman writes about getting involved in the guerilla film making scene in Northampton… One of the great, if less known, things about Northampton is that it is a [...]
Theatre: The Tiger Who Came To Tea
Following a smash-hit West End season, the tea-guzzling Tiger pounces into Northampton this Autumn in a truly magical Olivier Award-nominated production of The Tiger Who Came [...]
Theatre: The Railway Children
A brand new stage production of E. Nesbit’s classic tale, The Railway Children, steams into Northampton’s Royal & Derngate from Tuesday 19 to Sunday 24 September. [...]
The battle decided by a Banbury bar maid
Historian Mike Ingram reveals the story behind the Battle of Edgecote which legend has it was decided by the whim of a Banbury bar maid… It was the year 1469. The [...]
First visitors to Rushden Lakes
Campaigners who lobbied for the creation of the giant Rushden Lakes retail park on the A45 have had a sneak preview of the site. A statement from Crown Estates said: On [...]