They have changed the menu at Buddies!
Towards the end of the last century I arrived in Northampton as a wide-eyed bumpkin from leafy Bedford and I asked the grizzled old hacks at the Chron what this dirty old [...]
Reviews
One of the the most important plays I’ll watch this year
Tre Ventour reviews the Made In Northampton production Our Lady of Kibeho, staged for the first time in the UK at Royal & Derngate… Photos by Manuel Harlan Kibeho [...]
JK Rowling is criminally good
Lena Davis has been a music producer, writer and Personal Manager; a photographer and journalist and, over thirty years ago, got together with Caroline Scattergood to create [...]
The Worst Witch is the best
Review – The Worst Witch, Royal Theatre Northampton (show seen, Sunday Dec 9) THEY are pretty tough to impress, ten-year-old girls. They’ve just reached that eye-rolling, [...]
Caught by Hook, lines and singers
Peter Pan starring Darren Day is the Northampton Royal & Derngate main pantomime and runs until Sunday December 30. The atmosphere in the Derngate foyer before the [...]
James Acaster is back in town
The NN Cafe has come back to life in Northampton’s Guildhall Road and James Acaster, who usually treats his home county to a few intimate Christmas gigs, is bringing [...]
Earl Spencer travels Europe with Boris Johnson and other stories from Althorp Literary Festival
Shirley Jones’ uniquely forensic reflections on the Northamptonshire literary festival which gives us grandeur relaxed… How can anybody fit into this? A thought [...]
Review: Posh picky bits at the Bread and Pullet
THERE’S a signature dish enjoyed at Casa Penda known as ‘Picky Bits’. This can come in premium and economy versions. The economy version is basically leftovers, some [...]
Praiseworthy interpretation of an American great
Tre Ventour reviews West Side Story which was at Royal & Derngate… Adapted from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story takes place in America. Verona [...]