Category: London School of Journalism

Features and reviews I’ve written at London School of Journalism

LEBANESE MEAT AND BELLY DANCE AT MAROUSH 1

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A wide glass door with a posh handle, cream-colored pavements, a long bar and some tables with leather sofas: the Maroush restaurant in Edgware road appeared very expensive and sophisticated at first.

An elegant waiter turned up his nose as we asked him a place for three on Saturday evening at eight. “I can give you one, but I need it free by 10.30,” he said, and guided us in the main hall downstairs.

The room was crowded, but the low light made the ambience very warm and inviting. A lot of squared and round tables with white coverts and shell-shaped napkins were disposed very close to one-another.

We walked in front of a tiny stage on one corner and sat at a large table with a bowl of multicoloured vegetables on it. A waitress gave us the menus and waited for our orders.

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THE MANAGER WITH A SAILOR HAT

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Hundreds of coloured balloons, cartoons decorations, extravagant make-up, odd sunglasses and fancy dresses are all around. Outside the shop, the panel says: “Party-Party”. Inside, a waitress wearing Irish-fairy-wings instructs me: “The manager is upstairs.”

In a tiny room surrounded by fulfilled shelves, a man with a white sailor-hat is sorting out some muffin tins. He smiles at me and said, “Just a minute, we’re very busy in these days,” and turns to give a woman an 18inch-serving dish for a birthday dessert.

Francois is a party-man from the North-east of France, who came to London for a two-weeks holiday in 1997, and never moved back.

He wants me to guess his age and his peppy face lights up as he confirms,         “I’ll be 30 in May.” He is planning a smashing night, I bet.

Manager of the “Party-Party” shop in Kilburn since 2007, Francois has been working for ten years in the other branch of Dorsten, before the promotion.

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BRITISH NEW FEAR OF IMMIGRATION: FOREIGN STUDENTS AT RISK

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Although overseas students bring into UK economy up to £10 billion every year and the majority don’t stay in the country permanently, young Britons feel threatened by migration, said a new poll by Ipsos Mori.

“The government sets the number for home students,” said Right2education on the Guardian online, adding “by lowering target numbers for abroad students there’s a possibility of increasing the numbers for us British. The financial side is a whole separate issue”

And Geoff1963 followed him: “Who cares about foreign students?? I care about English.”

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EXCITING JAZZ AND TASTY FOOD AT THE 606 CLUB

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Cosy atmosphere, inspiring live music, refined dishes and selected wine: this is the 606 Jazz Club.

Popular among the Jazz lovers, it’s situated in the basement of an old brick building in 90 Lots road, close to the Imperial Wharf overground station: quite difficult to find it, as there’s no signal outside. It’s a place for connoisseurs.

We went there on Thursday at nine, just in time for the one band concert of that evening: Tim and the Whitehead Quartet. We rang a doorbell and a waiter came upstairs to open a big black door gate and let us in.

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FINDING A ROOM IN LONDON

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Hundreds of students and young professionals live the same situation: some are looking for a place to move in, some have just found it after a desperate and long search, and wish their renting contract would be renewed. I’ve been looking for a room for two months, and saw a lot of grotesque flats before I’ve found a suitable one.

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The first way to start a research is through the Internet: a lot of websites host adverts of any kind, including flatshares. Easyroommate, Gumtree, Intolondon, Loot, Spareroomare the most popular.

A few words to introduce yourself, some options to define the search by area, kind of room, price range and preferences about housemates, smokers and pets. Apparently, the more specific the advert is written, the better the search will be.

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