New Cross is a teeming blend of Goldsmiths art students, hoodies and young creative professionals living around the smoggy A2 and its great knots of infrastructure. There's an interesting mix of one-off cafés and restaurants; meanwhile New Cross’s many music pubs throb with bands and leftish debate. This edgy, bohemian atmosphere sets up the perfect growing conditions for gentrification, and a preponderance of affluent, semi-famous, creative types are settling and breeding in the impressive houses around Telegraph Hill Park. Love London Awards: this year's winners Food, described as ‘classic English with a modern twist’, is treated with respect at this tiny café just by New Cross station. Particular by name, particular by nature, founder and head chef Becky Davey and her team source seasonal ingredients from small-scale producers, then prepare them freshly on the premises. Lunch shows vegetarian leanings – soft, tasty sweet potato and leek cakes served with halloumi, a salad and a beetroot dip, for example – while light suppers are meatier (rabbit rillette, harissa sticky pork ribs), but if you are the kind of person who encounters a vegetarian dish and thinks ‘this is delicious but it would be even better with bacon’ then you can add that too for an extra pound.

Commitment to independent operators continues through to the wines (mainly organic or biodynamic) and beers (from Kernel and Cheddar Ales breweries). Help yourself to a jug of water with mint, or order the refreshing Deptford elderflower with soda, but before you leave, go for the velvety punch of an HR Higgins coffee (iced, affogato or just flat white) to set you up for the rest of the day. 5 out of 5 stars 4 out of 5 stars Quaint café with a menu of veggie-centric lunch options and various sweet treats. Deli and greengrocer, selling fresh fruit and veg, meat and cheese, and olives by weight The roots of The Albany date back to 1899 when it was founded to encourage wellbeing in the poverty-ridden Deptford community. The 1970s saw the institute host theatre and music before a fire put paid to its artistic efforts. The Albany you see today was rebuilt in 1982 and, as a performing arts centre, has hosted a mix of theatre, music, comedy, spoken word and dance ever since.

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Don't wait - Join online today! Fantastic range of fitness classes Open 7 days a week › Workers' rights after Brexit? It's radio silence from the ToriesYOU ARE HERE: LAT HomeCollectionsRadio Stations RADIO PARADISE, the Internet radio station run by Bill and Rebecca Goldsmith from their home in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, could seem like a dinosaur -- a throwback to FM radio's golden days of the 1970s, when the playlists were controlled by a select few disc jockeys, not corporate flunkies, and the audience had no choice but to trust the DJ.Yet the idea behind the station couldn't be more current: It's the logical extension of the filtering mania that drives the Web. After all, presenting the world through a unique set of eyes has proven quite lucrative for everything from politics (Drudge Report) to celebrity gossip (Perez Hilton). Why should music be any different? Bill Goldsmith, Radio Paradise's one and only DJ, is militantly against the idea, common in the Web community, that music should be controlled by the people.

On his site he plays only what he wants to play. As he tells listeners, "It's not a democracy."Starting at 7 a.m. most days, Bill Goldsmith is at work in his second-floor office/on-air studio, creating 24 hours' worth of the playlists for which he's become revered by his listeners. ) is mostly an uninterrupted stream of music reflecting Goldsmith's broad tastes. He doesn't shy away from the big hits or big artists, but he's as likely to play an unsigned obscurity as he is to pick something by rock gods such as Led Zeppelin or the Who. And he doesn't stop at rock -- jazz, reggae, classical, electronica, country and world music all find their way into the mix.For many listeners, it's a game to figure out the themes between songs. On Dec. 8, for instance, Goldsmith paid tribute to John Lennon's death by intermixing his favorite Lennon songs with Beatles covers and songs about the death of loved ones, such as "Revelry" by the band Sea Ray. Sometimes it's just a kick to hear such disparate sounds interwoven, loud and soft, old and new.

Several listeners point out the time he followed Bjork with Beethoven, then played AC/DC.Goldsmith remembers FM's golden days well -- he started on the radio in 1971 and spent nearly 30 years playing songs at stations throughout California and Hawaii. As he watched corporations wreak havoc with the freedom radio once enjoyed, he conceived Radio Paradise as his ideal station -- one where he played only music he liked and without commercials cluttering up the mix. When he moved with his wife to Paradise, Calif., in 1999, he decided to act on his dream, launching the Internet-only station in February 2000.While Bill Goldsmith creates the playlists and maintains the website, Rebecca handles the business affairs and sifts through the hundreds of songs submitted by listeners and record labels, passing on to Bill only the music she really likes (usually about 1%).Taking control of the music out of the hands of the listeners in an age of ever-increasing interactivity, when people have come to expect everything on-demand, and to do it all without commercials, is not a business plan the typical Silicon Valley venture capitalist would jump at, but the Goldsmiths are not typical Web entrepreneurs.

As Bill Goldsmith puts it, "We're not noncommercial, we're anti-commercial."The couple is approached almost daily, they said, by companies interested in advertising on the site or on the air. They've turned down every offer. In their view, commercials ruin the listening experience and aren't that effective anyway.As a society "we've gotten pretty numb to advertising," Rebecca Goldsmith says. "Most of it is insulting anyway."Radio Paradise, however, is not a pirate radio station, and royalties must be paid. To keep the songs playing, the Goldsmiths have made the site 100% listener-supported, and listeners are invited to contribute however much they feel is appropriate to keep the operation going. Though money contributions are solicited on-air, listeners are never given a hard sell. It's like public radio without the intensive pledge drives. The Goldsmiths admit they probably won't ever get rich running the station, but it's a labor of love.Due to additional royalty fees imposed on digital broadcasts under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Radio Paradise must pay an estimated three or four times what a typical FM station pays to the recording industry, but, Bill Goldsmith says, "enough people enjoy the station that we can make a living."