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...that East London neighborhood that led in June to one Muslim's being shot in the shoulder, although nothing was found that led to terrorism-related charges. "I haven't trusted the police for a long time," said Zee, a law student coming out of a mosque in Walthamstow last Friday. "I didn't even trust them before the Forest Gate raid. Just because we're Muslims, we're being targeted...
...Some stay quietly in their studios, recording their surroundings in empty cityscapes haunted by their missing inhabitants, lit by streetlamps, early dawn or winter dusk. Chris Campbell's specialty is car wrecks under a sodium glare. He finds most of his models in the streets around his studio in Walthamstow, in east London. In his "first grand car painting," the car lurks behind a billboard next to a busy road, light falling on the concrete pillars that frame this slice of no-man's-land. Campbell, 27, started painting night and the city while a student at Leeds Metropolitan University...
...talented Australian songwriter and ex-punk Ed Kuepper, and the former bassist for the Jimi Hendrix Experience are featured items in the "latest" issue; the 7" record inside sounds good too. Look for it at In Your Ear, or send f2 to Nick Saloman, Woronzow Records, 75 Melville Rd., Walthamstow, London...
Dvorak: The Stokowski Sound ("New World" Symphony; RCA Red Seal; 2 discs; $6.98). This two-record set of the familiar Symphony No. 9 in E Minor comprises the 92-year-old maestro's 1973 taping at Walthamstow Town Hall outside London with the New Philharmonia and a reissue of the same symphony recorded in 1927 when he led the Philadelphia Orchestra. Both readings are dramatic, reflecting the vigorous personality of the conductor. The new recording differs chiefly in tempo. Even with two repeats omitted in the Scherzo movement, the symphony runs some 5½ minutes longer, with a tediously...
...were held today, Ted Heath's Conservatives would win by a 100-seat landslide. The results of two by-elections supported that statement. In the university town of Cambridge, the Tories recaptured a swing seat from Labor with a massive majority. In the London working-class district of Walthamstow West, once the constituency of former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, the Tory candidate won in a narrow upset. It was the first time that Labor had lost there since...