The restoration of the West Front of St Paul’s Cathedral is at last complete and the scaffolding has come down. This returns to the capital one of its most delightful prospects, the view down Ludgate Hill towards St Paul’s, and means that visitors will at …
Pete Doherty apparently turned up at the XFM Winter Wonderland last night and by all accounts, the word ‘shambles’ was entirely appropriate. If you’d rather not feel like an ambulance-chaser when watching a band on stage, try this lot: Monday 6th Londonist favourites The Pipettes …
Is the site of somebody cycling while talking on their mobile phone a common site in the capital? Londonist can’t remember having ever seen anyone even attempting such an audacious feat, but apparently it’s so much of a problem that the Tories are tabling an …
Londonist is a little overexcited about Channel 4′s new series The Heist which starts tomorrow. The premise of assembling “a gang of authentic criminal masterminds to attempt the perfect crime.” sounds right up our street, but, as usual with these types of things, reality is …
In a move which has nothing to do with tax breaks or the fact the the English public are a lot less forgiving of past indiscretions than the Yanks seem to be, Christian Slater has become the latest Hollywood star to turn his back on …
Slandered and now vindicated, MP George Galloway, is coming to London to stick it to the pro-war New-Labourites. Mustachioed Galloway is set to contest the seat of Bethnal Green, the home of Pro-War Labour MP Oona King, in Londons East end. Thrown out of the …
London has more corners, and secrets, than anyone could imagine; every now and then, visionaries latch onto one neglected aspect of it and bring it to general attention, in the process transforming our view of the city we thought we knew so well. Of late, …
Nighty Night “You see I’m very talented Don. I can open my mouth really wide and then close it really tight“ Apologies to people who haven’t got non terrestrial TV or access to Freeview, but you are missing a gem in the blackest of black …
The first tentative predictions for a white Christmas in London are starting to come through. The Weather Action website is predicting a 50/50 chance of snow in the capital on Christmas Day…so either it will or it won’t then. Great. William Hill are not so …
A bit of a boring week for film reviews this week, with pretty much three stars across the board for every major release. The only thing that comes anywhere near ‘exciting’ is Peter Bradshaw’s four star review of The Merchant of Venice in the Guardian. …
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