Archive for December, 2004

Everyone loves Topshop it seems. Destiny’s Child and Kylie have already expressed their love for the place and a few weeks ago it won Company magazine’s Best High Street Store Award. Tonight Topshop’s Oxford Circus branch will be even busier than usual as they’re holding …

(Well, we had to use that headline eventually) It seems Londonist just can’t avoid sex today. The BBC has been telling us what a hotbed of raunchy activity Hyde Park was in the Sixties (“In 1962, 61 cases of prostitution, 181 of indecent behaviour and …

Apparently the people at Vice magazine (you remember…we were talking about them only yesterday) have gone and bought themselves a pub. According to reports the magazine has managed to acquire The Old Blue Last on the corner of Great Eastern Street and Curtain road (and …

Remember when it was announced that Kirstie Allsop would be doing guided tours of the Tate Gallery, and we said, “What next? Nigella Lawson presents the Christmas Lectures?” Well we were nearly right. Because tomorrow night you can find Nigella at Somerset House, as a …

Two pictures of Jesus in one day? You can tell it’s getting towards Christmas can’t you. Admittedly this isn’t something you’d send to your gran on a card for the festive season, not unless she’s really up for rallying “against the commercialisation of Christmas” It’s …

You could say that the Evangelical Christian church took a bit of a knock yesterday as one of their preachers was ordered by a High Court Judge to “stop harassing Mormons”. Now, we all know what fun it can be to tease Mormons (and they …

It’s the middle of the week, Wednesday is yet to become the new Thursday so you’ve got bugger all to do, so why not go and watch a real political firebrand in action? Londonist favourite Tony Benn will be at the British Library tonight talking …

With the unnering foresight and keenness of judgment that has made it the magazine of choice for London’s city gents, the Economist has announced that “The London theatre increasingly turns to movie remakes”. This news will of course come as a complete shock to anyone …