Archive for January, 2005

As far as running into problems on a film set go its no Apocalypse Now, but amateur film makers Vincent Tempest and Adam Young managed to at least bring the local constabulary out in force in search of a dumped body. Members of the Finchley …

As much as we’d like to, we can’t really take the piss out of Heart FM because we never listen to it (we make it a rule never to listen to stations named after organs of the body). But after today it might be a …

This weekend the average Joe Londoner has a unique opportunity to take a glimpse at the behind-the-scenes world of the people who govern their city. Ok, so maybe we’re making this sound a little more exciting than it is actually is, but the opportunity to …

The award-winning Zaha Hadid was today announced as the designer of London’s Olympic Aquatics Centre. Which may or may not be the plain old London Aquatics Centre, depending on whether we get the 2012 Olympics. Either way, it will be built. The building looks very …

FA Cup Fourth Round weekend then. Traditionally a round where cup upsets are still very much on the cards. And when Gary Johnson’s merry band of cup giantkillers rode into South East London, there were many who were rubbing their hands with glee at the …

As Londonist sat down to our Monday morning coffee and reading of the (internet-based) newspaper, something struck our eye: Paris culture police pull the plug on l’anglais chic. We were expecting some hot article about an English designer gone astray at Paris Fashion Week but …

It’s not just anyone that can turn an eccentricity into a possible career but Dr Roger Green has managed to parlay his penchant for hanging around M25 motorway service stations into an honest to god book. Inspired after a visit to South Mimms services on …

The Guardian this morning tells us something we didn’t know about the Circle line: “There is a group of activists that stages knit-ins on the London Underground, occupying a carriage and knitting around the Circle line.” This fantastic little nugget of knitting trivia comes from …

A twelve-year-old boy from Highgate has put himself right up there for the title of London’s nerdiest resident after he found five errors in the latest edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Lucian George (even his name is a bit nerdy) wrote to the editors of …

As Londonist gets older, toys seem to get stranger. Of course, there was nothing inherently “normal” about the space hopper, but the hot toy for 2005 is apparently going to be … edible insects. No, not insect-shaped sweets or anything sane like that. Real insects. …