Archive for November, 2005

There’s a good little article in today’s Guardian on Ken’s recent comments regarding the London Development Agency‘s decision to use a compulsory purchase order to secure the property needed for the development of the Olympic Village. During his weekly press briefing yesterday Ken got a …

Tommy Lee’s in town. Don’t worry about your other daughters though, he’s left the rest of the Crue behind. Strange things are going on in the space within Lee’s cranium known as Tommyland. Not only is he over here promoting his utterly bollocks new single, …

Another test for Tony Blair today as MPs vote on whether it’s a good idea to throw out laws that have stood for 300 years, helped define us as a democracy and give each and every one us the right to avoid imprisonment without trial. …

- The Austrailian press is reporting that the explosives seized in a raid in Sydney are the same as those used in the London bombings. It’s called, believe it or not, Mother of Satan. – The budget for the Stansted airport renovation is £4 billion. …

If you leave for work early enough and stay until after 5 there’s a good chance you’re not seeing much of the sun at the moment so we’d like to take your mind off all that by suggesting you watch a film set almost entirely …

After a tearful Popstarz on Friday, Londonist had a very operatic weekend, with the premiere of Anthony Minghella’s new staging of Madame Butterfly at the English National Opera on Saturday, and Opera Rara‘s one-off unstaged performance of Donizetti’s Il diluvio universale on Saturday. This is …

It took Westminster Council long enough but they’ve finally relented and changed their policy on the displaying of rainbow flags in Soho. This whole thing kicked off back in January of this year when pubs in Soho were ordered to remove their flags on the …

There comes a point in every child’s life when they look upon the toys they once cherished and decide that they’ve outgrown them. We’ve all done it: Star Wars figures given away to ungrateful siblings; Action Men forced to retire and return to civilian life; …

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Hello? Publishing World? Did you go on a collective vacation this week? Did all of your printers go on strike at the same time? Did …

If ever there was an excuse to buy a new TV for the wife/partner/dog this Christmas then here it is. The BBC has announced it is to begin to test High Definition TV on digital terrestrial TV in London in the next few months. For …