Archive for January, 2006

We’ve got our new transport chief and the poor bugger’s name is Peter Hendy. Pete is the current director of surface transport (buses) and will start the role in February. Say hello to Pete everybody! A 27-year-old man was arrested on Kensington Church Street yesterday …

End of a Tuesday is almost mid week, and since there’s been a flurry of activity within the Londonist Music inbox, always a sure sign that the music world is shaking off it’s fluffy winter feathers and gearing up for another year of doing damage …

Our second favourite quote of the year so far comes from a nice little story over in the Redbridge local paper today about a bird watcher who was mistaken for an international terrorist. Apparently a ‘twitcher’ described only as “in his 60s” was checking out …

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Once again and at this point to no one’s great surprise, there’s hardly a damn thing occuring on the London literary circuit this week. In …

Back in the 1950s and 1960s, the London Palladium was a source of comedy, dance and variety, hosting mainly the ITV variety show Sunday Night At the London Palladium. Over the last few years, it became the home of various very creepy looking ‘child-catchers’ such …

A new play written for and about the Beaumont Estate in Leyton, East London will be performed in one of the estate’s blocks of flats just weeks before it is due to be torn down. As the 2012 Olympics creep closer, the skyline and architecture …

That’s not sarcasm, we mean it most sincerely. So sincerely in fact that we’re going to write it again… in capital letters. GOD BLESS GEORGE GALLOWAY. Amen to that. Why do we love George so much? Well for a start if it weren’t for George …

Expect an increase in the number of headphones appearing on regular bus users to help drown out the dead robotic voice of fate… Visually impaired people should find London’s buses easier to use if plans to introduce next stop announcements prove successful. The system, similar …

The two men who stabbed a 31-year-old man to death last Thursday had mugged an other man sitting on Kensal Green Tueb platform just 30 minutes previously. A 47-year-old banker who was suspended by HBOS has launched a £10 million action against her employer, claimign …

The time has come. The waiting is over. Desperate Housewives (Wed 10pm C4) is back, and are we ever excited. We’ll trot out the tired old cliché about how its acid-bright façade hides a surprisingly black heart because, hell, it’s true; something is rotten in …