Archive for July, 2006

This could get interesting: Number plates for bicycles are being considered by the mayor in a bid to improve cycling standards. Ken Livingstone believes bicycles and their owners should be registered so that law-breakers can be caught. Crazy idea? Good idea? We’re not sure… This …

Friday: Club NME: You know we don’t really like Club NME. Maybe we’re being harsh, maybe we’ve just not been in the right mood or maybe we’re just getting old, but every time we’ve been it has seemed to be full of really really drunk …

Join the Village Fete at V & A – for tonight, the museum will be taken over by over 30 creative types who will be running stalls, activities and other village fete style stuff. Tombola, fish and chips, freaky vegetable competitions and body painting will …

This week – CGI cars populate the earth (Cars), stylist sci-fi thriller set in Paris 2054 (Renaissance) and a computer game becomes deadly (Stay Alive) First up, Cars from Pixar, makers of Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Toy Story etc. etc. However, where Pixar’s previous efforts …

Really, it was worth reporting on this story just so we could write this headline wasn’t it? So here it is: Daniel ‘Harry Potter’ Radcliffe

A murder of crows. A shrewdness of apes. A tower of giraffes. A grosvenor of idiots. Residents living near the US embassy in London on Thursday accused British authorities of leaving them vulnerable to a terrorist attack by failing to provide adequate security measures. An …

Our favourite indie girl gone pop Sarah Nixey recently released her 2nd solo single, Strangelove, and we just realised we completely forgot to tell you about it. Fiercer than her inital single, it’s more than reminiscent of SEB and bites and jolts along with a …

We’ve spotted a few of these skeletal monarchs round London lately. The one on the left is in Smithfield, the one on the right is down Hanbury Street and the one below sits on Clerkenwell Road (the Latin motto reads: Canis Servo Regina; Dog Save …

The blackouts in Soho yesterday hit more than 3,000 businesses. Energy comapny EDF are warning that sporadic power outages will likely continue into Friday in the area between Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus. Two men at the centre of the largest gun conversion racket ever …

A week or so ago, we were trundling down Tottenham Court Road underground station dreading the face-sweating levels of heat that were about to hit us when we heard something we thought was rather wonderful. While buskers have got much better since the Underground introduced …