Archive for August, 2006

It might sound like a stereotypical thing to say, but really, really, it is very hard to find a girl who doesn’t love Dirty Dancing with all her heart, or at the very least like it enough to watch it whenever they’ve got time. If …

As you can imagine, we get a fair few e-mails to the Londonist Music mailbox asking us if we’ll plug something so it takes something pretty special to make us sit up and pay attention. “Just wondering if you might be able to mention the …

Wow, how did we miss this? On August 19th, 2006 the Paddy Power World Strip Poker Championship will take place at Café Royal, London. At this event we will attempt to set a world record for the largest strip poker tournament. People will play No …

It’s the final two pairs of tickets up for grabs for the Film4 Somerset House Season today, and we’ll be picking the winners by 5pm tonight. Everyone we’ve sent along so far seems to have had a great time, with the only complaint being snogging …

London can be a depressing place, as these images atest. Left to right: Spitalfields, Southwark, Notting Hill. As a maudlin competition for a rainy Friday afternoon, we’d like to know the most disheartening piece of scrawl you’ve ever seen on the streets of London. Have …

As the curtain comes up on the Premiership at White Hart Lane tonight, newcomers Watford are busy trying to persuade some experienced hands to come and join them at the outset of their Premiership adventure. We thought we’d take a look at what our clubs …

Bomb plot latest: police have found “a suitcase containing items which could be used to construct a bomb,” in a piece of land in High Wycombe. An elderly passenger who travelled from Lincoln to London on a National Express coach (a four hour journey) has …

With all the news of bomb plots and terrorist alerts over the past week, it’s easy to forget that there are some innocent, vulnerable, mildly famous people out there who just aren’t equipped to deal with all the stress. Take Bob Hoskins for example: Bob …

Those who maintain that South London really isn’t a bit shit have a new and unexpected ally. Aliens. They can’t get enough of the place. Gobsmacked witnesses watched on in amazement as two sets of bright orange lights flew eerily in formation through the skies …

It’s not every day we get to write a headline like that so we just had to bring your attention to this story: A looted ancient Peruvian headdress considered of key importance to the country’s cultural heritage has been seized from a lawyer’s office in …