Archive for October, 2006

The trial of the City lawyer who was stabbed outside Kensal Green underground starts today and already we’ve learned his attackers used his phone to call their girlfriends. Also on trial today: Three 17-year-olds and a 15-year-old, accused of murdering Zainab Kalokoh during a christening …

nic0‘s Looking hole gives us yet another way to see London – or at least Battersea Power Station. In the thumbnail drifting along the Londonist Flickr stream it looked like someone was peering through binoculars, but blown up it gives a nice masked vigilante feel… …

Nothing like a bit of British can do attitude to make you smile, even if this particular story ended in failure: Train passengers were left startled when they were asked if they could fix a fault on their broken down train… The train had a …

It’s been a few months since we delved into the world of comedy when back in the summer we spoke to Richard Herring and comedy troupe The Cowards. This time round we’ve been talking to comedy writer, performer and former blogger James Bachman. We first …

Shoreditch may not have a tube station any more but it still has tube trains. Well… two tube carriages, to be accurate. As with anything in Shoreditch that stands still for more than two minutes, the two tube carriages we mentioned have been taken over …

Well, it was only a matter of time before someone thought of this one. An act of motorcycle death defiance on Tower Bridge, as imagined by Ben Partridge. The campaign starts here to make this a candidate demonstration sport for the 2012 Olympics. Keep sending …

If you walked past the Tate Modern on any weekend this summer, it is likely that you saw the eccentric Budgieman and his performing budgies. Londonist caught up with him to ask him about his budgies and what they do over the winter, his plans …

Tsingtao‘s London is how we expect Alex to look once he’s dragged himself over the finish line of the New York City Marathon on November 5th.

City of London Police have released CCTV footage of a man swimming in the Thames. Never a good idea that, but this guy ended up in the water after jumping from London Bridge: He is believed to have leapt 40ft off London Bridge in central …

One for the diary: Masked Mexican Wrestlers attend book signing in Borders, Oxford Circus: Thursday 2nd November, 12 – 2PM. And why are masked Mexican wrestlers coming to Borders? Well, it’s to mark the publication of photographer Malcolm Venville’s new book Lucha Loco, which documents …