Archive for October, 2006

Two arrests have been made following the Elephant & Castle shooting we told you about yesterday. The Olympics will ‘eliminate child povery’ according to Gordon Brown and Ken Livingstone. Thames Water has been sold for £8bn to Australian banking group Macquarie. Let’s hope they can …

We like ours with sauce here at the Londonist, and shakin’ their maracas and booties like streetwalkers in a Miami Vice musical, South London homies Hot Chip served it up thick at their biggest headliner to date last week at the slowly crumbling Astoria. Surprisingly, …

Remember the Vauxhall Zafira? It had seven seats but then you could go crazy and have just two, or five, and they wiggled around into all sorts of positions. A dogger’s dream (we assume). It seems the new olympic stadium may have a similar arrangement. …

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you’d like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Wednesday The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghoutir has fourteen books under his belt and has been described by Edward Said as “one of the finest existential …

If you’ve ever been anywhere in EC1 on a Friday or Saturday night then you’re sure to have been asked a million times where Fabric is. Right opposite the back of Smithfield’s Meat Market, the former meat cellar has been doing a stirling trade since …

This is why we love London so much. Had someone sent this image in a few weeks ago, we’d have assumed that those curly slides were a bit of photoshoppery in their own right. But they are, of course, real. It’s not enough for reader …

There’s no better way to kick off a Tuesday morning than with a headline like LL Cool J’s Trouser Shame. Yes, according to this article, if you were at Brixton Academy last Friday to see ‘Ladies Love’ you might have got more than you bargained …

Whenever we travel we try our best to forget about London – as much as we love the city it is nice from time to time to escape the daily grind, the Standard’s doom & gloom and the unpredictable weather. But London is everywhere. Even …

The 16-year old on trial for the murder of 15-year-old Kiyan Prince outside the boy’s school gates has denied murder but admitted manslaughter. Two men were shot outside a club in Elephant and Castle in the early hours of Sunday morning. One is in a …

The London Assembly has a new report showing that there’s a lot more helicopters hovering over the city than there used to be: The study highlights Londoners’ growing concern about helicopters adding to the “misery” of airplane noise. It wants to introduce a charge for …