Archive for November, 2006

We love a bit of luxury scotch. OK…we love a bit of no-more-than-£25 scotch. We can only dream the dram that costs £100. And then there’s this. A bottle of whisky sold at auction for almost £15,000. The Glenavon Special Liqueur Whisky is believed to …

One of Londonist’s reads of the year, The Meaning of Night (partly set in Victorian London), is up for the prestigious Costa Award (formerly the Whitbread Award, and nothing to do with TMON being hot, satisfying, available on every high street but spectacularly over-priced). Author …

Handbags at dawn! It’s like Jay-Z and Nas all over again. Beef alert – this time with David and Ken. The deeds have been signed – Battersea Power Station has been sold to an Irish company. Is Bloombury going to be getting a makeover! Plans …

The Big Chill is a multi-media festival, bar, club event, record label and lifestyle “dedicated to transforming the spirit of our times”… and they’re taking over Tate Britain for the monthly Late at Tate. DJs will play live sets dotted around the artworks, there’s a …

stpiduko‘s untitled pic just shows how dangerous these streets can be. After a similar feathered mugging we now always carry half a loaf of Hovis with us when on foot in the capital. Don’t argue with them, don’t expect anyone else to help… just hand …

“Can we turn the lights red?” asked Nouvelle Vague singer Phoebe Killdeer during last Saturday’s concert at the Bloomsbury Ballroom. “Deep red, passionate red, blood red,” she intoned melodramatically. As the lights stayed candy pink, she replied gothically, “…or pink will do”. The quip characterises …

Iain Hollingshead has won an esteemed literary award with his first novel: Iain Hollingshead has won the Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2006 with his first novel Twenty Something. Now in its 14th year, the award is given to the passage considered to …

17. Shepherd Market Where? A little north-east of fragrant Hyde Park Corner. Built on the site of the ancient May Fairs, after which the wider area is named. What? A charming conglomeration of pokey eateries, thrusting awnings and cluttered passages, all colleced under the one …

QPR 1 Sunderland 2 Loftus Road Tuesday 28th November, 2006 Tuesday night in Shepherd’s Bush saw a duel between two recently installed Championship managers dealing with the burden of great expectations. Former Manchester United and Republic of Ireland superstar Roy Keane had been in charge …

The radiation poisoning story certainly has a long half-life and shows no signs of slowing down. Now BA have had to ground aircraft after finding traces of radiation on board: British Airways discovered traces of radiation on two of its aircraft flying to Moscow when …