Archive for December, 2006

It’s New Years Eve and if like us you’re very bad at making plans more than 12 hours in advance, you might be looking for something to do tonight. Equally if you were planning to go to The Truman Show in Shoreditch then you should …

We’ve interviewed all manner of Londoners in our time – musicians, authors, a strip poker champion… We bring (almost) every interview to a close with the burning inquiry, “What advice would you give to Ken Livingstone?” At the end of 2006, it seems like as …

It’s the time of year that sends compulsive list makers in to a frenzy, and this girl is no exception. It’s the Notes From The City Official 2006 End Of Year Things-That-Laura-Liked Summary – catchy! It’s as much a list of things I really think …

We’re not afraid to say it. We still really really like Lily Allen and Alright Still is up there in our albums of the year list. Yesterday instead of posting about how much she hates The Kooks (you go girl), she posted this message on …

What’s more boring than talking about the weather? Betting on it: Totesport, which has come up with a series of “global warming wagers”, is also offering odds of 50-1 that the Thames Barrier will be breached over the next decade.The company, which thought up the …

Still there? Good. Fingers crossed that the Christmas miracle of not being blown up continues and sees us through to the new year. You’d have thought with the heightened state of emergency that maybe walking along the tube network and finding enough time to fuck …

It might be the holiday season but some of us have just returned from dial-up horror and can barely contain ourselves from attempting to read the whole internet. So, although a little later than some other bloggers we could hardly let this one go without …

Happy Holidays! Chances are, you’re reading this the day after Christmas, back at your day job after all-too-short a holiday, and the last thing you want from us is stuff about the holidays. But that’s just too bad. Because, see, here in the Ist-A-Verse, we …

Week by week, we’ve been building up quite a collection of weird and distorted London imagery as part of our Touch Up London series. You know, the weekly slot where readers photoshop images of London, hopefully to a more impressive standard than the Tate penis …

Whether you’re a tourist looking for alternative sights to see, or a proper Londoner who enjoys poking around the more obscure part of town, you can’t beat London’s historic and bounteous collection of alleyways, snickels and passageways. Over the past few months, Londonist has been …