Archive for February, 2007

Mayor Ken has blockaded himself inside a safe house in the country. Why? To escape the hired goons that Shell and BP and Texaco are sending around to break his kneecaps. Ken has signed a deal with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to receive oil relief …

Sadlers Wells’ annual Flamenco Festival brings a whirligig of colour, passion, drama, guitars, stamping and really big flouncy dresses to London between 23 Feb and 3 Mar in a welcome bid to remind us of sultry hot days and sunny Spanish sexiness. Highlights of this …

The C-Charge in this case stands for “Crazy Charge” and while there is moaning about the current £8.00 fee from drivers sitting in traffic jams across the city (especially in the west this week…), spare a thought for the poor chap who had to pay …

Yahoo! News: The bodies of a 29-year-old woman, a 49-year-old man and a four month old baby have been found in a house in east London. They were discovered by Scotland Yard officers at a flat in Birchdown House, Devons Road in Bow on Monday …

Housing in London is very expensive indeed. In fact it’s so expensive indeed that Londonist HQ is imaginary and we all live in Derby. However, thank your lucky charms that you aren’t a lowly wannabe Argentinian farmer. He may not have to pay the congestion …

Things have moved on since 1977 when Spielberg got the world in a tiz over close encounters of the third kind. These days we can go all the way up to five: First kind: A sighting of one or more unidentified flying objects Second kind: …

London. Truly a world-class city. Please send any distorted imagery of the capital to londonist – at – gmail – dot – com.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger added to his recent complaint about cup replays with some further stern words aimed in the direction of London rivals Chelsea and their just announced £80m operating loss for the most recent accounting year: They have a super sponsor. With normal …

The congestion zone, bloated and gorged on the wallets of London motorists, finally loosened its belt this morning. A doubling of girth was observed in the ensuing westerly bloat, which takes in some of London’s richest inhabitants. Fans of JG Ballard will be intrigued to …

tube by pfig. Part of a whole set of brilliant underground shots.