Archive for April, 2007

Or, ‘the things you see in Hoxton’. This unlikely duo were part of the recent performance of Snout, played out around the streets of that shabby area. See more on the Urban Tapestries blog.

Are you related to stabbed PC who died 67 years ago? Students design new police uniform – coloured stripes over shoulder, a bit like old Star Trek. Hatrick of headlines for the rozzers, as plant pot incident launches police chopper. ‘Ridiculous’ totem poles waste money …

Britain’s largest ever property deal has seen HSBC complete the sale of their headquarters at 8 Canada Square, Canary Wharf for a whopping £1.09 billion to Spanish property firm Metrovacesa. HSBC will pay £870 million over the period to Metrovacesa in return for 20 years …

You might recall us raving last year about theatre company Punchdrunk’s performance of Faust in a disused warehouse in Wapping. We loved the way they occupied the whole building, encouraging visitors to wear masks and walk among the actors as they wordlessly played out the …

This weekend the police raided FIRE, London’s biggest gay club – and closed it under the Misue of Drugs Act. The threat of kicking off a Stonewall Riot in the Vauxhall area seemed to have been averted by police tactics of, er, handing out small …

You know, if all of London’s animals just behaved themselves and acted normally, we don’t think Londonist would have half as many posts as we do. Today, we heard that a quartet of cows were caught squatting in a Hatch End suburban house. Four black …

This week, a trip down Whitechapel Road, courtesy of reader Konstantin Binder. His images show the Pavilion theatre and music hall around 100 years ago and – in the modern image – the gaping maw where once it stood. The Pavilion stood at 193 Whitechapel …

This Week In London’s History Monday – 30th April 1999: “London nailbomber” David Copeland plants his last bomb, in the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho. Three people are killed and dozens are injured. Tuesday – 1st May 2000: The May Day anti-capitalism protests bring mass …

Lucky Soul, a band we love so much we’re afraid we’ll be served with an injunction if we gush about them any more, play their biggest gig to date when they headline at Bush Hall on 16th May. Tickets are a bargainous £7 (available online …

This week we’d like to congratulate the -ist network’s Mother Hen, Gothamist’s Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine’s Wired Rave Award. If that doesn’t sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that’s right, the -ist network …