Archive for January, 2008

Ever controversial, the Stop and Search policy looks set to be reintroduced. Mugged cyclist says yah-boo-sucks to her attackers. Beadle’s not about any more. Say what you will, he made this Londonist smile. Hungry hoodies’ Hawaiian heist. (Actually, it may have been a Napoli with …

Book-lovers will be checking out a unique new venue on Saturday [2 Feb]: St James Street Open-Air Library in Walthamstow. No payment, no tickets – just bring as many books as you like, and swap them. Fab, but Brrrrrr. Its hours are brief; from 1-3pm …

One of Banksy’s most famous stencils – the maid of Chalk Farm – got an augmentation this week. Some japester of a joiner added a mantelpiece on Sunday evening. But street art is the most ephemeral of mediums, and the rogue fitting was removed faster …

“Y’all are making Brighton seem like where the party’s at”, yells DJ Big Whiz from behind the decks. The roar of protest from the crowd, packed tightly underneath Cargo’s Victorian arches so movement is reduced to peristalsis-like shuffles, is the desired response: Londoners don’t take …

Strictly Come Dancing may be but a glitzy, Christmas twinkle in the memory banks but for all of you that fell in love once more with the heat and hustle of the latin section, Samba Dance Club night at Sadlers Wells is something you need …

Words: useful little critters, no? Without them we’d be, well, a lot of things, but most certainly out of a job. From puns to poetry, improv to irony, books to blogs, we pretty much revel in all that language has to offer. But no, we …

We haven’t got outside today but from this Londonist perch it’s looking and sounding like the harbingers of Armageddon are wreaking their dirty havoc on us. Yet, whilst one old lady just walked past with an inside-out umbrella held defiantly above her rain-bonnetted, anoraked, stumbling …

2008 is Beijing’s Olympic year so we’re expecting plenty of 2012 related news, rumblings and international comparisons bouncing round the internet. On the last day of January, our Games have already made the headlines 3 times this week: When overall costs trebled at the end …

Daily Candy tweaks its culinary repertoire at a secret cooking class in Clerkenwell. Slonik at Edible London visits the Malmaison-ized Fox and Anchor twice in one week! An American in London checks out Crazy Homies in Notting Hill (she’d go back but …) Posting for …

Brian Haw arrests 24,000 police for protesting at Westminster. Prisons in London are less popular than ever. We learn the costs of free travel for kids. A touch of glass is coming to South London: Crystal Palace is soon to rise again. Pilot finds God …