Archive for March, 2008

The police are still at it. Naughty use of credit cards that is. You’d think they’d’ve learned, having already featured on the Londonist rogues’ gallery. Time to start getting your act together, Team T5. It’s gone beyond a (early April Fools) joke. A woman has …

April already? How did that happen? We feel the best way to avoid getting April Fooled is to stay in and watch some TV. Here are a few things you may want to take a peek at! On TV, Londonist likes: Monday, 31 March Poppy …

Kevin Spacey today hijacked his own promo for new gambling film 21 to slam the BBC for giving certain West End musicals 13 weeks of free publicity disguised as reality TV shows. Whilst recognising that they helped promote West End theatre in general he’s clearly …

Evidence was presented this weekend that the East London Line hasn’t been forgotten when the promised works manifested themselves in the form of a really big crane hoisting in a really big bridge over Shoreditch. The 35m bow-string bridge (the same design as in Haggerston) …

Oh come all ye faithful… if you can fit into the building, that is. It seems that London churches are experiencing a bit of a squish, and not in our grand cathedrals — those are merely full of tourists — but in Evangelical and Pentecostal …

Dispensing with the (attempts at) witty chitchat this week and diving right in… Monday: Still time to get tickets for the Last Tuesday Society’s Hendrick’s Cocktail Party tonight. And should you wonder what tenuous connection we’re trying to make between gin and literature (we won’t …

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Another entry from Roll the Dice, showing a cunning method of crossing Tower Bridge without being stopped by tourists. Check out more Touch Ups in our archive and, if you feel inspired, send in your own photoshopped imagery of the capital to londonist – at …

This Week In London’s History Monday – 31st March 1990: Violence erupts as hundreds of thousands of anti-poll-tax protesters take to the streets in the West End. An estimated £400,000 of damage is caused to property as cars are overturned and set alight. Hundreds of …

After last year’s popular pre-season game between the Boston Celtics and the Minnesota Timberwolves at the O2 arena, the NBA are coming back and this time the Heat are on. They’ll be practicing with some Nets as the teams from Miami and New Jersey face …