The police have been called in, and a full investigation has been launched this morning, to discover how the personal details of the entire BBC Olympic staff have gone missing from a private office within Television Centre. Details of hotel bookings, addresses, photographs and the …
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Nobody likes traffic, do they? Especially not Madonna, who is apparently taking as a personal affront to musicians trying to make their gigs in the congestion zone. In an interview with Q magazine, the Britified American said, “I would make it so that young musicians, …
Right old hou-ha on T5 Day1. Technical hitches and delays made a less than favourable impression, although the threatened flash mobbing was replaced by a peaceful environmental protest. The new owners of Covent Garden would appear to be philistines. OK, maybe that’s a bit strong. …
Some people are old before their time. Others are always young at heart. Yet others don’t know how to act their age and instead of retiring quietly and fading into the background, decide to form an elderly arts group and go on tour with a …
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, proud resident of the handsome World Heritage-listed site that gazes imperiously across the River at the Mammon-fuelled glazed monstrosities of Canary Wharf, today has even more reason to be puffed up with pride. An Israeli billionaire has donated £20 …
Yesterday, Leicester Square was overrun by pigeons. And no, they weren’t trying to dispute their 6th-most-populous-garden-bird ranking from yesterday. Best of all, nobody had to run screaming with paper bags held over their heads because these birds were paper. The 5,000 origami pigeons were part …
London theatre is highly regarded around the world for its resilience, its resourcefulness and downright refusal to stop for anyone or anything. Even during the Blitz, the show went on and so it did when a power cut in the West End disrupted the opening …
Every so often we spend hours getting lost in social networking sites and when it’s new bands we’re after we turn to myspace. This is how we came across the gentle twinkles of Synth Girl. Mainly a musician for other artists, we loved ‘Hurricane Butterfly’ …
Libraries and whores are not natural bedfellows. Yet in the Wellcome Library on Euston Road you can work your way though more loose women than Genghis Khan on his gap year. The centre holds the world’s foremost collection of tart cards — those colourful adverts …
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