Archive for April, 2008

Time to get your placards out: Camden’s famous snooker hall is threatened with closure, as is Docklands’ City Pride pub. The Old Bailey has learned some new tricks: all sorts of extra goodies and historical trials are now available on-line. The people at Moorfields really …

Not content with their squat parties and countryside raves, it seems Britain’s army of hormonal teens have now moved in on our national library. According to a number of novelists and academics, feral undergraduates are apparently abusing those most hallowed seats of learning, the reading …

Saturday’s sun found Londonist in a local park with a well-thumbed paperback and a bottle of Scrumpy, relishing a summer’s worth of idle weekends. Sunday’s inclement weather dashed those dreams, but luckily there’s a wealth of literary diversions to take our mind off things. Tuesday: …

Buttercup Cake Shop 16 St. Alban’s Grove, W8 5BP Nearest Tube: High Street Kensington www.buttercupcakeshop.co.uk 020 7937 1473 Expect to Pay: £2.50 for a cupcake Buttercup Cake Shop is tucked away on a lovely wee side street in the heart of posh Kensington. From the …

The NFL are coming back, the Rugby League Challenge Cup final is a permanent fixture and last week’s announcement of a December 3rd clash at Wembley Stadium between Australia and the Barbarians added Rugby Union to the portfolio of sports staged there since it was …

Here’s an idea. Build temporary cofferdams in historic stretches of the Thames so that archaeologists can really get to work. It’s amazing what you can find beneath a river that’s served a city for 2000 years. Image by M@. Got an idea for a Touch …

In football, as everywhere else in 21st century life, the issue of “local versus global” is coming increasingly to the fore. This week the Birkbeck College Sport Business Centre in Bloomsbury, renowned for its research into the business of sport in general and football in …

This Week In London’s History Monday – 28th April 1801: Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, is born at 24 Grosvenor Square. He would become a noted politician and philanthropist, whose works would be commemorated by the construction of the Shaftesbury Memorial (a.k.a. ‘The Angel …

Hope springs eternal! Yes, spring has sprung at last, and it couldn’t have possibly come sooner. Sure, it’s supposed to rain all week, but at least it’s warm(ish) rain. Get out there and take advantage of the coming season of rebirth, and don’t forget to …

Photo by Cy Goldsbie Torontoist kept its readers in the know during a surprise transit strike—it was announced by the workers’ union just after 11:00 p.m. on Friday night, and went into effect by midnight—with a continually- updated status post. Gothamist readers commented extensively on …