Archive for June, 2008

The last Friday of every month the function room at St. Aloysius Social Club is given over to the club night Tapestry. Music spanning genres and decades fills the comfortable church basement and bands take to the low, streamer strewn stage, and for a few …

It would seem Jay-Z is a tad partial to London’s casinos. Londonist rather hopes that he doesn’t start to rap about crap. Two men have died in an apparently suspicious fire at flats in New Cross. Your council really is rolling in extorted PCN money. …

Where do Britons go when, in Christina Aguilera’s parlance, they want to get dirrty? (We’ll give you one guess.) Adding to its ever accumulating pile of accolades, London, according to a poll conducted by hotel site HRS.com, is the preferred destination for dirty weekends away. …

Mwhahaha. The Book Grocer rubs her hands together greedily as she contemplates the week ahead. Festival season kicks off this week, and its offerings may be summarised with one word: excellent. Tuesday: VS Naipaul fans will want to head to Daunt Books tonight to hear …

Their debut album may not have sold billions, but Carl Barat is plowing on with his post Libertines band, Dirty Pretty Things, as they return tonight fresh from the glow of the Glastonbury Festival. Celebrating the release of their 2nd album ‘Romance At Short Notice’, …

Long a feature of the New York summer, yesterday saw crowds estimated at 45,000 turn out for London’s first Salute to Israel, held to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Jewish state / tragedy of the Palestinian people / bungling British withdrawal …

Whilst we’re none too happy about the new tube ads we’re completely charmed that public transport advertising can have a positive, life changing outcome. Baby Katy might not have been born were it not for her parents-to-be investing £2000 in bus ads, asking for an …

As of today, giant cinema-style screens have been installed opposite platforms at Piccadilly Circus, Euston, Bank, Liverpool Street and Bond Street stations to bombard you with cutting-edge advertising intended to ‘enhance’ your journey. The system, called XTP, is centrally controlled so that advertising folk can …

Here’s week four of our Edinburgh Festival preview recommendations. This isn’t just a random list of events scraped from listings magazines and press releases – this is a genuine list of acts we adore, and that you should definitely see, especially while the price is …

This Week In London’s History Monday – 30th June 1894: Tower Bridge is opened by the Prince of Wales. It would become an iconic symbol of London, and arguably the most well-recognised ‘bascule bridge’ in the world (even if tourists do sometime mistake it for …